UWinnipeg WGS alum co-publishes with professor

Wed. Mar. 25, 2026

Hannah Paterson, UWinnipeg Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) alum (2023), co-published with WGS professor, Dr. Pauline Greenhill, while she was still a student. The article “Disrupting Mainstream Girl Power through Intersectional Feminism in The Wilds” (Girlhood Studies, Vol 18 (1), 2025) examines how girlhood is portrayed in The Wilds, a YA TV series on Prime Video in 2020. In the series, eight girls become stranded on a deserted island while travelling to a feminist retreat and it follows the girls as they learn to work together to survive. Paterson and Greenhill’s article shows how queer and Indigenous girls are portrayed in the series as empowered and complex characters. This is in contrast, they argue, to how American media normally present girlhood through a white and heteronormative lens.

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