The funding, to be delivered over five years, comes courtesy of the federal government's . According to the announcement of the award, Nicol will lead a 22-member team to "explore how LGBT and human rights groups resist criminalization of sexual orientation and gender identity," especially in the developing world of the global south.

"Our work will combine documentary and participatory video with qualitative interviewing, focus groups, legal data research and analysis, and a limited use of surveys," Nicol says in a release. "We plan to make a unique contribution to documenting and analyzing criminalization, asylum and resistance to criminalization within and beyond regions."

The project also received coverage .

A complete overview of the project and its partners is available in the Research News archives. The project is based in the Centre for Feminist Research at 91亚色.

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The evolution of bathroom-stall signage 鈥� from line drawings to hens-versus-roosters shtick to ambiguously arty pin-ups 鈥� has left a growing number of Toronto restaurants with no sign at all. In Ottawa, meanwhile, the so-called 鈥渂athroom bill鈥� recently passed in the House of Commons by a narrow margin. Among other things, the controversial legislation reinforces the rights of transgendered people to use whatever bathroom they see fit.

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Cavanagh loves seeing bathroom signs that are victims of their own cleverness, the ones that make it difficult to figure out which door means what, said the Star. 鈥淭hat moment of confusion gives people a moment to pause and wonder, 鈥楧oes that sign fit me or not?鈥�. . . (and to) wonder what it might be like for those whose gender identity isn鈥檛 so clear,鈥� she says. 鈥淲hat do you do when you need to use the bathroom but you鈥檙e not sure which door to go into?鈥�

At the book launch for Queering Bathrooms at the Gladstone Hotel in November, a 91亚色 graduate student named Teresa Jewell made washroom signs with a variety of different gender-signifying images聽鈥� bras, ties, high-heels, pads聽鈥� and pinned them over the usual male-female signage.

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One of them was an article co-authored by members of 91亚色鈥檚 LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research, psychology Professor Jennifer Connolly and Distinguished Research Professor Debra Pepler in the Faculty of Health, along with Professor Wendy Craig (MA 鈥�89, PhD 鈥�93) of Queen鈥檚 University and Adele Goldberg (MA 鈥�91, PhD 鈥�10).

Left: Debra Pepler

The article, 鈥�鈥�, is available in a virtual Special Issue: Decade in Review published this month and representing the best of the Journal of Research on Adolescence in celebration of its 20th anniversary.

The Society for Research on Adolescence and the journal's editorial team say the 10 articles embody 鈥渢he exemplary quality of scholarship upon which the journal has solidified its reputation as a leading publication in the field of adolescent research.鈥�

鈥淢ixed-Gender Groups, Dating, and Romantic Relationships in Early Adolescence鈥�, first published in the journal鈥檚 May 2004 issue, details a study on the dating-stage and developmental-contextual models of romantic relationships during early adolescence.

Right: Jennifer Connolly

The study looked at same-gender friendships, affiliation with mixed-gender groups, dating and romantic relationships in a sample of 1,284 young adolescents of diverse ethnocultural backgrounds. Data was collected cross-sectionally in Grades 5 through 8, as well as longitudinally in the fall and spring of an academic year.

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Podruchny鈥檚 talk, 鈥淭ough Bodies, Fast Dogs, Well-Dressed Wives: Measures of Manhood Among French-Canadian Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade鈥�, will take place聽tomorrow, from 2:30 to 4pm, at 010 Vanier College, Vanier Senior Common Room, Keele campus.

She will discuss French Canadian and M茅tis voyageurs working in the fur trade. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the voyageurs developed a range of masculine ideals that worked together to promote a particular trope of manhood among this workforce. Men were expected to perform near miraculous feats of labour by paddling continuously for weeks on end, barely stopping to sleep and eat, carrying impossibly heavy packs across slippery and steep portages, and shooting through dangerous rapids, says Podruchny.

They challenged each other to develop bodies that were as tough as possible through games of speed, endurance and strength. They distinguished categories within the workforce. Pork eaters were denigrated as lesser men; North men were considered to be tougher; Athabasca men the toughest, she says.

Tough man ideals included taking risks, being jovial and stoic in the聽face of hardship, and standing up to the dangers of the wild. Voyageurs also idealized largess, spending money on luxury goods, such as decorating their possessions, feasting and drinking, and wooing women with extravagant gifts. The range of these ideals created distinct values in fur trade and M茅tis communities that stood out sharply from their bosses, missionaries, and later white settlers who began to intrude in the northwest starting in the 1870s.

Podruchny work focuses on the history of French and indigenous contact in early Canada. She is the author of and co-editor of .

The 2010-2011 Canada: Like You鈥檝e Never Heard It Before Speakers' Series features public lectures by prominent 91亚色 Canadianists. Co-sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program and the Canadian Studies club, this interdisciplinary series demonstrates the breadth and depth of both Canadianist research at 91亚色 and the work of outside authors.

