Jen Marchbank

This is a photo of a pride flag, on a flag pole, blowing in the sky.
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SFU Queer Collective’s webinar tackles 2SLGBTQIA+ rights in universities

Kaja Antic and Kelly Chia June 27, 2024

On June 5, SFU Queer Collective held their first webinar since the organization’s revival earlier this year. The network includes SFU graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff, and alumni who hope to foster an inclusive environment for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at SFU.  The online event focused on the role universities like SFU should play in creating spaces that welcome queer individuals, and combating the recent waves of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ attitudes across the country. The panel included Jude Mah, coordinator for the SFSS’ Out On Campus department, Jen Marchbank, SFU gender, sexuality, and women’s studies professor, Norma Lize, trans activist and communications…

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Dr. Jen Marchbank looking into the distance. She has shoulder length brown hair with two blonde streaks framing her face and a black v-neck top.
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SFYou: Dr. Jen Marchbank

Yasmin Vejs Simsek July 15, 2022

Editor’s note: The acronym LGBTQ will be used, as is used by the interviewee. This is not meant to diminish or neglect those identifying with IA2S+. Dr. Jen Marchbank is a professor and graduate chair in the department of gender,…

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The photo is of the outdoor Surrey Pride Festival. A drag performer is on an outdoor stage as the crowd watches.
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Pride history exhibit opens in Surrey

Yasmin Vejs Simsek July 11, 2022

Dr. Jen Marchbank from SFU’s gender, sexuality and women’s studies department has curated the first LGBTQIA2S+ exhibit at the Museum of Surrey. This comes as part of the museum’s Show and Share displays with elements from the LGBTQIAS2+ community’s history…

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The history of pride in Vancouver

Karissa Ketter August 2, 2021

Content warning: mentions of homophobia Vancouver’s earliest pride protest was on August 1, 1973, when the Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE) held a picnic and art exhibit. Vancouver’s first pride parade took place in 1978. Vancouver refused to grant GATE…

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Community program to launch for LGBTQ+ refugees

Peak Web February 7, 2018

Two SFU professors are teaming up with DIVERSEcity, a not-for-profit agency located in Surrey dedicated to offering services to the city’s multicultural population, to create more inclusive spaces for refugees identifying as LGBTQ+. DIVERSEcity has been playing a leading role…

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