Publications

  • Bernier, A. (2024). “We’re less noticeable to people”: Centering tween girl activist citizenship. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice 45(2), 114-126. https://atlantisjournal.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/5758/4834

  • Greene, S., Vaccarro, M., Bernier, A., Griffith, G., Ion, A., Maurice, R., Gabel, C., & Blake, M. (2023). “Digging in”: Stigma and surveillance in the lives of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers who use cannabis. Critical Public Health. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2023.2262739

  • Davies, A., Ormel, I., Bernier, A., Harris, E., Mumba, B., Gobat, N., Schwartz, L. & Cheah, P.K. (2023). A rapid review of community engagement and informed consent processes for adaptive platform trials and alternative design trials for public health emergencies. Wellcome Open Research. https://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19318.1

  • Winstanley, S. & Bernier, A. (2022). “Who were you?”: Temporality and intergenerational empathy in community girlhood studies. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15(3), 35-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2022.150305

  • Bernier, A., & Winstanley, S. (2021). “Speak with girls, not for them:” Supporting girls’ action against rape culture. Girlhood Studies 14(1), 19-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140104

Journal Articles

  • Bernier, A. (Forthcoming). Social work with girls: Forging a new path. In M. Zaborskis (Ed.). Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood. Routledge.

  • Bernier, A., & Winstanley, S. (In Press). “Speak with girls, not for them:” Supporting girls’ action against rape culture. In C. Vanner (Ed.) Girls act out: Activism networks by, with, and for girls and young women. Berghan Books.

Book Chapters

Publications for a Broader Audience


My finalist submission for McMaster University’s 2022 GradFlix Competition.


Bernier, A. & Paton, C. (2024, May 30). Navigating collaboration at the intersection of art and research. International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. [virtual presentation]

Bernier, A. (2023, May 29). Centering the tween girl citizen: Challenging constructed innocence and frivolity to honour tween girls’ activism. Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes Annual Conference. Annual Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. York University, Toronto.

Bernier, A. (2023, March 11). Tween girls’ activism: Challenging notions of the frivolous, carefree tween and honoring the tween girl citizen. Panel: Glocal Perspectives on Youth Activism, Citizenship and Cultural Identity. Intersections | Cross-Sections Graduate Student Conference 2023: “Becoming You(th),” Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto.

Bernier, A. (2019, April). Standing behind a girl-volution: Supporting girl activists to make meaningful social change. Alberta College of Social Workers Conference, Calgary, AB. *workshop accepted but not presented

Conference Presentations