This series is co-sponsored by Vanier College, Winters College, New College, Stong College, Calumet College and Founders College, as well as the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

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Right: Sheila Cavanagh

In her new book , Cavanagh, a queer theorist, explores how the gendered nature of public washrooms has become a source of anxiety and political controversy in recent years.

鈥淲hile talk about public facilities is often designated as out-of-bounds and not to mention crude and impolite in everyday conversation, these places condition ideas about gender and sexuality,鈥� says Cavanagh. 鈥淏athrooms have always been places where we segregate folks on the basis of gender, sexuality, class, disability and race.鈥�

This segregation has a long history in North America and Cavanagh聽says that in the not too distant past; there were racially segregated bathrooms and water fountains in the American south. People with physical disabilities are today often desexualized by unisex facilities. 鈥淲hen you are physically disabled, your gender doesn鈥檛 seem to matter and you are desexualized in the built environment,鈥� says Cavanagh.

She聽points out that separate bathrooms for the chamber maid or hired help were also built into many of the homes of the bourgeoisie classes. 鈥淚n Toronto, bathrooms of today are often designated for 鈥榗ustomers only,鈥欌�� she says. 鈥淧eople who are homeless or street active or sex workers are frequently denied access to public facilities.鈥�

The book is based on 100 interviews Cavanagh conducted with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered,聽queer and/or intersex (LGBTQI) people living in North American cities. It聽delves into the ways that queer and trans communities are challenging the rigid gendering and heteronormative composition of public washrooms. Incorporating theories from queer studies, trans studies, psychoanalysis, and the work of French philosopher , Cavanagh argues in the pages of Queering Bathrooms that the cultural politics of excretion are intimately related to the regulation of gender and sexuality.

The book took聽four years to create 鈥撀爐wo years for Cavanagh to transcribe the interviews and another two to write and edit. 鈥淚 came up with the title Queering Bathrooms in discussions with my research assistants. We felt that it was important to prompt the reader to think about how the rules governing gender in the bathroom are queer 鈥� meaning odd or unusual,鈥� says Cavanagh. 鈥淚 refer to the hygienic imagination in the subtitle because part of what it means to govern the gender of bathroom users is to clean up or excommunicate those imagined to be 鈥榦ut of place鈥�."

What amazed her most as she compiled the book聽are the stories told by LGBTQI folks during the interviews. Many revealed they had witnessed or had been harassed for allegedly using the "wrong" washroom. It is no wonder,聽says Cavanagh, that activists must continue to campaign for more gender-neutral facilities.

"Access to bathrooms is a human rights issue and we must not police the gender of bathroom occupants," says Cavanagh. "While it is important to build gender neutral bathrooms, like the ones built at 91亚色 by the SexGen committee, it is equally important to challenge what counts as a man and as a woman when in more rigidly gendered rooms."

The cover image of was chosen because the gender of the subject peering into the Victorian mirror is unclear, says Cavanagh. "The viewer wonders whether he/she is taking off a moustache or putting on lipstick. The slim hips and flat chest coupled with the wearing of a suit further complicates the image. I wanted a cover image that would prompt viewers to question our certainty about the gender identities of others in public spaces."

Her recommendation is not to do away with the gendered designs of bathrooms entirely but to be uncertain about what the gendered signs mean. "We must remember that there is always a gap between gender identity and the signs used to authorize our social status as gendered subjects. While gender neutral toilets are an absolute necessity, it is equally important to be creative with gender signage."

Cavanagh envisions that such creativity would allow the bathroom to become a pedagogical space where patrons would be gently challenged about their assumptions about what counts as a man or as a woman.

In addition to the book, Cavanagh says she gathered such a wealth of material that she is now working on a script for a new play, Queer Bathroom Monologues. The first iteration of the play was staged at the book launch at the Gladstone Hotel which took place in November. "It was such a hit," says Cavanagh, "that I knew I had to develop it for a larger audience."

For more information or to purchase a copy of聽the book, visit the web page on the University of Toronto Press website.

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Released in December, the volume of essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explores issues of race and ethnicity, culture, media, gender and migration.

The collection is edited by , associate dean external of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and Halleh Ghorashi, a professor at VU University Amsterdam.

In previews, London-based scholars say the essays 鈥渋lluminate a rich mix of issues that shape and define the everyday experiences of diasporic Muslims,鈥� address 鈥渟ome of the egregious stereotypes used about the Muslim diaspora鈥� and show how 鈥渉omogenization of diverse communities may serve political expediency but has a negative effect on the quest for meaningful integration.鈥�

Moghissi, who teaches women鈥檚 and equity studies at 91亚色, has written the introduction and contributed one essay 鈥� 鈥淐hanging spousal relations in diaspora: Muslims in Canada鈥�. Other essays look at Muslim youth culture in Europe, radicalization of Muslims in Sweden, discrimination against young Muslim French women, and home and belonging for Moroccan-Dutch Muslims.

