Talking Papers with Haley Hrymak

Becki Ross is a long-time academic-activist in social movements, including feminist activism, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ liberation, trans rights, sex workers’ sovereignty, and reproductive justice.  

Becki does her queerly feminist anti-colonial teaching and research in Sociology at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. 

In this episode, Beckie discusses her paper “Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot Be Represented”: Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End” 2018 BC Studies. 

This paper won the prize for the best article published within the BC Studies journal in 2018, and in 2019 Becki Ross and her co-author Jamie Lee Hamilton won the Agnus Reid Prize from the Canadian Sociology Association for their community engagement.  

Ellie Gutowski, PhD is an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development. Ellie discusses two of her first author papers: “Like I’m Invisible: IPV Survivor-Mothers’ Perceptions of Seeking Child Custody through the Family Court System” and “Coercive Control in the Courtroom: the Legal Abuse Scale” both published within the Journal of Family Violence. 

The Legal Abuse Scale is a tool that is intended to help assess legal abuse in family court. This tool will hopefully support further development of policy and practice that recognizes and responds to coercive control in the courtroom. 

You can read Ellie’s papers and learn more about her work at her website: www.drellengutowski.com. 
Twitter: @ellengutowski

The article mentioned by Judith Herman “Justice from the Victim’s Perspective” was published in 2005 in the journal, Violence Against Women.

Between 2017 and May 2020, with funding from  Women and Gender Equality Canada, Rise Women's Legal Centre studied how the family law system responds to family violence in BC.  This episode discusses some of the key findings of the 2021 report from Rise Women's Legal Centre, authored by Haley Hrymak & Kim Hawkins:  Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along-Rise Women’s Legal-January2021. 

David Ng is a queer, feminist, media artist, and co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections - an arts collective made up of queer people of colour.  This episode discusses David and Jen Sungshine's paper on the key themes and methodologies from Love Intersections. The paper also explores the approaches to ethical storytelling through a decolonial lens.
 
David Ng is a co-founding member of the Vancouver Artist Labour Union Co-Operative (VALU CO-OP), as well as a founding charter member of the Artist and Cultural Workers Union (IATSE B-778).   He is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.

Love Intersections: https://loveintersections.com/

The legal system is often used by abusers to exercise coercive control over a former intimate partner.  In this episode, Dr. Heather Douglas describes her research findings from interviews with 65 women in Australia, and her recommendations for change as outlined in her paper "Legal Systems Abuse and Coercive Control" published in Criminology & Criminal Justice in 2018. 

Dr. Douglas is a law professor at the Melbourne Law School and an internationally recognized expert on legal responses to domestic and family violence. In 2021, Dr. Douglas was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia. 

w: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/heather-douglas 

In this episode Dr. Ayse Yemiscigil discusses her first author paper “The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?” published in Psychological Science in 2021. 

Dr. Ayse Yemiscigil is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

 As a behavioral scientist, she studies the relationship between work and well-being. She aims to uncover the factors that allow people to have meaningful careers and lives. Her research has been published in leading academic journals and featured in interviews with the New York Times and Washington Post among other outlets.

In this episode, Ayse describes her research findings surrounding whether retirement leads to an existential crisis, or an opportunity for a renewed sense of purpose in life. 

Website: https://www.ayseyemiscigil.com/ 

In this episode, Temitope Onifade, PhD student at UBC, discusses his paper “Climate Justice Under the Paris Agreement: Framework and Substance” published in the journal Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2021. This paper was one of the  top 5 articles in all of 2021 on Lexxion Publisher for the journal Carbon and Climate Law Review 

Temitope speaks about living and working in the Niger Delta and how it prompted his interest in environmental sustainability. He explains that it was his work representing start-up clients dealing in renewable energy in South-West Nigeria that eventually made him decide to specialize in how energy law could address climate justice issues. 

In this episode he discusses the concept of climate justice, and what it means to him in his work. He also speaks about his experiences attending COP 26 in Glasgow as a delegate from UBC. 

Website: https://www.onifade.org/

Liu Institute Network for Africa: https://www.linaubc.ca/ 

Canada Climate Law Initiative - https://twitter.com/canclimatelaw 

Community Sustainable Global: http://csgproject.com/ 

In this episode, Laura Hazlett, PhD student at UCLA discusses her paper “Exploring neural mechanisms of the health benefits of gratitude in women: A randomized controlled trial” published in the journal Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity in 2021. 

Laura explains that this research from the Social and Affective Neuroscience lab at UCLA examined the possible benefits that gratitude may have on health. Past research shows there is a strong relationship between giving behavior and health, so the question for this study was:  “Is it possible that gratitude may benefit health through the same mechanisms as giving to others?”

Laura and her team found that the gratitude intervention didn’t have any direct impact on inflammatory markers. However, people in this study had an increase in giving behaviours, and concluded that “gratitude may benefit health (reducing inflammatory responses) through the … effects of support-giving.” 

Summary→ practicing gratitude was found to increase the subject's likelihood to engage in giving behaviours or support-giving (telling someone you’re grateful for them for example) and that giving of support to others has positive health outcomes including reducing inflammation. 

Show notes: 

Laura Hazlett is a member of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at UCLA: https://sanlab.psych.ucla.edu/overview/ 

You can read Laura’s articles at Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gm3go24AAAAJ&hl=en 

Email: [email protected] 

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