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POLI 350: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality (Rev. 6) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1

Assigned Readings and Media
Hanson, E. (n.d.). Marginalization of Aboriginal women: A brief history of the marginalization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Indigenous Foundations, University of British Columbia. https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/marginalization_of_aboriginal_women
Combahee River Collective. (2012, November 16). (1977) The Combahee River Collective statement. BlackPast.org. https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977 (Original work published 1978)
Bilge, S. (2011, October 18). Developing intersectional solidarities: A plea for queer intersectionality. Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. https://www.federationhss.ca/en/blog/developing-intersectional-solidarities-plea-queer-intersectionality
Sangster, J. (2019). Exporting suffrage: British influences on the Canadian suffrage movement. Women’s History Review, 28(4), 566–586. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1493765
Channel 4 News. (2018, February 8). Suffragettes vs suffragists: Did violent protest get women the vote? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0IAFIhVfA
Moss, E. L., Stam, H. J., & Kattevilder, D. (2013). From suffrage to sterilization: Eugenics and the women’s movement in 20th century Alberta. Canadian Psychology, 54(2), 105–114. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032644
Thom, K. C. (2025, April 29). How the trans rights struggle affects everyone. Xtra. https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/trans-rights-affect-everyone-273065
Drmay, S. (2022, October 3). The Pussy Palace was more than the raid. Xtra. https://xtramagazine.com/power/pussy-palace-archival-project-237095
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory. (2022, September 14). Raid on the Palace: Narrators reflect [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vutYP5XZMkw
Suggested Readings and Media
As/Is. (2015, March 28). What it’s like to be intersex [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUDKEI4QKI
FemNorthNet. (2016). How colonialism affects women. Resource development in northern communities: Local women matter #4. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. https://www.criaw-icref.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Local-Women-Matter-4-How-Colonialism-Affects-Women.pdf
Ferguson, S. (2023, December 21). What does it mean to be graysexual? Heathline. https://www.healthline.com/health/graysexual
Knott-Dawson, S. (2025, August 20). The suffragettes were not allies to Black women, they were racist. Ed Post. https://educationpost.org/the-suffragettes-were-not-allies-to-black-women-they-were-racist
LGBTQIA Resource Center. (2023, July 21). Glossary. University of California, Davis. https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/glossary
Moran, P. (Writer). (2018, November 13). Indigenous women kept from seeing their newborn babies until agreeing to sterilization, says lawyer. In I. Sturino & W. Smith (Producers), The current. CBC Radio. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-13-2018-1.4902679/indigenous-women-kept-from-seeing-their-newborn-babies-until-agreeing-to-sterilization-says-lawyer-1.4902693
Mudra, G. (2025, August 15). I filed a discrimination charge for what happened to me in a Buffalo Wild Wings bathroom. MSNBC News. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/minnesota-buffalo-wild-wings-server-teen-bathroom-gender-rcna225076
Smith, D. (2025, May 2). Canada’s Parliament just got a lot less queer. Xtra. https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/canada-queer-mps-2025-273454
Them. (2018, December 12). Inqueery: Indigenous identity and the significance of the term “Two-Spirit.” Them. https://www.them.us/story/inqueery-two-spirit
Vaid-Menon, A. [@alokvmenon]. (2025, 31 August). The invention of the sex binary [Images]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOBnug_Dn-w
Vowel, C. (2012, March 29). Language, culture, and Two-Spirit identity. âpihtawikosisân. http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/03/language-culture-and-two-spirit-identity
Vox. (2019, June 29). The problem with sex testing in sports [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiCftTLUzCI

