Feminist geographies in unsettled times: Addresses from the 2025 Suzanne McKenzie Memorial Lecture

Feminist geography is addressed and taken up (always differently) by scholars who compose and comprise it. The 2025 Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture was a tribute to difference and a celebration of transformation. Delivered in panel style, linked vignettes by eight feminist geographers from across colonial Canada on three prompts about feminism and geography formed the lecture. Firstly, authors reflected on “What institutional, academic and political pressures and barriers have feminist geographies navigated over time in Canada? What are the benefits and dangers of institutionalizing feminist geography as a sub-discipline?” Secondly, we considered, “How has feminist geography taken up questions of coloniality and race and how can it continue to evolve, while still centering care, intersectionality, and spatial justice in knowledge production and political engagement within and beyond the academy?” And, thirdly, we responded to, “What does geographic thought have to offer feminism and what constitutes hope in and for feminist geography across diverse times and spaces?” Each panellist individually addressed these questions, presented in this publication under separate titles/subsections which, framed with a brief introduction to the Lecture itself, reflect a broad-ranging contemplation about feminist geographies past, present, and future in colonial Canada and beyond.