Kate did her Bachelor’s Degree with a Diploma in Women’s Studies at the University of Waterloo, Master’s degree at York University, and is currently completing her PhD also through York University. Her specialty areas include: Sociology of the family, gender, identity, and sexuality, feminist theory, queer theory, critical pedagogy. Kate’s research examines the ways in which the category ‘lesbian’ has been constructed in discourses on sexuality as well as in and through the lives of women who inhabit that category.