CONGRATS TO EDGES MEMBER MELISSA PLISIC ON THE COMPLETION OF THEIR MA DEGREE FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR GENDER, RACE, SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE!!
EDGES member Melissa Plisic has successfully completed their MA degree from UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Congrats, Melissa! Their master’s thesis is titled “’Plant-Based Research: a queer master’s thesis born of mass extinction“. Master’s Thesis Abstract: Plant-Based Research concerns kinship-making practices in the context of mass extinction. […]
NEW PUB FROM EDGES MEMBER LEILA HARRIS: GENDER IDENTITIES, WATER INSECURITY, AND RISK: RE-THEORIZING THE CONNECTIONS FOR A GENDER-INCLUSIVE TOOLKIT FOR WATER INSECURITY RESEARCH
Abstract: Informed by decades of literature, water interventions increasingly deploy “gender-sensitive” or even “gender transformative” approaches that seek to redress the disproportionate harms women face from water insecurity. These efforts recognize the role of gendered social norms and unequal power relations but often focus narrowly on the differences and dynamics between cisgender (cis) men and […]