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One to Watch Out For – Nov 7
Oct. 28, 2022—Please join us for an event on Monday Nov 7 at 5pm in the Community Room of Vanderbilt’s Central Library. The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, and the Office of LGBTQI Life are partnering to host “One to Watch Out For: An Afternoon...
Celebrating a recent event – 3rd Black Political Thought and History Workshop
Oct. 12, 2022—3rd Black Political Thought and History Workshop Bordeaux and Clérac, France July 3-8, 2022 Co-convenors: Minkah Makalani and Shatema Threadcraft The event was co-sponsored by the Vanderbilt Dean’s Office (College of Arts and Sciences), Vanderbilt’s Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy Department, the Johns Hopkins Center for Africana Studies, and the Margeurite Casey Foundation. ...
Discovering Divas: A Lunchtime Talk
Sep. 28, 2022—The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is excited to partner with Blair School of Music and the Department of French & Italian to present Discovering Divas: A Lunchtime Talk with Hilary Poriss (Northeastern University). When: Friday Oct 7, 12pm Where: Buttrick 123 Please send RSVP to gsstudies@vanderbilt.edu
9/17 – Before Roe; After Roe?
Sep. 14, 2022—The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is excited to partner with the History Department in hosting “Before Roe; After Roe? A Reproductive Rights History Teach-in” on Saturday 9/17 from 12-2pm in Wilson 103.
10/3 – A conversation with Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow
Sep. 14, 2022—The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is excited to partner with the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab, the Divinity School, and the Office Of LGBTQI Life to present a conversation about LGBTQIA Rights, Reproductive Freedom, and Social Justice with Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow on Monday 10/3. More details to come!
GSS presents the 2022 Susan Ford Wiltshire Award Winners!
Apr. 28, 2022—The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is excited to announce the winner of the Susan Ford Wiltshire Awards for best undergraduate and graduate essays! Our undergraduate winner is Virginia E. G Richards for the essay “Black Women’s Church Exodus: The Online Reclaiming of African Spirituality.” The winner of the graduate award is...
Meet Shatema Threadcraft
Mar. 22, 2022—I am the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s 2017 Sara A. Whaley Award for the best book on women and labor, the 2017 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the...
Meet Cole Polglaze
Mar. 18, 2022—Cole Polglaze I have always been fascinated by the theories of Gender and Sexuality Studies, especially when it comes to my passion for and research of early modern literature. As an undergraduate, I examined how the bonds between the female characters in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale provide these women with power and autonomy in a plot...
Meet Brogan Dice
Mar. 18, 2022—Brogan Dice The intent of my research is to analyze any potential change in political attitudes and/or behavior in individuals who survive acts of sexual violence. By studying these potential changes in political behavior there is hope that this research could further support the recovery process for those who experience and survive sexual violence as...