Hilary Thurston, Ph.D
Hilary Thurston, Ph.D
Research Associate
Research Associate
Re-Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice
Re-Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice
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About My background in public service informs my commitment to cultural analysis as a world making apparatus
About My background in public service informs my commitment to cultural analysis as a world making apparatus
Interests Queer and Lesbian Studies, Film and Media Studies, Decolonial Studies, Cultural Analysis, Psychoanalytic Feminism, Feminist Affect Theory, Critical Disability Studies,
Interests Queer and Lesbian Studies, Film and Media Studies, Decolonial Studies, Cultural Analysis, Psychoanalytic Feminism, Feminist Affect Theory, Critical Disability Studies,
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Summer 2025
Conference Talk: "Constant Craving: A Dialogic Analysis of Addiction Attribution Discourse in Netflix's Feel Good", Sixth Biennial IABA Chapter of The Americas Conference, June 2025, Cape May, New Jersey. [slides]
Published: “What is Fair? Defining Fairness in Machine Learning for Health” [link] Jianhui Gao, Benson Chou, Zachary R. McCaw, Hilary Thurston, Paul Varghese, Chuan Hong, and Jessica Gronsbell. Statistics in Medicine. September 2025. 44(20-22).
Fall 2025
Guest Lecture: "Lesbian Fantasies: Theories, Myths and Representations" AP/SXST 2600 - F/W 2025, Prof. Frances Latchford, York University, Toronto ON. [in-person] [slides]
Published: “When Algorithms Infer Gender: Revisiting Computational Phenotyping with Electronic Health Records Data” [invited submission] Jessica Gronsbell, Hilary Thurston, Lillian Dong, Vanessa Ferguson, Diksha Sen Chaudhury, Braden O’Neill, Katrina S. Sha, Rebecca Bonneville, special issue: Eschewing the Binary: Sex and Gender Science in Human and Non-human Animal Research in Biology of Sex Differences. [pre-print]
Winter 2026
Dissertation Defence, "Queer Ambivalence: Fantasies of Belonging in the Lesbian Imaginary", nominated for dissertation awards from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research, York University.
Published: "Queering Addiction Recovery in Neoliberal Times" [single-authored musing] Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, January 2026.
Forthcoming: Neurosexism: The Epistemological Politics of Gender, monograph contracted by Fernwood Publishing, 2027.
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