Spousal violence in Canada, 2019
A new Statistics Canada report by Shana Conroy, available here. Photo by Sydney Sims.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Great piece by Andrew Cooper in Aeon magazine.
Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’
Interesting article in The Guardian. “Gender is an assignment that does not just happen once: it is ongoing.”
How to study effectively
“Forget cramming, ditch the highlighter, and stop passively rereading. The psychology of learning offers better tactics” – by Paul Penn. Some great strategies here.
RuPaul’s Drag Race and lip-syncing: A once controversial practice is no longer taboo
A great read by a post-doc colleague at UVic Sadie Hochman-Ruiz. Article appeared in The Conversation.
Critical Race Theory: What it is and what it isn’t
A good overview By David Gray in The Conversation that includes a number of links to interviews with Kimberlé Crenshaw and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The Waves of Feminism explained
A useful overview by Vox.
Canadian Perspectives on and Applications of Applied Sociology
An article by colleagues Emily Milne (MacEwan University) and Sara Cumming (Sheridan College) introducing a Special Edition of the Journal of Applied Social Sciences available here.
When two punk bands came to a psychiatric hospital, beautiful chaos ensued
A great video on music, mental health, and acceptance.
Regime of Obstruction: Mandatory Reading on the Fossil Fuel Industry in Canada
A wonderful work edited by my department colleague, William K. Carroll. The entire book is available as a free download here.