Taking Sexuality Studies from York to Degrassi with Evan Vipond and Amanda Selvaggi S3ep4

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Spotlight

YorkU SXST Program

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Gender and Sexuality Studies Spotlight highlights what you can do with your Gender/Sexuality Studies degrees. Produced in collaboration with the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at York University, these interviews between graduate students and activists, scholars, and professionals explore how you can apply a feminist and critical sexualities lens to just about anything.

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Taking Sexuality Studies from York to Degrassi with Evan Vipond and Amanda Selvaggi S3ep4

Gender and Sexuality Studies Spotlight

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2 years ago

Taking Sexuality Studies from York to Degrassi with Evan Vipond and Amanda Selvaggi S3ep4

In today’s episode, Amanda is joined by Ph.D. Candidate Evan Vipond. While completing their B.A.H in Theatre Studies at York, Evan took several courses in the Sexuality Studies program and is now a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies Department. Evan’s research is interdisciplinary, drawing from women and gender studies, transgender studies, and sexuality studies. Their areas of expertise include trans rights and critical politics, neoliberalism, and trans cultural representation. In this episode, they discuss academic publishing, transitioning from undergrad to graduate school and Degrassi.

Find more of Evan’s work here:

Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Evan-Vipond

JusticeTrans: https://justicetrans.org/en/

Evan’s publications:

Vipond, E. (2023). “Expanding the Repertoire of Trans Masculinities: The Cultural Legacy of Original Plumbing.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 10.2: 175-188. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-10440833.

Vipond, E. (2021). “‘One hundred percent dude’: Straightening Degrassi’s Adam Torres.” TransNarratives. Eds. Carter, Kristi, and James Brunton, 145-164. Toronto: Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press.

Vipond, E. (2019). “Becoming Culturally (Un)Intelligible: Exploring the Terrain of Trans Life Writing.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 34.1: 19-43. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2019.1542813. [Special Issue: Trans Narratives: trans, transmedia, transnational. Reprinted as an edited collection by Routledge in 2022.]

Vipond, E. (2019). “From Surviving to Thriving”: A Needs Assessment of Trans and Nonbinary People in Toronto Based on the Social Determinants of Health (Rep.). Toronto, ON: Toronto Trans Coalition Project.

Vipond, E. (2017). “Producing Trans Economicus: Deploying Market Logic in the Fight for Trans Rights.” Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale 77 (Summer/Fall): 17-43.

Vipond, E. (2015). “Trans Rights Will Not Protect Us: The Limits of Equal Rights Discourse, Anti-Discrimination Laws, and Hate Crime Legislation.” Western Journal of Legal Studies 6.1 (September), online: <http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/uwojls/>.

Vipond, E. (2015). “Resisting Transnormativity: Challenging the Medicalization and Regulation of Trans Bodies.” Theory in Action 8.2 (April):21-44.

Smith, J., P. Cannoot, P. Cloutier de Repentigny, L. Holzer, S. Leung, T. Mhuirthile, E. Vipond, and N. Varman. (2023). “Roundtable on Deregistration and Gender Law Reform Internationally.” Feminist Legal Studies (online). doi:10.1007/s10691-022-09512-7.

Davies, A., E. Vipond, and A. King. (2017). “Gender Binary Washrooms as a Means of Gender Policing in Schools: A Canadian Perspective.” Gender and Education 31.7: 866-85. doi: 10.1080/09540253.2017.1354124.

Sexuality Studies Spotlight is produced by Stephanie Jonsson, Hannah Maitland, Kathleen Cherrington, Keely O'Brien, Helen Martin, and Amanda Selvaggi. This podcast is made possible through support from the York University Sexuality Studies Program, Innovation York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit, The Academic Excellence Fund, and the Media Creation Lab at Scott Library. This podcast was produced on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations, and we invite our audience to visit native-land.ca to learn more about the land where they’re listening.

For a written transcript of this episode, please visit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V3BrcFkvrpG7Lr5Mk90JykCCsw1Mc8yD?usp=share_link

Content Note: This podcast features discussions of sex and sexuality that may include references to sexual and gender-based discrimination/violence/assault/abuse or other potentially triggering topics. Listener discretion is advised.

Resources:

York Resources: SASSL- https://sassl.info.yorku.ca/

Canada-Wide Resources: DAWN- https://www.dawncanada.net/issues/crisis-hotlines/

Crisis Text Line- https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/sexual-abuse/#understanding-sexual-abuse-1