Summer Sessions in Gender/Sex/uality In/Justice
Much of current gender/sex/uality science is flawed because it relies on biased and oppressive assumptions, knowledge, and frameworks. We are motivated to think and act critically and progressively about the ways these larger oppressive systems impact and are built into our field, and how we might work to create change towards better and more liberatory approaches.
Our goals are to (a) build/create/sustain meaningful opportunities for engagement with research about/with/on gender/sex/uality that is situated within (b) feminist and/or queer lenses with (c) critiques of normative systems and mechanisms of oppression and/or explorations of progressive flourishing that intersect with gender/sex/uality and (d) work towards community building, education/growth/learning, community relevance, social change, and more empirical and just understandings of gender/sex/uality.
Current Summer Session
This summer, 2026, we will be holding our 5th Annual Summer Session: "Stem the Tide: Trans Studies Against Authoritarianism". Applications are open now! Click here for more information!
Past Summer Sessions
- 1st Summer Session, 2021: Relating against the state: Decolonial and anti-imperialist approaches to gender/sex/uality
- 2nd Summer Session, 2022: Feminist transformative practices in research: Decolonial, Indigenous, and intersectional approaches to gender/sex/uality in/justice
- 3rd Summer Session, 2023: The Body and the double bind: Sex/ual/ized stigmatization, oppression, and resistance
- 4th Summer Session, 2024: Black Feminisms & Sex/uality Studies
Organizer
- Sari van Anders, Canada Research Chair in Gender/Sex and Sexual Diversity; Canada 150 Research Chair Laureate; Professor of Psychology, Gender Studies, & Neuroscience; ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.
The cost to attend is free. Funded by Dr. Sari van Anders' Canada Research Chair in Gender/Sex and Sexual Diversity and, at various points: Dr. van Anders' Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology, Sexuality, and Gender/Sex, the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Indigenization Fund from the Faculty of Arts & Science at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥; the Department of Psychology Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, and the Small-Scale Events Advancing SPSSI (the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) Fund. Questions? Contact vananders.labcoordinator @ queensu.ca (remove the space before/after the @) with any questions. If they can't answer, they will forward the question to Dr. van Anders as appropriate.