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QriTical Research Collaborations

  • is a participatory arts-based action research project that will investigate how Calgary-based trans and gender creative (TGC) youth and their caregivers define and experience “gender euphoria.” In arts-based focus groups, TGC youth and caregivers will explore experiences of and dreams for experiencing gender euphoria through the co-creation of digital murals.

    QriTical members: Celeste Pang (coPI), Corinne Mason, Gio Dolcecore and Jill Thompson, with Lead Hamilton (Co-PI)

Dr. Perez-Rivera

  • is a collective of researchers, artists, and activists that works together to examine migration issues, including through a bi-annual arts & dialogue student workshop.

    In 2024 the theme of the workshop is decolonial approaches to migration, with sessions focused on the decolonizing power of collective art, queer migrations, and Latin American migrations to Canada.

  • is a committee that brings together 2SLGBTQIA+ MRU sociology and anthropology faculty, students, and allies to create community and provide mentorship.

Dr. Mason

  • is a SSHRC-funded research project investigating the impact of social distancing measures on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Alberta and Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic. Framed by queer theory’s expansive definition of family and kinship, the project aims to unpack the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks navigating “stay-at-home” measures that disconnected community members from their social supports.

  • is the national association for the field of Women's and Gender Studies, and adjacent critical programs. The goal of the association is to build and sustain a network of students, faculty, and community-based practitioners from across the country. Dr. Mason serves as the Co-President of WGSJ.

Dr. Pang

  • is a research study that explores how ideas about capacity, consent, and decision-making affect people who are facing dementia alone and non-family, non-friend others who become their substitute decision-makers. This study is funded by the Alzheimer Society Research Program, and examines what happens when nuclear family members are not present to take on substitute decision-making roles and how other configurations- including queer ones- are made.

  • Aging & Living is a multi-phase national research and education initiative focused on increasing understanding and action around social issues facing 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults, including housing, healthcare access, and employment. The research report was published by Egale Canada in October 2023. This research has been the basis for several invited presentations including to Pride At Work and was featured as a banner story on the MRU homepage.

Dr. Gasson-Gardner

  • is a pedagogical project that will build out a series of courses at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion for Mount Royal University, which will include Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Religion, The Body in Religion, and Queer Religiosities. These courses will focus on lived religion and connection with community groups.

  • is a study of Remnant Fellowship Church in Nashville, Tennessee which was founded by a Christian weight loss teacher. Archival research and interviews with participants will examine the economy of subject formation circulating around the body’s sex, gender, sexuality, race, and class at Remnant Fellowship, particularly contrasting the community’s rigid control of the body with their break with evangelical Christianity’s orthodox beliefs.