In part two of this episode of Taking Up Space, The class of Gender 200 at Uvic, led by professor Chase Joynt, shares with you podcasts created during their term. This class tackles heavy topics such as race, disability, the environment, activism and motherhood.

In part one of this episode of Taking Up Space, The class of Gender 200 at Uvic, led by professor Chase Joynt, shares with you podcasts created during their term. This class tackles heavy topics such as race, disability, the environment, activism and motherhood.

In 2015, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet made headlines across Canada when news broke that multiple women were accusing Bruce Monk, a choreographer and teacher of coercing them into taking nude or semi nude photos when they were underaged students at the school. We sit down with two of the women, Sarah Doucet and Serena McCarroll, currently leading a class-action lawsuit against Monk about their experiences over the past 15 years pursuing justice. This Episode is part 1 in a two parter detailing women’s experiences with abuse and harassment in Ballet.

What does it mean to be non binary or 2 spirit? The possibilities are endless. On the season finale of Taking Up Space, we explore just some of those possibilities.

The legislation around sex work in Canada is misguided, and actually endangers sex workers. On this episode, we take you through the history, and explain everything you need to know to be an ally to sex workers in our community.

Its easy to become complacent when we assume that Victoria is more socially progressive than other cities, but is there any truth to this? We investigate this question by looking at how people in our community experience racism and homophobia.

The Indian Act has imposed countless injustices on the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. On this episode, we’re focusing on the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. The latest amendments to the act came as recently as 2017, and we take you through the history of gender inequality in the Indian Act, and how we got to the current version that is still law today.

For Part 2 of our drag series, we consider how decades of resistance in the drag community led us to the local drag scene we have now, here in Victoria. We get an inside look into what drag is all about, and the impact that it has on performers.

On this episode, we chronicle the history of drag, and how it intersects with gay rights in Canada. We speak with a drag queen who's been in the game since 1951, and take you through decades of drag history and the fight for gay rights in Canada, all the way up to present day in Victoria.

The hormone monster affects all of us whether we like it or not. On this episode, we look at the lesser known impacts and uses of hormones by talking about the use of hormones by trans folks, how hormones factor into menopause, and what its like to have poly- cystic ovarian syndrome.

Women in STEM are a minority. Even though there seems to be a push to get more women to apply to these programs, often they don't stay enrolled because they experience bias, othering, and hostile attitudes. What are the larger scale impacts of this trend? And what are people at UVic doing about it? On this episode, we find out.

A sneak peak into what’s to come for the newest season!

This final episode wraps up the podcast season by featuring conversations on intersectional feminism. As we wrap up this season of Taking Up Space, it’s important to come back to the main theme of this program and get a better understanding of what encompasses all of these intersecting political stances.

This episode features conversations on (dis)ability and neurodiversity. Our panel features Monica Ogden, Elaine Laberge, and Joanne Neubauer, bringing together folks from multiple parts of the spectrum of ability to talk about what it’s like to live in a world that caters mainly to those who are able-bodied and neurotypical.

This episode features conversations on class, economic capital, and economic inequality. These conversations can often be looked over in academic feminist spaces, and it’s really important to have them, as class privilege weighs very heavily on whether or not marginalized folks can have a voice.

In this episode of Taking Up Space we feature conversations on personal space, body autonomy, and consent. While discussions about consent and autonomy are becoming increasingly prevalent in feminist spaces, it’s important to include marginalized folks, who have to fight harder to maintain their own bodily autonomy, in these conversations. A warning that this episode deals with mature content, specifically revolving around sexual assault, so listener discretion is advised.

In this episode of Taking Up Space, we focus on how gender and sexuality play a role in defining perspectives. On our panel, we have a person from a gender diversity consulting group, a representative from an Indigenous youth sexual health network, and someone who identifies as one of less socially visible orientations on the spectrum of sexuality.

This episode features conversations on Racialization, and being a racialized person in overwhelmingly white spaces. The panel for this episode is hosted by Ann-Bernice Thomas and features Simone Blais, Zaynab bint Younus, and Rahat who express their struggles caused by marginalization through poetry, advocacy, writing, and so many other forms.

This Taking Up Space episode features conversations on allyship in all of its forms. It can be difficult to understand allyship as it is a multi-faceted, complex idea, and changes in relation to the needs and situations of the individual or individuals you’re supporting.

This episode of Taking Up Space is exploring the complexity of Indigeneity on the unceded territories of the Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples. It features conversations on Indigeneity, Indigenous resilience, and Indigenous feminism.