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Welcome to Generation!

This site hosts materials for the Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference of the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at York University.

Critical Femininities is an emerging field of study that seeks to examine femininity unhinged from “woman” (Dahl, 2012). In addition to elucidating and theorizing feminine and femme identities, Critical Femininities scholars follow traditions in non-academic femme writing and feminist and queer scholarship to understand femininity as subversive (Hoskin & Taylor, 2019), understand femme-ininity as a theoretical framework and a mode of knowledge production (Hoskin, 2017; Schwartz, 2018, 2020a), and understand femininity beyond identity as affective, assemblage, and lineage (Brightwell & Taylor, 2019; Dahl, 2017; McCann, 2018; Schwartz, 2020b).

The annual conference takes place virtually, and we welcome submissions from undergraduate students, graduate students, emerging and established scholars, artists, and those working beyond the university. 

Our current CFP for the 2024 conference, Generation, can be found here on our website. 

To submit your work to the conference or ask for more information, you can reach us at: criticalfemininities@yorku.ca

The Critical Femininities Conference recognizes that many Indigenous Nations have longstanding relationships with this land that long precede the establishment of York University. The area known as Tkaronto has been cared for by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region. Indigenous-led action is essential to decolonization and requires Indigenous sovereignty here on Turtle Island.

The 2024 Conference Committee:

Hannah Maitland

Mackenzie Edwards

Kathleen Cherrington

Ramanpreet Bahra

Allegra Morgado

Laxana Paskaran

SK Sabada

Alicia Delima

Laura Brightwell