The essays grew out of a four-year international research project, "Muslim diasporas: Heightened Islamic identity, gender, and cultural resistance". Started in 2006, the project involved scholars in Canada, France, Sweden, Britain聽and the Netherlands and was funded by the Ford Foundation.

Moghissi is聽the author of聽, released in 1999 and still considered timely and relevant. It was translated and reprinted in 2010 by a South Korean publisher. In 2009, she published a monograph, , co-authored by 91亚色 political science professors and .

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The event will take place Jan. 13, from 2:30 to 5pm, on the聽5th Floor of the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)聽Building, Keele campus. In addition, there will be some short remarks at 3:30pm in 5084 TEL Building, at the south end of the hallway. Refreshments will be served.

The open house will showcase faculty- and student-led research projects, along with short presentations by researchers.

The LaMarsh Centre conducts interdisciplinary research in health, education, relationships and development of infants, children, adolescents, emerging adults and families. Its particular focus is on the health and well-being of Canada鈥檚 youth, preventing youth violence and promoting positive development. The aim is to foster a centre of learning, productivity and exchange for new and senior scholars and to create a critical mass of related research activity.

The YIHR takes a determinants approach to health research with sub-areas including diversity and health, health equity and social justice, health and the environment, health law and ethics, health care and health governance. YIHR draws together a range of social, biomedical, environmental and behavioural scientists, as well as researchers from business, law, education and the physical sciences, bridging the divide between the sciences and social sciences to deliver real-world solutions.

The houses the largest university-based survey centre in Canada, conducting major surveys on population health, education, gender, the environment and voting behaviour. It conducts more than 25 survey research projects annually, as well as a range of qualitative research, including focus group studies. ISR staff complete all stages of the survey research process from questionnaire design, sample selection and data collection to the preparation of machine-readable data files, statistical analysis and report writing.

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McMurtry, former attorney general of Ontario, will open with remarks on social justice in Canada. Each panelist will speak about a different aspect of the theme, followed by a question and answer period. Robert Latham, director of 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for International & Security Studies, will talk about rights to mobility and citizenship; sociologist Lesley Wood, about social movement, globalization and policing; and Sara Horowitz, director of 91亚色鈥檚 Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, about gender, genocide and Jewish memory.

The two-hour event starts at 1pm in 280N 91亚色 Lanes.

Research Matters is an annual lecture series showcasing 91亚色 research and sponsored by the associate dean of research in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS). Dean Martin Singer and Barbara Crow, associate dean of research, will introduce the Jan. 12 panel discussion.

Previous panels have discussed issues such as scholarship and policy development, internationalization and global health, the north, China, knowledge mobilization, pandemic planning and interdisciplinary research. To view videos of the panel discussions, visit the聽LA&PS website.

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鈥淟istening to Paintings: Cultural Mythologies of Gender in the Caribbean鈥�, part of the Caribbean Lecture Series, will take place Thursday, Nov. 11, from 12:30 to 2:30pm in the Conference Centre, 519 91亚色 Research Tower, Keele campus.

Right: Patricia Mohammed

Mohammed鈥檚 research explores the ways Caribbean people鈥檚 understanding of class, ethnic and gender identities influences the culturally specific ways in which they produce and live.

Her research interests, which have largely focused on gender and feminist theory, are now amplified through the lens of visuality. She is interested in the reading of the image, whether still or moving, and in understanding what the Caribbean has created as an esthetic as a result of its peculiar New World history.

Mohammed's publications include Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Gendered Realities: Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought (University of the West Indies Press, 2002), Gender Negotiations Among Indians in Trinidad, 1917-1947 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Caribbean Women at the Crossroads (University Press of the West Indies, 2000).

The Caribbean Lecture Series is presented by the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC).

For more information, visit the CERLAC website.

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The talk will take place on Nov. 11, from 7 to 10pm in N201 Ross Building, Keele campus.

There have been at least 26 film or television English-language adaptations of and a new adaptation is currently in the works. It would seem that both producers and audiences never tire of Bront毛鈥檚 classic novel.

Cummins, a filmmaker whose doctoral work specializes in feminist film and filmmakers, will examine how the gender relations and sexual politics of Bront毛鈥檚 proto-feminist text have been re-interpreted and represented in four different adaptations over a 50-year period.

Integrating adaptation studies and feminist theory, her analysis will consider the impact of paratextual factors such as history and market forces, including star personas and studio/network brands, on media producers鈥� fidelity to Bront毛鈥檚 vision.

Cummins work has been screened and broadcast internationally. She has written for magazines about film, and her most recent publication is a peer-reviewed chapter in , published by Wilfred Laurier Press. Currently, she teaches courses in the Media Fundamentals Program at Sheridan College Institute for Advanced Learning & Technology.

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