ACADIA ALERT - Delayed Campus Opening (Weather)

Due to the continued weather and ongoing snow clearing efforts, Acadia University will delay opening campus on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 until 12:00pm, with classes resuming at 12:30pm. Conditions on campus will be assessed throughout the morning and if there is a need to remain closed a follow up message will be sent.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus until it opens. Residences will be accessible, and Wheelock Dining Hall will be open.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by calling 902-585-1103.

(Tuesday February 24, 2026 @ 5:55 am)

WGST 3123 Feminism and Popular Culture

How and why do cultural phenomena such as Taylor Swift and the manosphere exist side by side in a historical moment?  Students will seek to answer such questions by examining ways in which gender is constructed and represented in popular culture. Starting with the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film The Matrix and engaging feminist and cultural studies theories, such as those imagined by Judith Butler, Laura Mulvey, John Berger, Teresa De Lauretis, bell hooks, and Sara Ahmed, students will analyze how boys, girls, women, men, trans and nonbinary folk are differentially represented in contemporary North American popular culture and how those representations intersect with race, class, sexuality, and ability. Students will have the opportunity to interpret feminism and popular culture through their own creative engagements with the theories and texts, broadly conceived. Prereq: WGST 1413 and third year standing, or permission of the instructor.