Mru Women'S & Gender Studies

Welcome to the Women's & Gender Studies Program at Mount Royal University!

We strive to mobilize the revolutionary potential of Women’s & Gender Studies to achieve social justice by helping students to start thinking about how they can use what they’re learning to change the world!

We start from Black feminist theorist and cultural critic bell hooks, who defines feminism as "a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. "

We also acknowledge that we are in the territory covered by Treaty 7, made in 1877 between the Government of Canada and the Blackfoot, Nakoda, and Tsuut'ina peoples. As such, we know that our feminism, in addition to being intersectional, must also actively engage in decolonization.