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In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest #AIDS epidemic by 2000.  HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as "at risk."  At Risk: Indian Sexual Pol
WORKSHOP FOR DISSERTATION WRITERS IN WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES This workshop is designed for feminist dissertators from all disciplines and at all stages of the dissertation process. We will combine theories of interdisciplinarity and intersectiona
Postcolonial feminism addresses how structural and historical racism and colonialism within politics, economics, and culture impact women of color in the postcolonial and non-Western world. It explores the intersections of colonialism and neocolonial
It is still summer but we are looking for a new team member to join us this fall semester! GCWS is looking for a PT Administrative Assistant for the 2021-2022 academic year. This position will support our communication and social media efforts and of
THE MEDIATED SELF: DOING GENDER, RACE, AND SEXUALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY What does it mean to perform the self in today's media climate, especially if that self lies beyond the white/male/straight hegemonic order? What happens when these marginaliz
In Misogynoir Transformed, Bailey delves into her groundbreaking concept, highlighting Black women’s digital resistance to anti-Black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other platforms. At a time when Black women are depicted as more ug
COMEDY AND GENDER IN THE U.S.: COUNTERPUBLICS, WORLD-MAKING, AND THE POLITICS OF PLEASURE This course investigates comedy as a strategy for feminist and queer critique, counterpublic formation, and imaginative world-making. Our interdisciplinary app
Hegemony has an ever-growing number of parts and considerations as we come to a greater understanding of society, power, and relationships and how they fit and operate within a societal and historical context and parameters. #hegemony #genderstudies
Our 2021-2022 courses incorporate a number of new topics, research, and disciplines. We are excited to work with the faculty who will lead the courses and welcome students from a range of disciplines at our member institutions to take these courses.
Chris A. Barcelos is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Check out this amazing piece of work by Professor Barcelos in this weeks book feature! • • #newbook #bookstagram
"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" is a 1980 essay by Adrienne Rich, which was also published in her 1986 book Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 as a part of the radical feminism movement of the late '60s, '
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1924-2004) was a scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Through personal experience, history and art, her writing covers topics ranging from spirituality to linguistic terrorism, to m