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Marielle Marcaida, a GWSS PhD student, stands smiling beside her research poster at the 2025 UW Labor Studies Awards Celebration.
Marielle Marcaida Receives 2025–2026 Graduate Labor Research Grant
Portrait of writer and researcher Shuxuan Zhou, recipient of a 2025 Artist Trust GAP award.
Shuxuan Zhou Receives 2025 Artist Trust GAP Award
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Podcast Launch: Season Two of Her Entrepreneurial Rise
Portrait of artist Chloë Bass smiling at the camera, wearing an orange and gray striped shirt against a neutral background.
Chloë Bass: Soft Services Inspires GWSS Event Series on Care, Memory, and Connection
Book cover of "From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State" by Shuxuan Zhou. The title appears in bold blue, black, and red text above a black-and-white illustration of workers—mostly women—lifting and loading a large log onto a truck in a mountainous, rural setting.
Shuxuan Zhou’s From Forest Farm to Sawmill Continues to Receive Acclaim
Cover of the book Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges. The title appears in white text on a black background, surrounded by a colorful abstract border of swirling blue, orange, pink, and red patterns. A turquoise banner at the bottom reads “Insider Guides to Success in Academia,” with the Routledge logo in the lower right corner.
Iris Viveros Avendaño and Elizabeth Ramirez Arreola Contribute to New Anthology on Transnational Scholarship
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Barbara Boswell presents lecture on Black feminist epistemic justice in post-apartheid South Africa // The Daily
Dr. Amanda Lock Swarr receives the Bonnie & Vern L. Bullough Book Award, standing on stage with the award presenter, holding the plaque against a blue curtain backdrop
Amanda Lock Swarr Receives Bonnie & Vern L. Bullough Book Award
The cover of Feminist Formations, Volume 36, Issue 2, Summer 2024, features an abstract, white line drawing of a fish with long, flowing fins on a deep blue background. The title "Feminist Formations" is written at the top in light blue and white text. The issue number and date are noted at the bottom.
Special Issue of Feminist Formations Featuring Professor Amanda Swarr's Book Published
Envisioning African Intersex Book Cover
Amanda Swarr’s Book Nominated for Prestigious African Studies Association Award
Envisioning African Intersex Book Cover
Professor Amanda Swarr Awarded 2024 DSREI Professional Book Award 
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GWSS Chair and Professor Sasha Su-Ling Welland Receives Prestigious Population Health Initiative Award
A person stands at a podium speaking, with a presentation slide behind them about the 2024 Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention for "Envisioning African Intersex" by Amanda Lock Swarr.
Amanda Lock Swarr Receives Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention from the Section on the Sociology of Sexualities
Marielle Marcaida presenting her project to a classroom of students. She is standing behind a lectern and on the screen behind her it reads: "Marielle Y. Marcaida, Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, PhD in Feminist Studies."
Unveiling 'Ronda Girls of Pateros': Marielle Marcaida's Impact as a UW Libraries Research Communication and Equity Fellow
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Sumangala Damodaran Discusses 'Songs of Protest and Sorrow' on ArchitectureTalk
Daisy Federspiel-Baier holding a protest sign and chanting outside a Starbucks store.
GWSS major Daisy Federspiel-Baier Speaks Out on Starbucks Workers' Struggles in NY Times Interview
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Scripps College Hosts Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Workshop
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Cornell University Hosts Inspiring Chicana Feminism Celebration Featuring GWSS Professor and Alumna
Deeya Sharma holding up free pregnancy tests
Advancing Reproductive Healthcare Access on Campus and Beyond: Deeya Sharma and Kels Cook on Their Reproductive Justice Adjacent Projects 
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Monica De La Torre, Ph.D. Alum, to Present at Second Annual Henry R. Fenbert Challenging History Lecture
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Beyond Binary Science: Amanda Lock Swarr Explores Gender, Sex, and Science in New Podcast Episode // Science
Upper body shot of Saad Khan smiling at the camera. He's wearing a light-blue v-neck t-shirt and glasses. The background is blurred greens indicating he may be outside.
Saad Khan Receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship for Groundbreaking LGBTQ Activism Research in Bangladesh
Graphic for UW Center for Human Rights Spring Symposium, includes registration link, list of speakers, location and event lineup.
University of Washington Center for Human Rights' 2023 Spring Symposium Spotlights Strategies for Massage Parlor Workers' Rights Project
Monica De La Torre Promoted to Associate Professor at Arizona State University's School of Transborder Studies
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UW Sustainability Contest Awards Second Place Prize to Celine Waldmann's Trash Art Piece 'Reinvestment'