During the GWSS Fall Reception on October 5, 2022, Harriet Dumba, who earned her Bachelor of Arts in Women Studies in 2004, received the 2022 GWSS Alumni Award. As the Executive Director of Women Partners for Health (WOPAH) in South Sudan, Harriet happened to be in the United States at the time and her parents Cathleen and Larry Scott flew her to Seattle, Washington to attend the reception and accept the award.
Harriet Dumba Receiving the… Read more
When Kenji Fujinaka started their social media internship at the QLaw Foundation, they entered a completely new, yet fulfilling realm of law and legislation.
QLaw Foundation of Washington is a local nonprofit organization that “promotes the dignity and respect of LGBTQ2S+ Washingtonians within the legal system through advocacy, education, and legal assistance.” They have LGBTQ2S+ and Trans legal clinics that provide free consultation, and provide… Read more
The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from more than 20 Kurdish women politicians. Here they reflect on their personal and collective struggles against patriarchy and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey; on the radical feminist principles and practices through which they transformed the political structures and state offices in which they operated. They discuss what worked and what didn't, and the ways in which Turkey's anti-capitalist… Read more
In a recent UW News feature, Kemi Adeyemi, Associate Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, discusses her new book Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago.
Read the article here»
Bettina Judd's book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought is now available from Northwestern University Press. Launched last December at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Art and Culture, this thought-provoking work explores the intersection of Black feminist thought, creative expression, and joy.
In Feelin,… Read more
Please join us in celebrating GWSS graduate student Michelle Morado who has accepted a tenure-track position teaching History in the Division of Interdisciplinary Social Science and the Arts at Seattle Central College. Michelle is on track to complete her Ph.D. this Spring, and will begin her appointment in Fall 2023.
Congratulations, Michelle!
Please join us in congratulating fabian romero who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Knowledge within the Department of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. This position is particularly exciting because fabi will have the opportunity to participate in Ohio State's STEAM Factory,… Read more
The UW Simpson Center, which provides a variety of annual funding opportunities for graduate students and faculty, recently announced their Fall 2023 Funding Round Recipients. Included amongst these are Society of Scholars… Read more
Plurifeminisms Across Abya Yala
Course Number: HUM 597C
Credits: 2
Instructors: Michelle Habell-Pallán, Department of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
Christine (Cricket) Keating, Department of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
Location: (Hybrid) Zoom URL and Room TBD
Meeting Dates/Times: 1:30-3:00pm, May 12, May 19, June 2
As part of the microseminar, students will attend and interview speakers for the Plurifeminisms across Abya Yala symposium (May 24-… Read more
In her latest episode of Grad Share, a podcast dedicated to discussing the challenges associated with graduate school, UW student Leah Rubinsky explores what supportive writing for graduate students looks like with GWSS Professor Amanda Swarr. Inspired by a course Rubinsky previously took with Swarr, which she describes as "the single most useful writing support I have gotten as a graduate student," the episode explores… Read more