{"id":16776,"date":"2023-03-27T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T16:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=16776"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:45:33","slug":"patrizia-gentile-writes-on-the-criminalization-of-queer-communities-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2023\/patrizia-gentile-writes-on-the-criminalization-of-queer-communities-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Patrizia Gentile writes on the Criminalization of Queer Communities in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Patrizia Gentile writes on the Criminalization of Queer Communities in Canada\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/gentile-patrizia\/\">Patrizia Gentile<\/a>, Professor and Graduate Advisor with the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, has published an article in <em>The Conversation<\/em> titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sex-workers-are-left-out-in-the-cold-by-ottawas-unjust-conviction-amendments-201810\">Sex workers are left out in the cold by Ottawa\u2019s unjust conviction amendments<\/a>.&#8221; This article is co-written with Steven Maynard, Gary Kinsman, and Tom Hooper, and explores the recent intention by the Government of Canada to amend the Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act. The article explores this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure to check out this article by visiting this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sex-workers-are-left-out-in-the-cold-by-ottawas-unjust-conviction-amendments-201810\">READ HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-learn-more-about-pat-gentile-she-her\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Learn more about Pat Gentile (she\/her)\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-learn-more-about-pat-gentile-she-her\">\n            \n\n<p>Patrizia Gentile is a Professor and Graduate Advisor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation and an Associate Director at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from Queen\u2019s University in the Department of History. Her dissertation was an historical study of beauty contests in Canada from the 1920s to the early 1990s. Professor Gentile is also co-author of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/C\/bo70067419.html#:~:text=National%20Security%20as%20Sexual%20Regulation,-Gary%20Kinsman%2CPatrizia&amp;text=From%20the%201950s%20to%20the,targets%20as%20threats%20to%20society.\"><em>The Canadian War on Queer: National Security as Sexual Regulation&nbsp;<\/em><\/a>(UBC: 2010) with Dr. Gary Kinsman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong>:&nbsp;Cultural\/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of&nbsp;the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities;&nbsp;queer theory<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrizia Gentile, Professor and Graduate Advisor with the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation, has published an article in The Conversation titled &#8220;Sex workers are left out in the cold by Ottawa\u2019s unjust conviction amendments.&#8221; This article is co-written with Steven Maynard, Gary Kinsman, and Tom Hooper, and explores the recent intention by the Government of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18443,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776\/revisions\/18443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}