WGSS Speaker Series: Andres Mayorga and Kathy Sexsmith
Join us for the WGSS Speaker Series! Snacks will be provided. Climate change permeates rural Central American life in ways that exacerbate gendered forms of everyday violence. In this talk, Mayorga and Sexsmith examine the experiences of violence against women farmers in La Paz, Honduras and argue that acute and slow environmental stressors interact with
WGSS Speaker Series: Brooke Hull
Join us for the WGSS Speaker Series! Snacks will be provided. Brooke Hull, a white, fat, queer, trans nonbinary designer and educator, will share their most recent publication from the Journal of Femininities titled, “Expanding Femininity: Critical, Collaborative Autoethnographic Narrative on Fat, Nonbinary Experiences.” This paper was written collaboratively with Ratnadevi Manokaran, a fat studies
WGSS Speaker Series: Laurie Essig
Join us for a talk: Tracing the Global Anti-Gender Movement: Feminism, Facism & the Future”. At first glance, the global anti-gender movement can seem like a singular ideological force, but the truth is the anti-gender movement is far from coherent. Depending on context, the anti-gender movement focuses on attacking trans women, abortion rights, gender studies,
WGSS Speaker Series: Marquis Bey
Join us for a talk: The Life of Nonbinary. This talk moves beyond circumscribed identities to propose nonbinary as a way of living that loosens gender’s grip on personhood and sociality. Drawing from scenes—in classrooms, inside prisons, and in redwood forests—the talk argues that gender functions as a technology of classification that organizes care, desire,
WGSS Speaker Series-Ariana June Steele
Join Steele as they discuss their plans for their book project, tentatively titled Asubjective Subjects: Trans Identity, Semiotics, and the Internet. This book zooms into the political efficacy of trans and queer practices of self-identification, using social semiotic analyses to explore 1) how we can practice subversive identities under hegemonic discursive regimes and 2) what
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaker Series: Brooke Hull
Join us for a powerful talk with Brooke Hull as they share their most recent publication! The talk will center around weight, gender presentation and self-worth!
WGSS Speaker Series: Michelle Irving
Join us for a talk by Michelle Irving (Ph.D., Political Science, Rutgers University) exploring how maternal appeals shape voter perceptions in U.S. congressional races, particularly at the intersection of race and gender. Her research draws on surveys, text analysis, and case studies to examine political identity and messaging in the United States and Canada.
“Doing Gender Justice: Queering Reproduction, Kin, and Care”
This panel event, co-sponsored by the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences will feature Shui-yin Sharon Yam, professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies at the University of Kentucky, and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality