Program Innovation

Speakers and a graduate student pose together at a GWSS book launch, holding a copy of Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South.
Redefining What Knowledge Looks Like
April 23, 2026
Maria Breaux standing beside a GWSS banner, opening her jacket to show a ‘Vulveeta’ T-shirt.
Riot Grrrl, Revisited
April 23, 2026
Headshot of Amanda Swarr, smiling, wearing a black sweater, against a gold background.
Welcome from the Incoming Chair of GWSS
December 12, 2025
Sumangala Damodaran from waist up and in front of a microphone
Fulbright Spotlight: Sumangala Damodaran's Impact at the University of Washington
December 23, 2024
Side view of a diverse seated audience. In the bottom left corner, the logos for the Mellon Foundation and the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies in white with a purple background.
Mellon Grant Recognizes GWSS as UW Hub for Feminist Thought and Action
March 28, 2024
Kemi Adeyemi Headshot
Kemi Adeyemi's Black Embodiments Studio (BES) Receives Future Studies Grant from Ruth Foundation for the Arts
October 9, 2023
Stack of folder newspapers
Kemi Adeyemi Explores "The Art of Junk Mail" // South Seattle Emerald
June 21, 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
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
Artistic image of beige book that has fallen open with a teal blue background
New Winter 2023 Courses Respond to Current Events
October 10, 2022
An upper-body shot of Professor Regina Lee, an asian woman wearing glasses with shoulder-length, dark brown hair, and wearing a button up cardigan with her hands folded on the table in front of her.
Analyzing Data as a Site of Power and Resistance in Professor Lee's course on Critical Feminist Data Studies
October 7, 2022
Upper body shot of a Black woman wearing a black hoodie and her afro in a ponytail. She's looking directly at the camera and has a neutral expression.
Kemi Adeyemi’s Visionary Black Embodiments Studio Generates Synergy at UW and Recognition of Black Arts in Seattle 
July 18, 2022
Graphic image of an Asian woman with long black hair, wearing a tank top and looking left. Above the image is the name of the woman pictured, "Christina Yuen Zi Chung"
Christina Yuen Zi Chung Contributes to New SAAM Exhibit and Asian Art Archive Series
July 18, 2022
Reconnecting GWSS Community
April 5, 2022
Ofrenda Podcast
GWSS Professor Michelle Habell-Pallán's Ofrenda Podcast is Featured in The Daily
December 8, 2021
GWSS Alum, Shuxuan Zhou, Develops Racial Equity Website for the City of Seattle
November 17, 2021
Michelle Habell-Pallan receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
Michelle Habell-Pallán receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
June 11, 2021
GWSS 451 Latina Cultural Production Class Ofrendas Dia de Muertos Committee at El Centro de La Raza in Beacon Hill
GWSS 451 Latina Cultural Production Class Ofrendas
November 3, 2020
How to Have Sex in a Pandemic Course Image
How to Have Sex in a Pandemic ... YouTube Roundtable Discussion Associated with Course GWSS 290
October 28, 2020
BES Artist Talk - Will Rawls "Stopping Dancing"
Black Embodiments Studio Artist Talk - Will Rawls "Stopping Dancing"
February 12, 2020
9th Annual WWR - Dance the Archive: Memoria Ancestral - March 16, 2019
9th Annual Womxn Who Rock (un)Conference - Dance the Archive: Memoria Ancestral
February 21, 2019
Danny Giles - Artist Talk - Black Embodiments Studio
Danny Giles - Artist Talk - Black Embodiments Studio
January 15, 2019
Students in GWSS 451 create Dia de los Metros Altar/Exhibit
Students in GWSS 451 create Dia de los Metros altar/exhibit
November 26, 2018
Media scholar to explore feminism and pop culture
July 18, 2018