A Philosophy of Shame Book Review
Shame is often a hidden and often-dismissed emotion that, as both individual and collective, has the potential for both political mobilization and the erosion of symbolic social capital. In this book, Gros argues that “shame constitutes a deep experience; it…
Other Evolutions Book Review
Other Evolutions is the debut novel by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, whose debut collection, The Girl Who Cried Diamonds and Other Stories (2023), was shortlisted for an Ottawa Book Award and was the runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The…
Finding Order in Disorder Book Review
Finding Order in Disorder is an introspective and chronologically dissonant memoir that situates bipolar disorder not merely as an individual mental health condition but as a lived experience shaped by intersecting structures of gender, race, class, and socio-cultural expectations. The…
International Women’s Day 2026
GRCGED is partnering with Guelph Wellington Women in Crisis and other groups for an International Women’s Day Celebration! Join us Sunday, March 8, 2026, from 11am-1pm at the Guelph Farmer’s Market (2 Gordon St.). There will be Guelph’s annual Women…
Woman’s Estate Book Review
Juliet Mitchell’s Woman’s Estate traces early feminist theory and women’s liberation in Western Europe and America. This critical commentary, released in 1971, uses second-wave feminist vigour to identify not only advancements in women’s rights and freedoms, but also the social…
Tea for T
Tuesday, March 31, from 12-2 at GRCGED, UC room 109 Come celebrate Trans Day of Visibility with GRCGED! We will have tea and cookies, button making, and colouring. Come to this cozy open-house style event. This is the day that we…
Hot Mess Book Review
Reflection and Embeddedness of Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code RedClimate Emergency Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency (Wiebe, 2024) blends memoir-style vignettes with critical ecofeminist and environmental justice analysis to show how climate crisis is lived…
