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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
(October 24, 2024)
Logo of the Northwest New Works Festival, with "Northwest New Works Festival" in bold black letters on a white background.
GWSS Professor Kemi Adeyemi Joins On the Boards Curatorial Team for NWNW 2025
(September 24, 2024)
Envisioning African Intersex Book Cover
Amanda Swarr’s Book Nominated for Prestigious African Studies Association Award
(September 20, 2024)
Envisioning African Intersex Book Cover
Professor Amanda Swarr Awarded 2024 DSREI Professional Book Award 
(September 3, 2024)
The cover of "Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies" features a series of wrenches against a black background, with text underneath reading "edited by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective."
Listen to Kemi Adeyemi’s Podcast on Deviance 
(August 13, 2024)
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Kavita Dattani Receives Royalty Research Fund Scholar Award
(August 13, 2024)
Headshot of Amanda Lock Swarr
Amanda Swarr Receives Evidence-Based Teaching Fellowship
(August 13, 2024)
Cover of Bangtan Remixed. The cover has a pink background with yellow and white lettering. It features purple line drawings of the heads of BTS group members.
New Anthology Bangtan Remixed Features Associate Professor Regina Yung Lee
(July 31, 2024)
Nancy Kenney and two of her teaching assistants stand at the head of the classroom laughing. In front of them is a table with a bouquet of flowers
Then and Now: Nancy Kenney’s Reflections on Five Decades of Teaching Psychobiology of Women 
(July 31, 2024)
Sasha Welland headshot: shoulder-length grey cruly hair, red framed glasses, dangly earrings and smile showing teeth
GWSS Chair and Professor Sasha Su-Ling Welland Receives Prestigious Population Health Initiative Award
(June 17, 2024)
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
(June 10, 2024)
Logo for 54th Annual Awards of Excellence. Background black with gold rays of light. In large print in center of page: "54th annual Awards of Excellence, June 6, 2024." White W down in right-hand corner.
GWSS Adjunct M. Aziz Receives this Year's Distinguished Teaching Award
(May 13, 2024)
A black and white line art drawing of a figure squatting with one arm in the air and the other holding a sign with a music note on it
Sumangala Damodaran Discusses 'Songs of Protest and Sorrow' on ArchitectureTalk
(April 29, 2024)
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Spotlighting Black Art: Q&A with Kemi Adeyemi // UW Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
(April 22, 2024)
Indian woman crouched down collecting soil in a clay bowl
Priti Ramamurthy Explores Intermittent Female Migration in India // GenderTalk
(January 19, 2024)
Headshot of Adrian Kane-Galbraith
A Warm Welcome to Adrian Kane-Galbraith, GWSS's New Undergraduate Academic Advisor 
(January 4, 2024)
Three books on a table (from left): “Puro Pinche True Fictions,” Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State,” and “Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine.”
New faculty books: Story and comic collection, Washington state fossils, colonial roots of intersex medicine
(December 12, 2023)
Flyer for Knowing Africa event with Amanda Lock Swarr
Challenging Legacies: Amanda Lock Swarr Explores African Intersex Activism in Knowing Africa Seminar—Now Streaming on YouTube
(December 7, 2023)
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Bettina Judd Receives Honorable Mention for The William Sanders Scarborough Prize From MLA
(December 7, 2023)
Compilation of headshots of 2023 winners of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant
Kemi Adeyemi Awarded Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Writing About Black Art
(December 5, 2023)
Headshot of Professor Kemi Adeyemi next to the cover of her book "Feel Right"
Kemi Adeyemi Receives Prestigious Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize
(November 7, 2023)
UWCHR 2022-23 Annual Report Cover
UWCHR Unveils First-Year Findings: Empowering Massage Parlor Workers and Students
(November 3, 2023)
Miniaturized shopping cart full of packages on top of a cell phone
Kavita Dattani's Research Unveils Gender Disparities in Gig Economy // The Guardian
(October 24, 2023)
Jorunal Cover for Feminist Media Histories
Sasha Su-Ling Welland Featured in Interview on Cross-Generational Storytelling // Feminist Media Histories
(October 23, 2023)
A composite image featuring headshots of Michelle Habell-Pallan, Sonnet Retman, and Angelica Macklin
Scripps College Hosts Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities Workshop
(October 19, 2023)
A wall of colorful guitars
Cornell University Hosts Inspiring Chicana Feminism Celebration Featuring GWSS Professor and Alumna
(October 19, 2023)
Kemi Adeyemi Headshot
Kemi Adeyemi's Black Embodiments Studio (BES) Receives Future Studies Grant from Ruth Foundation for the Arts
(October 9, 2023)
Chandan Reddy headshot overlayed with the letters FS, representing Freedom Scholar
Chandan Reddy Named 2023 Freedom Scholar by Marguerite Casey Foundation
(October 9, 2023)
Sumangala Damodaran from waist up and in front of a microphone
Sumangala Damodaran Joins GWSS as Visiting Scholar in 2024 
(September 20, 2023)
Dr. Kavita Dattani headshot
Introducing Kavita Dattani, GWSS Assistant Professor
(September 20, 2023)
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Professor Josephine Ensign Joins Humanities Washington's Speakers Bureau to Address Homelessness
(September 14, 2023)
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Beyond Binary Science: Amanda Lock Swarr Explores Gender, Sex, and Science in New Podcast Episode // Science
(August 25, 2023)
Headshot of Regina Yung Lee smiling. She has long black hair with grey streaks, square framed glasses, and is wearing a royal blue turtleneck sweater with a simple necklace on top. The background is black with gold rays.