Unit 2

Assigned Readings and Media
Young, L. (2003). Chapter 5: Can feminists transform party politics?: The Canadian experience. In M. Tremblay & L. Trimble (Eds.), Women and electoral politics in Canada (pp. 76–90). Oxford University Press.
Brodie, J. (2008). We are all equal now: Contemporary gender politics in Canada. Feminist Theory, 9(2), 145–164. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700108090408
Ouellet, V., Shiab, N., & Gilchrist, S. (2021, August 26). White men make up a third of Canada’s population but a majority of MPs — here’s why. Radio Canada. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2021/elections-federales/minorites-visibles-diversite-autochtones-racises-candidats-politique/en
Tolley, E. (2023). Gender is not a proxy: Race and intersectionality in legislative recruitment. Politics & Gender, 19(2), 373–400. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X22000149
Trimble, L., Raphael, D., Sampert, S., Wagner, A., & Gerrits, B. (2015). Politicizing bodies: Hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and racism in news representations of Canadian political party leadership candidates. Women’s Studies in Communication, 38(3), 314–330. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2015.1062836
DeGagné, A. (2018). Chapter 8: On anger and its uses for activism. In J. Brodie (Ed.), Contemporary inequalities and social justice in Canada (pp. 142–163). University of Toronto Press.
Leonard, Z. (2016, March 7). I want a dyke for president. LGBTQ Nation. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/03/i-want-a-dyke-for-president. (Original work published 1992)
Dazed. (2016, Oct 4). Mykki Blanco recites ‘I Want a Dyke for President’ - A film by Adinah Dancyger [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6DgawQdSlQ
Bourgeois, R. (2021). Chapter 4: Adversarial politics: Understanding the colonial context of Indigenous women’s political participation in Canada. In R. de Geus, E. Tolley, E. Goodyear-Grant, & P. J. Loewen (Eds.), Women, Power, and Political Representation: Canadian and comparative perspectives (pp. 41–50). University of Toronto Press. https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/9781487525200.006
Suggested Readings and Media
Spocchia, G. (2020, July 24). “I am someone’s daughter too”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s speech denouncing Republican’s sexist slur, in full. Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-speech-in-full-transcript-video-republican-a9635816.html
Graham, K. (Host). (2019–2022). No second chances [Audio podcast]. Canada2020. https://nosecondchances.ca/season-one/the-podcast
Johnston, R., Cournoyer, N., Callbeck, C., Duncan, P., Aariak, E., Dunderdale, K., Clark, C., Redford, A., Wynne, K., Notley, R., & Campbell, K. (2019, June 19). An open letter to Canadians from Canada’s female First Ministers. No second chances. https://nosecondchances.ca/an-open-letter-to-canadians-from-canadas-female-first-ministers
Perrella, A. M. L., Brown, S. D., & Kay, B. J. (2012). Voting behaviour among the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered electorate. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 45(1), 89–117. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41472544
The Social CTV. (2020, September 18). Should outlets cover what female politicians wear? | The Social [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ83oxw1BKw

Unit 3

Assigned Readings and Media
Thompson, D. (2009). Racial ideas and gendered intimacies: The regulation of interracial relationships in North America. Social & Legal Studies, 18(3), 353–371. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663909339087
Campbell, T. K. (2018, December 27). Making love under Indian Acts. Briarpatch Magazine. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/making-love-under-indian-acts
DeGagne, A. (2021). Protecting cisnormative private and public spheres: The Canadian conservative denunciation of transgender rights. Studies in Social Justice, 15(3), 497–517. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i3.2440
Idle No More. (n.d.). Visual herstory of the movement. In About the movement. https://idlenomore.ca/about-the-movement
Democracy Now! (2012, December 26). Idle No More: Indigenous-led protests sweep Canada for Native sovereignty and environmental justice [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvwAt9MRW-0
Mingus, M. (2011, February 12). Changing the framework: Disability justice. Leaving Evidence. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/changing-the-framework-disability-justice (Original work published 2010)
EquitableEducation. (2013, November 30). Mia Mingus on disability justice (interview) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJkUazW-jw
Hooper, T., Kinsman, G., & Pearlston, K. (2019, March 14). Anti-69 FAQ. ActiveHistory.ca. https://activehistory.ca/blog/2019/03/14/anti-69-faq
Spanner, L. (2021). “The strength behind the uniform”: Acknowledging the contributions of military families or co-opting women’s labour? Atlantis, 41(2), 57–71. https://doi.org/10.7202/1076200ar
Kwentong Bayan Collective (Poster), & Tungohan, E. (Introduction). (2017). Caregiving work in Canada [Poster]. Remember | Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project, Graphic History Collective. http://graphichistorycollective.com/project/poster-3-caregiving-work-canada
Suggested Readings and Media
Black Women’s Collective. (n.d.). Rise Up! https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/organizations/black-womens-collective-bwc
Gallant, C. (2021, June 28). The future is Indigiqueer. Xtra. https://xtramagazine.com/power/indigenous-future-sovereignty-indigiqueer-203675
Second Story Press. (2020, April 29). Karin Wells on the Abortion Caravan [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyr0Yv98CwQ
White Swan-Perkins, S. (2018, November 20). 5 Two-Spirit heroes who paved the way for today’s native LGBTQ+ community. KQED. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845330/5-two-spirit-heroes-who-paved-the-way-for-todays-native-lgbtq-community
Woods, M. (2024, October 31). Alberta introduces Canada’s harshest anti-trans policies yet. Xtra. https://xtramagazine.com/video/alberta-gender-policy-danielle-smith-268756
Woods, M. (2025, November 18). The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights. Xtra. https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/danielle-smith-notwithstanding-clause-278028

Assignment 1

McGill Libraries. (2025, August 22). Concept mapping. McGill University. https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/conceptmapping/home
CmapTools. (2015). Concept map about concept maps. Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). https://cmapskm.ihmc.us/viewer/cmap/1064009710027_1483270340_27090
McGill Libraries. (2025, Augus 22). Concept mapping: Tools. In Concept mapping. McGill University. https://libraryguides.mcgill.ca/conceptmapping/tools