The wide-ranging intellect of Black feminist thinker bell hooks (1952-2021) has inspired generations of students in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies classrooms—through her words as a poet and theorist, cultural critic and healer, teacher and friend. Her death at the end of 2021, amid a prolonged season of planetary loss, cut deep. We remember her life with love, as “an action and an intention,” and continue to learn from the wild profusion of thought she offered up to so many.
On Killing… Read more
With this launch of our newsletter, we hope to reconnect with students, alumni, faculty, and friends of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. The last two years — of teaching and learning, research and writing, and building bridges between scholarship and activism — under pandemic conditions have been hard and often isolating. As we begin to gradually emerge and reconnect, please let us know what you have been up to! We encourage you visit our… Read more
I’m the undergraduate advisor for GWSS and have been with the department since November 2021. I graduated from the UW with an MA in Germanics, as well as a degree in fashion design, with an interest in sustainability. I have a background in activism and those experiences have always informed my work, whether it be how I interact with and provide support to students or how I approach my design work. It’s important to me that my work aligns with my personal ethics, which is what I love about… Read more
I’ve worked for GWSS as the Program Coordinator and Graduate Advisor since October 2021. I received my undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies from Agnes Scott College, a private women’s college in Georgia, and my master’s degree in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from University of Cincinnati, making this role and the department a perfect fit for my background and interests!
What piece of advice would you give your college self? Try not to worry so much! To do this day, I’m an… Read more
The Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies has a new logo, created by Chicago-based graphic designer and curator Ashley Renée King. What better way to introduce our new look than an interview with the designer about their creative process!
How do you define yourself and your creative process?AK: I would define myself as a human that enjoys… Read more
Queer Nightlife, co-edited by Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Rámon H. Rivera-Servera, has been selected as a finalist in the LGBTQ Anthology category for the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary champions LGBTQ books and authors, and this year’s finalists were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from more than 2,300 book… Read more
Two of Bettina Judd’s recent poems appear in Poem-a-Day, the daily digital poetry series of the Academy of American Poets, which features over 200 new, previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets each year. “on empathy” (2020) and “Not My Ancestors” (2021) were published along with Dr. Judd's commentary on them, audio recordings of her reading the poems and… Read more
"Why is feminism so good at understanding capitalism?" A recent special issue of Feminist Studies on “Feminism and Capitalism” opens with this question. It features articles by Jiwoon Yulee (PhD ’18, Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University) and Priti Ramamurthy. As the editors of Volume 47,… Read more
A new anthology focused on science fiction and fantasy author Lois McMaster Bujold features essays by Regina Yung Lee and Jey Saung. Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold, edited by Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack, argues that Bujold’s corpus spans the distance… Read more