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SFU researchers develop simulated reality game to showcase trans youth experiences
March 6, 2018SFU sociology researchers are teaming up with master’s students from the Centre of Digital Media to develop an immersive game where players assume an avatar and navigate the Lower Mainland as a trans youth to better understand the daily experiences of the young trans population. Associate professor of sociology Dr. Ann Travers is the principle investigator behind the game, called Gender Vectors of the Greater Vancouver Area, and is working alongside Dr. Jennifer Marchbank, an SFU professor in the gender, sexuality, and women’s studies department, and Dr. Sharalyn Jordan, an SFU assistant professor in the faculty of education, to develop…
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SFU alum, Hasan Namir, on Islam and intimacy
January 23, 2017[dropcap]F[/dropcap]earlessly and unapologetically, SFU alumnus Hasan Namir tackles homophobia, religion, and coming-of-age in his award-winning debut novel, God in Pink. The novel is set in Iraq in 2003 and tells the story of Ramy, an orphaned homosexual university student who…
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Canadian Blood Services once again proves its needless discrimination
July 11, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap] have been donating blood since 2013, and it deeply saddens me to hear that Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will be adopting a complicated new protocol on August 15 with regards to blood donations from trans* people. Dr. Mindy Goldman…
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Transgender professor named women’s literary organization’s Critic-in-Residence
January 12, 2015SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) professor Lucas Crawford has just been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ Critic-in-Residence for 2015. The honour of being selected as the Critic-in-Residence has been awarded to one researcher each year…
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Community members advocate for preferred names on student IDs
September 22, 2014Two SFU community members, in collaboration with members from SFPIRG and Out on Campus, have started a campaign to create a university policy which would allow students to have their preferred names on their student ID cards. Lucas Crawford, Ruth…
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