Department news

The Faculty of Humanities is requesting expressions of interest to teach one or more courses on topics relating to Scottish studies.

GNDR Seeks TA's for the 202605 term

The Department of Gender Studies would like to congratulate Tamara Amoroso Gonsalves on thier new publication - “Parental Alienation: A new form of gender-based violence against women and children in Latin America and the Caribbean”

SEPTEMBER 8 - 14 2025 The CICR: UVic Research Collective invites you to visit our pop-up exhibition that queries the ongoing coloniality of universities. It showcases past and present initiatives of UVic community members addressing these realities. The exhibition includes a short film screening and a permanent wall mural installation that visualizes Salish treaty lands.

Theresa Jean Ambo & Kelly Leah Stewart - Remembering, Restoring, and Reclaiming in the Wake of Erasure

Dr Cacchioni's research examines the medicalization of sex, gender, and sexuality, broadly, as well as through specific diagnoses such as Female Sexual Dysfunction and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. I am interested in the ways in which doctors, psychiatrists, and more recently, drug companies shape understandings of ‘normalcy’ and ‘deviance’ across categories of gender, race, and class. My work examines the pathologization of some sexual acts and identities and the 'healthicization' of others. I am also a pharmaceutical drug regulation activist. I have testified twice at the US Federal Drug Administration against an ineffective desire drug with several harmful side-effects, hyped in the media as a ‘pink Viagra.’ This experience is documented in my book Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love. I am currently working on UVic Faculty of Humanities funded study titled ‘Understanding and Experiences of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.’