Professor Zenzele Isoke with GWSS grad students

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View the Recording of Our Movie Screening and Panel Discussion of Maadathy–An Unfairy Tale

In October, GWSS, AMES, and IAS collaborated with the AGITATE! journal to launch the North American tour of the film Maadathy: An Unfairy Tale.

SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji Wins National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press' First Book Prize

PhD candidate SeungGyeong (Jade) Ji has won the NWSA/UIP First Book Prize.

People sitting around a fire pit in George Floyd square

Humanities on the front line, community at the center

"How we do the work: that's a big part of racial justice," says Jigna Desai, Professor of gender, women & sexuality studies and Minnesota Transform scholar. Minnesota…

Spring 2022 GWSS Classes

Information about classes offered in spring 2022

Photos of Aren Aizura, Josephine Lee, and Vanessa Lee

2021 Motley Teaching Award Recipients

Congratulations to Aren Aizura, gender, women & sexuality studies; Vanessa Lee, psychology; and Josephine Lee, English, CLA's Motley Teaching Award Winners