This panel will dissect gender representation in the mainstream media and address how community media offers radical alternatives to patriarchal communication models and gender stereotypes. How does community media give space to diverse women's voices, empower women, and facilitate popular education?
Helene Laurin, McGill
Helene Laurin is a PhD student in Communication Studies at McGill University. Her Master's thesis was about gender representations in air guitar performances in competition. Her PhD research is about heavy metal legitimation processes happening by and through rock criticism. Focusing on media surrounding and constituting popular music, she also works on theories of taste, gender power relations and the roles of media in popular culture.
Rose Marie Whalley, CKUT
Rose Marie Whalley is a grassroots social activist who has lived in Montreal since 1971. About 20 years ago, driven by the Montreal cold, she sought refuge in the warm studio of a local community radio station. Interested in developing radio from a feminist perspective, Rose Marie is a founding member of CKUT's Older Women Live (OWL) collective. She is also a long-time member of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and a retired teacher.
Sharmeen Khan
Sharmeen Khan is a graduate student in Communications and
Culture at York University. She is also on the Editorial Collective
of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. She has
volunteered and worked in community radio for the past eight years,
most recently as the Volunteer Coordinator at CHRY 105.5FM at York
University. She has been facilitating anti-oppression workshops for
the past eight years and worked on the Women's Hands and Voices
Project for the NCRA.
Angie Wilson, CKUT
Angela Wilson is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University. She studies gender, sexual identity, cultural production, alternative media, popular music, and the political potential of music and youth subcultures. As part of the Venus Collective, Angela is a host of a weekly radio program on CKUT 90.3 FM showcasing independent female musicians. With the rest of the Collective, Angela can also be found DJing and choreographing your wine and cheese or your dance party--she'll be the one mixing Crass and Irma Thomas by way of the Slits and Wanda Jackson.
