This UWinnipeg Women’s and Gender Studies interdisciplinary course explores a wide range of cultural practices such as performance, poetry, zines, crafting, street art, video and film, radio, spoken word, comics, and hypertext, to develop connections among artistic practices and feminist theory. To understand the economic, political and social conditions that women artists face, we investigate cultural production by women artists and critically engage a wide range of feminist culture and practices. We explore concepts such as interpretation, representation, cultural production, appropriation, censorship, voice, the body, identity, cultural democracy, and cultural resistance. Topics may vary. Students develop their own creative work.
WGS 3501: Art, Feminism, and Climate Crisis
This UWinnipeg Women’s and Gender Studies interdisciplinary, project-based, experiential learning course explores the ways in which feminist theories and art are responding to ecological crises. We dive into the emerging and dynamic contemporary context of scholarship and art that grapples with urgent environmental questions. We also draw on new bodies of scholarship from feminist posthumanities, environmental humanities, ecocultural theory, material feminisms, and anthropocene feminisms. Our feminist engagement involve questioning and engaging with concepts such as entanglement, kin-making, becoming-with, tentacular thinking, string figures, digital citizenship, sympoesis, Anthropocene, Chthulucene, Capitalocene, trans-corporeality, and multispecies solidarity. Students have the opportunity to practice ‘staying with the trouble’ (Haraway) of environmental crises in order to respond to, engage with, and reflect upon the realities of our current environmental conditions.
WGS 3900 + 4900: Directed Readings
This UWinnipeg Women’s and Gender Studies self-directed, interdisciplinary, project-based course provides students with the opportunity, in close consultation with a professor, to pursue in depth a selected area of queer and feminist theory, thought, and action. Topics will vary and syllabi are developed in regards to the students’ and professor’s interests and capacities. Available for third and fourth year level courses.