Congratulations to all of the nominees for the 2022-23 Anita Fitzgerald Prize in Women's and Gender Studies! This monetary prize is for the best written work (i.e.an essay or report) or project (i.e. in other media) by a University of Toronto Scarborough student written/created for a course assignment during the 2022-23 academic year. It must be on a topic related to Women's and Gender Studies such as (but not limited to) some aspect of gender, women's roles, activities and experiences, forms of expression, and/or the development and transmission of ideas and attitudes about women and/or gender, or the concerns and problems of women today or in the past. A list of all nominees is included below followed by some of creative projects that were nominated.
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Student |
Project Title |
Course |
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Frontrunners |
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Ranique Holung |
Quilted Diaries |
WSTB06 |
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Nabiha Said Rana |
Dismantling Neurosexism in Mainstream Linguistics: Looking Past the Curtain of Feigned Scientific Objectivity |
WSTC28 |
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Sana Kohistani |
Sano (2023): Reclaiming Agency and Redefining Empowerment through Artistic Expression (Self-Portrait & Artist Statement) |
WSTD04 |
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Robin Leung |
Consumerism and Constructions of Femininity in Post-Socialist China |
WSTD03 |
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Runners-up |
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Francheska Beltran |
To Be or Not to Be: The Art of Choosing in Moonlight and Pariah |
WSTC22 |
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Anais Shalita |
Grace Nichols’ “The Fat Black Woman’s Poems”: The Body and Memory |
WSTB06 |
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Honorable mention |
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Tara Afshar-Zadeh |
Histories and Legacies of Slavery, Colonialism, and Neo-Colonialism on Black Women in Canada |
WSTB22 |
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Olivia Ball |
Taking Without Consent: The Woman’s Body as a Site of Control (Graphic Art & Artist Statement) |
WSTD04 |
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Jillian Anne Fairfax Brooks |
Gender and Leadership: A Study of the Language of Coaches |
LINC28 |
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Victoria Butler |
No More (White) Tears Left to Cry: A Personal Narrative |
WSTB11 |
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Raiyana Khote |
Women’s Advertising, Language, Gender and Heteronormativity |
WSTC28 |
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Gabriella Lewis-Providence |
Overlapping Worlds: An Exploration of the Experiences of Black and Non-Black First-Generation Muslims in North America |
WSTD09 |
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Stephanie Li |
Woman-Directed Rape-Revenge Films: How Jenkins’ Monster and Fargeat’s Revenge Use Character Transformations to Subvert the Male Gaze |
WSTC22 |
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Michelle Ramnaraine |
Shedding Light onto the Diasporic Experiences of Indigenous Women |
WSTB06 |
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Katharine Schilling |
The Politics of Sexuality from a Transnational Perspective |
WSTC25 |
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Andrea Renee Tsang |
Parts (Poem & Artist Statement) |
WSTD04 |
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Saira Uddin |
India: The Partition That Never Came (A Graphic Short Story) |
WSTD04 |
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Pawarut Yanspraset |
Exploring the Gendered Struggle of Nigerian Girls in Obtaining Education and the Role of Boarding Schools in Contemporary Nigeria (1980-2022) |
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I Want My Childhood Back
By Sana Kohistani
Taking Without Consent: The Woman’s Body as a Site of Control
By Olivia Ball
Parts
A poem by Andrea Renee Tsang
Tainted and broken
I used to be golden
The hand that once touched the sky
Can't even lift a finger that high
Used to empower and aid
Now seem like a kitchen maid
Tainted and broken
I used to be golden
The arms I used to embrace
Now feel like a disgrace
Wearing my heart on my sleeve
I hope they can’t see me
Tainted and broken
I used to be golden
The legs that took me far and wide
They made me feel like I could fly
Two steps now and it feels like ten
I wish I could get away from him
Tainted and broken
I used to be golden
The chest that people would compliment
Now just feels like a type of torment
You use to degrade and reduce me
To some piece of your property
Tainted and broken
I used to be golden
The words that used to say “I love you”
Now I only hear “I can’t stand you”
They cut through me like a knife
Don’t they know you stole my life
There were parts of me I used to adore
I guess nothing last forever anymore
I used to be yellow and golden
But now I'm tainted and broken