NOG Course Life, Love, Lust. Visions of Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Contemporary Speculative Fiction Since the late 1960s, feminist, queer, Indigenous, and African or Afro-diasporic writers, filmmakers and artists have challenged patterns of domination in the rocket-propelled worlds of speculative or “science” fiction. By developing alternative visions on (re-)production and [...]
Course: *Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects In Collaboration with NICA “We were there – erasing us is a real act of violence,” claimed scholar Syrus Marcus Ware about the lack of records on transgender community members in the Canadian national queer archive (2017, 174). The message that transgender people “don’t exist,” [...]
On Friday, October 2, NOG member Marta Olivi will defend her dissertation ‘Food That Matters: Food Figurations in Contemporary Anglophone Feminist Dystopias’. In her thesis, Olivi explores how contemporary feminist dystopian novels use food to illustrate how people are oppressed and how they resist this oppression. In her thesis, Olivi analysed [...]
