Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Alberta

UPCOMING EVENT!

Mark your calendars for this year’s Galentine’s Day Lecture, “Love Machine: Q***r Encounters with the In/Human Robotic Kind” by Dr. Lara Karaian!

February 13th 2026, 3:00 pm MST

326, Arts and Convocation Hall or via Zoom.

For more information visit the link in our bio labeled Feminist Research Speaker Series (FRSS). Can’t wait to see you there!

UPCOMING EVENT!
Don’t miss our next speaker of the Feminist Research Speaker Series: Dr. Tracey Jane Nicholls

Join us January 30th, 2026 at 3:00 pm MST for “Online Misogyny: An Expulsion Project”

More information, including zoom link, can be found using the link in our bio!

Presenting…. Professor PB Berge!!! Learn a little about them and check out some of their recent publications below!

Berge, PB. 2025. “Anti-Games, Fantasy Consoles, and the Rise of Speculative Game Development on Itch.Io.” Paper presented at FDG ’25. Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games ’25 Conference., April. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723498.3723739.

Berge, PB, and Madison Schmalzer. “‘I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as GC’: Gender Critical Storytelling, Radicalization, and Discursive Practice on Ovarit and Mumsnet,” Bulletin for Applied Transgender Studies. Special Issue: Dynamics of Transphobic Content and Disinformation, 2025. https://doi.org/10.57814/WJD7-W023.

Berge, PB, and Madison Schmalzer. “Un-Moving Play and the End of Time: Code Injections and the Trans Abrogation of Media Objects.” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 5 (2025): 343–66. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.18261332.0064.515.

You won’t want to miss this!

A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of s*x workers to feminist struggle.

As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil, s*x workers have taken to the streets in solidarity—despite the fact that mainstream feminist discourse positions s*x work, and the “putas” who enact it, as detrimental to women’s rights. In Putafeminista, activist and s*x worker Monique Prada calls for feminists to retire this hypocrisy and embrace putafeminism: a working class women’s movement that rejects whorephobia and its classist, colonial dimensions.

Drawing on her firsthand experiences with s*x work and movement building, Prada argues for the validity of s*x work as feminist labor and tracks the innovations introduced by Brazilian s*x workers to feminist internet discourse, street actions, and governmental advocacy. For readers seeking the glimmers of tomorrow’s feminism, Prada places that future with putafeminists, naming the brothel a “final frontier” for all women to gather, reform, and revolt.

Join us: November 27th at 2:00 pm, online via Zoom.
Find the zoom link in our bio under “Feminist Research Speakers Series”.

Make sure to put the Dallas Cullen Memorial Lecture in your calendar, you won't want to miss it!

Nov 20th 2:00-4:30pm

For more information, go to uab.ca/dcml

The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy is coming to Edmonton. Our own Lana Whiskeyjack and other amazing feminists will be featured.