Department of Gender Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

Thursday, April 9 at 7 p.m. | Novel Idea

Join Mollie Cronin, Queen’s Gender Studies MA graduate and current Ph.D. candidate at York University in conversation with Naleena Velji (Queen’s GNDS Ph.D. student) at Novel Idea about Mollie’s new book, "Future Me is Fat" — a fat girl’s time-travel escapades through space, time, and diet culture. Told through sci-fi and autofiction, our heroine visits past selves, family histories, and distant futures to confront diet and body trends for some big fat adventures of her own.

Mollie Cronin is a cartoonist from Halifax, NS, and Fredericton, NB. Since 2015, Cronin has been creating comics and illustrations under the name Art Brat Comics, where she tersely tackles modern dating, fatphobia, and gender dynamics. Her work has appeared on Hulu’s "Shrill", as illustrations in books such as Molly Forbes’ "Every Body" (2023), as tattoos, and as a monthly strip comic in an alt-weekly. Cronin has taught several comic courses in the extended studies program at NSCAD and has lectured at Dalhousie, U of T, and Queen’s. She holds a BA in Art History from NSCAD University (2015), and an MA in Gender Studies from Queen’s University (2024). She is currently living in Toronto where she is a PHD candidate at York. This is the first book of Cronin’s comics.

The Department of Gender Studies is hiring Term Adjuncts and Teaching Fellows for the 2026–27 academic year! The deadline to apply is April 30. Please visit our website for more information on how to apply.

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On Wednesday, March 25, Dr. Natalie Kouri Towe will be joining us from Concordia University to discuss the weaponization of safety in education and how to combat it with a transformative feminist approach. Please register for this talk at bit.ly/sxgd2026!

It's Majors Night! Join our amazing Department of Gender Studies Student Council (DSC) representatives at Grant Hall from now until 7 p.m. and decide if a program in Gender Studies and/or Black Studies is right for you. ✨📝

Gender Matters: Sommer Knight & Mayah Palmer
Racialized Health Disparities in Clinical Psychology
Date: Wednesday, February 25
Time: 12–1 p.m.
Location: Sutherland Hall 448
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1982356390327
Light refreshments will be served.

Please join the Black Studies program in partnership with the Kingston Frontenac Public Library for the kick off the program’s Black Histories and Futures month events, a screening and discussion of the documentary, Our Dance of Revolution. Tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. KFPL Central Branch (130 Johnson St.). Refreshments from Sally’s Roti will be served. See you there!

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we have moved the SXGD annual lecture to March 25. Thank you for your understanding.

The annual SXGD lecture is this Wednesday!

Join us on January 28 for a discussion with Dr. Natalie Kouri-Towe on the carceral university and feminist responses to it.

Lunch will be served after the lecture. Register ahead of time on our Eventbrite page: https://bit.ly/sxgd26.

Gender Matters Speaker Series
Artist Talk: Iman Datoo
🗣️ kinnomics: story-ing repair from garden to mine to plantation
🗓️ Wednesday, November 26
🕛 12–1pm
📍 Registration link: bit.ly/gm-nov26
Reception to follow.

At the centre of Iman’s work is “kinnomics”, a transitional framework that shifts thinking away from an economics of commodification toward making kin with overlooked care-workers and labourers, foregrounding an intimate planetary existence in which the human is never at the centre but constantly embroiled in relation. She understands the imaginary not as a place of escape but as a liminal zone, where alternative values and ways of being can be improvised and practiced through stories of repair.

Save the date for our webinar on the graduate program in Gender Studies! November 7, 2025 and January 5, 2026.

The Gender Studies MA and PhD programs teach critical race, gender and sexuality studies and their applications within work for social change. As an interdisciplinary field, Gender Studies helps students take up social science, humanities, arts, and natural science methods and connect them to produce innovative new knowledge. Graduates of the MA and PhD in Gender Studies at Queen’s work in such fields as education, health, law, public policy, social research, social work, media, art and community organizing. Gender Studies prepares students for both academic and nonacademic careers.

Find out more at one of our virtual information sessions:
November 7, 2025, 1pm ET | Registration link: https://bit.ly/gndsgrad-jan2026
January 5, 2026, 1pm ET | Registration link: https://bit.ly/gndsgrad-nov2025
Check out our website: https://www.queensu.ca/gnds/graduate/how-to-apply

If you have any questions about the program, please contact [email protected].

The Department of Gender Studies is extending the deadline for the Teaching Fellowship position in GNDS 480 Feminism & Economic Justice to August 6, 2025. This is a Winter 2026 course held on Thursdays from 8:30–11:30 a.m. For more details, please visit: https://www.queensu.ca/gnds/teaching-opportunities-gender-studies-teaching-fellowships-2025-26.