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GenderFugeResponsibization in the Canadian jails and prisonsAshley Avery is a queer feminist, advocate, mother, and poet. She is currently the executive director of Coverdale Courtwork Society, a non-profit community-based organization that provides support to women and gender diverse people who are involved in the criminal justice system. She holds an Honours Diploma in Social Service Work from Seneca College as well as a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Women’s Studies from Mount Saint Vincent University. Ashley is also in Graduate school, studying for a Masters in Women & Gender Studies under the supervision of El Jones and Dr. Rachel Zellers. In 2020, her work to support th...2021-04-081h 05GenderFugeWomen's Weightlifting with Amanda ThompsonStudents have contributed the questions which I will ask today's guest, Amanda Thompson, based on their readings of course materials including the classic feminist phenomenological article “Throwing Like a Girl,” by Iris Marion Young.
Amanda is a Chartered Professional Coach in Olympic Weightlifting. Amanda is NCCP Competition Development Certified in Weightlifting, as well as an NCCP Learning Facilitator and Coach Evaluator, among other fitness related certifications. She sits as the VP Administration for our PSO (provincial sport organization) the NS Weightlifting Association. Through Amanda’s club, the Hubtown Weightlifting Club, she has produced National level competitors in all ag...2021-03-0255 minGenderFugeSupporting women, girls, trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit persons affected by the criminal justice system: From the establishment of Coverdale to Covid-19Ashley AveryAshley Avery is executive director of Coverdale Courtwork Society, a non profit organization that supports women, girls, trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit persons affected by the criminal justice system.
Before joinging Coverdale, she worked in the Mental Health field in Toronto, ON and then in Halifax, NS in facilities supporting women experiencing homelessness and women transitioning from prison to the community. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Women's Studies from Mount Saint Vincent University. Ashley has completed numerous trainings and certifications in the areas of Mental Health, Trauma Informed Practice and Counselling. She is involved in SSHRC f...2020-04-2248 minGenderFugeRacism in Nova Scotia's Criminal Justice System - Robert Wright"Robert Seymour Wright is a Social Worker and Sociologist whose 29 year career has spanned the fields of education, child welfare, forensic mental health, trauma, sexual violence, and cultural competence. A 'clinician/academic/administrator,' he has always integrated his work delivering direct practice clinical service to clients with teaching and supervising interns, and promoting lasting systemic change through social policy advocacy. He also consults, trains, speaks and comments on a wide range of issues. His extensive pro bono work gave birth to The Peoples' Counselling Clinic, a non-profit mental health clinic. His pioneering work with colleagues in cultural competence and co...2020-04-2155 minGenderFugeWet’suwet’ten, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Indigenous and Colonial Law - Patti Doyle BedwellPatti Doyle Bedwell is a Lawyer, writer, and the first Mi’Kmaq woman to earn tenure at Dalhousie University, as well as being Dalhousie Law School’s first teacher of Mi’kmaq ancestry. She is past director of the Schulich School of Law’s Indigenous Black and Mi’kmaq Initiative, and is now a faculty member in the College of Continuing Education. She served as the Chair of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women for ten years. She has worked closely with Mi’kmaq communities, the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Women and the Law, and with...2020-03-171h 04GenderFugeRainbow Refugees of Nova Scotia - Emma CameronToday, using a student-generated interview guide, I will be having a conversation with Emma Cameron. Emma is a graduate student in health promotion at Dalhousie University. For her thesis, she is examining The Postnatal Healthcare Experiences of Resettled Syrian Refugees in Nova Scotia. Today, we are primarily interested in Emma’s work with the Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia.
Students prepared for creating this interview guide by reading “Homonationalism as Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affectives Sexualities,” a 2015 article by Jasbir K. Puar. Students created interview questions that in many cases were informed by the Puar reading but that wou...2020-02-2050 minGenderFugeThe Pink Dumbbell Problem - Terri RobertsToday, using a student-generated interview guide, I will be having a conversation with Terri Roberts. Terri is currently a part-time graduate student at MSVU working on her MA in Women & Gender Studies. Her thesis, The Pink Dumbbell Problem, is about gender and agnotology in the fitness education industry. She is a full time fitness instructor and is also a course conductor for the Nova Scotia Fitness Association. Her side-gig is writing children's books about Celtic mythology which introduce the Gaelic language.
Students prepared for creating this interview guide by reading “Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Femin...2020-02-201h 02GenderFugeDrag and Burlesque - Martell and Kulczycki - 23 October, 2019Welcome to the podcast Genderfuge, recorded in Gender & Society, a Sociology & Anthropology Class at Mount Saint Vincent University.
Today, using a student-generated interview guide, KelleyAnne interviews Kelly Martell and Rena Kulczycki.
Kelly (also known and Ka, The Lady Corbeau, Beau Raven) is a 31 year old born in Halifax. She and has worked in various areas from photography, management, sex work and full time performing arts. She is a full time burlesque dancer as well as dabbles in drag.
Rena is a 2nd Gen, mixed race settler in K'jipuktuk who makes a living as a...2019-12-2957 minGenderFugeStorying the Land - Pictou - 6 November, 2019As always, today’s genderfuge intervie takes place in a Sociology & Anthropology Class at Mount Saint Vincent University - Gender & Society. Today, using a student-generated interview guide, KelleyAnne interviews Sherry Pictou.
Sherry Pictou is a Mi’kmaw woman from Ľsɨtkuk (water cuts through high rocks), known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia, and an assistant professor with a focus on Indigenous feminism in the Women’s Studies Department at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is also a former chief for her community and the former co-chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. Her research interest...2019-12-0550 minGenderFugeOthermothers - Shoboiki - 9 October, 2019In this episode of the Genderfuge podcast, recorded in Gender & Society, a Sociology & Anthropology Class at Mount Saint Vincent University, KelleyAnne interviews Abimbola Shoboiki. Abimbola recently graduated with a Master's degree in Women and Gender Studies from Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research interests include Black identity, Autoethnography, Africentricity, Storytelling, women, gender and social justice. Our class prepared for this interview by reading two chapters from Abimbola’s thesis about the tradition of Othermothering.2019-12-0532 min
GenderFugeThe Bogus BDSM Defense - Chanelle Gallant & Andrea Zanin - 2 October, 2019Welcome to the first Genderfuge podcast, recorded in Gender & Society, a Sociology & Anthropology Class at Mount Saint Vincent University.
In this podcast, using a student-generated interview guide, KelleyAnne interviews Chanelle Gallant and Andrea Zanin. The conversation focuses on BDSM and the "Bogus BDSM Defense" - a phenomenon whereby defendants in sexual assault cases frame their violence as consensual kink. Gallant and Zanin argue that this strategy works best when used by defendants who hold social privilege and who are accused of sexually assaulting women who are socially marginalized, such is racialized, indigenous, and/or sex working women. ...2019-12-0359 min