Regina Yung Lee Among Group of Scholars Awarded Collaborative Project Grant by Simpson Center for Humanities
(June 21, 2023)
Stack of folder newspapers
Kemi Adeyemi Explores "The Art of Junk Mail" // South Seattle Emerald
(June 21, 2023)
On left, grid outline of photos of 2023 teaching award recipients. On right, purple background; in large white print: "Meet the 2023 teachers of the Year;" in small white print: "By Jon Marmor | Photos by UW Photography | June 2023 Issue"
Meet the 2023 Teachers of the Year //  University of Washington Magazine and Center for Teaching & Learning
(June 21, 2023)
Illustrated outline of the boy band, BTS.
Regina Lee Delves into the World of Fan Translations in K-Pop // The Daily
(June 12, 2023)
Woman with blonde hair and wearing a plain white t-shirt is holding an open book with multi-colored confetti exploding out of it.
Celebrate Pride Month with Duke University Press's Curated Selection of LGBTQ+ Books
(June 12, 2023)
The exterior of the Hans Rosling Population Health Building, a modern and architecturally striking facility with sleek lines and large windows, surrounded by landscaped green spaces.
UW Population Health Initiative Awards Grant to Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Studying the Impact of Abortion Myths on Healthcare Providers
(June 1, 2023)
Sasha Welland headshot: shoulder-length grey cruly hair, red framed glasses, dangly earrings and smile showing teeth
Sasha Su-Ling Welland Selected as 2023-2024 Katz Distinguished Lecturer
(May 22, 2023)
Book cover with drawing of backside of a full-figured naked person surrounded by foliage.
Bettina Judd’s New Book Feelin Featured by UW News
(May 22, 2023)
Logo for 53rd Annual Awards of Excellence. Background black with gold rays of light. In large print in center of page: "53rd annual Awards of Excellence, June 8, 2023." White W down in right-hand corner.
GWSS Faculty Priti Ramamurthy and Regina Yung Lee Honored at the 2023 UW Awards of Excellence Ceremony
(May 11, 2023)
On the left, a headshot of Michelle Habell-Pallan smiling. She has dark red curly hair on one side and a buzz cut on the other. She's wearing large teardrop earrings and a chunky collar necklace. On the right, centered on top of a yellow background are the words " Michelle Habell-Pallan on 'Plurifeminisms Across Abya Yala." In the lower right-hand corner is the logo for the Simpson Center for Humanities.
"Plurifeminisms Across Abya Yala:" A Retrospective Look at the Symposium on Gender, Race, and Social Justice in the Americas
(April 28, 2023)
Illustration of Pittsburgh around the turn of the century. Image features a large building with the name "Excelsior Coffin and Casket Works" written on the front. There are people and carriages on the street in front of the building.
Shirley Yee's Research Sheds Light on Pittsburgh's Lesser-Known Industrial History
(April 27, 2023)
Upper body shot of Marika Cifor wearing red blouse and glasses with long brown hair over right-shoulder. UW's Suzzallo Hall is in the background and has purple "Welcome" banners draped on both sides of the entryway.
Marika Cifor Awarded Grant to Develop Spanish-Language Homosaurus 
(April 6, 2023)
A grid of five photos. Clockwise from top left: a short pink vest with pockets, a pin that reads "Celine" in cursive over the right breast, and a pink, black and white tie-dye interior; image of the vest with one side open to show a better view of the tie-dye; close-up of the wire pin; image of the back of the vest with the tie-dye worn on the outside; image of the front of the vest reversed to show the tie-dye.
UW Sustainability Contest Awards Second Place Prize to Celine Waldmann's Trash Art Piece 'Reinvestment'
(April 5, 2023)
A Styrofoam monument of George Washington on the University of Washington's quad, which was temporarily erected for filming of the show "The Sex Lives of College Girls"
Sasha Welland Quoted on the Dearth of Monuments to Women in Seattle // Axios Seattle
(March 31, 2023)
Upper body shot of Regina Yung Lee smiling at the camera, wearing tinted glasses and a black and brown patterned top. She has her hand clasped on the desk in front of her and in the background are a variety of musical instruments.
Regina Yung Lee Explores Feminist Pedagogy and Digital Project Creation in Latest Going Public Podcast Episode
(March 22, 2023)
Purple book cover with hollow gold ring in the center with the title "Envisioning African Intersex" printed on top. Authors name is printed vertically on the top right-hand corner.
Amanda Lock Swarr Explores Histories and Activism by Intersex South Africans in Latest Book
(March 14, 2023)
Cover of the book "Women in the Sky," featuring an industrialized birds-eye view of a city from atop construction equipment.
Hwasook Nam Honored with 2023 James B. Palais Book Prize 
(March 7, 2023)
Skid Road Book Cover. Skid and Road are stacked on top of one another in large white lettering with the subititle "on the frontier of health and homelessness in Seattle" appearing in smaller letters in between.
Josephine Ensign Explores Seattle's History of Health and Homelessness in Latest Book, Skid Road
(January 31, 2023)