Tag: gender

• Women’s March 2020

  

  In case you didn’t know – today marks the 4th Annual Global Women’s March.  Since the 1990s, violence against women has gone from being something that only concerned feminist activists to becoming a key human rights issue around the world. The Feminist movement began in the 20th century, focusing on the reproductive rights of women. …

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  2020, equity, feminist, gender, global women's march, institution, mobilized women, movement, reproductive rights, social movement, thetwentythirtyproject, united nations, violence against women, visibility, women, women human rights activists, womens march

• Recent scholarship on Weber’s ‘Time is Money’

  

  Introduction The economic survival of the fittest is a product of the modern Western spirit of Capitalism, developed to ensure its own survival, and in turn has reshaped concepts of time, the purpose of life, community and social values, and cultural systems (Weber, 1905). The values inherent under the modern Capitalist system of the West,…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  bangalore, capitalism, catadores, culture, economic survival of the fittest, elderhood, gender, global economy, gupta, kenya, mankekar, market, meiu, millar, money, polanyi, potlach, poverty, productivity, race, samburu, social, social value, status, success, surveillance, time, UK, wealth, weber, west, workspace

• Review: For Today I am A Boy: A Trans* Identity

  

  Canadian writer Kim Fu became nationally acclaimed when she published her fictional novel ‘For Today I am a Boy’ in 2014 (Fu, K., 2016). Born in Vancouver, British Columbia she tells a tale of an only-son born into a Chinese Canadian family in rural Canada, whom all the while knows he should have been born a daughter (Fu, K., 2014). Upon…

  April Marie Canillo

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  Undergraduate Research Papers

  body, body dysmorphia, canada, coming out, cross dress, for today i am a boy, gender, grief, heteronormativity, homosexuality, intercourse, kim fu, lgbtq, liberation, murder, non-heteronormativity, pronouns, self discovery, social support, spectrum, suicide, trans, trans identity, trans-positive, transgender, transgender experience