Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

As a place where research, education, and social change go hand in hand, GWSS identifies, analyzes, and challenges structural inequalities, while imagining and creating just and transformative futures for all.

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Undergraduate

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Graduate

Recent News

UMN Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Residencies for 2023-24 Announced

The fifth year of residencies have been selected for The Liberal Arts Engagement Hub, part of the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts.

International Women's Day. Collage of female faculty, staff, and students

International Women's Day 2023

We are #UMNproud of all of the ways in which women have positively shaped our CLA community. To celebrate, we've gathered a collection of recent stories featuring women who…

The Queer Feminist Possibilities of Can

RIDGS GRPP Fellow and GWSS Graduate Student Ali Yıldırım Uses Unique Methodologies to Study Alevi Culture.

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Book Review of Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam

GWSS Graduate Student Ali Yildirim wrote a review of Evren Savci's book "Queer in Translation" in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Afghan Women’s Rights as the Taliban’s Bargaining Tool for International Recognition

Grad student Tahmina Sobat co-authored this blog post, which urges the UN and others "to meaningfully engage and support Afghan women’s movements and resistance against the…