GRSJ 350: Critical Joy Studies

As feminist scholars, we often think of heterosexual marriage as a site of gender violence. From second-wave feminist discourses, marriage was particularly referred to by Beauvoir as “a destiny traditionally offered to women by society.” In her existentialist viewpoint, the marriage ceremony is an institutionalized, public, and symbolic ritual, yet its role in upholding already-established romantic intimacy remains perhaps too...

This project will be focusing on the yearly women’s day march that takes place in Mexico city. More than a commemoration, this day has been transformed one for resisting systemic patriarchy. On the 8th of March 2026 120,000 women (N+, 2026) took to the streets in order to denounce the growing gender-based violence in the country, to demand an end...

On the night of March 13th, inside a local party venue in downtown Vancouver, friends and members of UBC’s MEXSA gathered. Seen from the street, two national color palettes colliding: the green, white, and red of the Mexican tricolor alongside the green, white, and orange of the Irish flag.  Drinks flowed. A DJ mixed spanish rap with mid-2000s pop. In...

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