In February, three organizations — MADRE, Women Cross DMZ, and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance — convened a group of 23 women and gender nonconforming people from across the United States in order to engage in a cross-movement dialogue on our collective work against militarism and war in order to examine, challenge, and reimagine US foreign policy.

GWSS Graduate Student Tankut Atuk's article, "Cruising in the Research Field: Queer, Feminist, and Cyber Autoethnography," was published in the International Review of Qualitative Research journal.

The GWSS department mourns the recent passing of Maria Lugones, a feminist philosopher whose scholarship is of great importance in gender, feminist, and decolonial studies.

Summer 2020 News & Highlights from the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Even though her last semester at the U moved to distance learning, Hamy Huynh didn’t let it stop her from learning and growing. “I’m choosing to look on the bright side and have been using this pandemic as a reason to better myself mentally, physically, emotionally, and career-wise.”

Collective Statement from the GWSS Community in Support of the Protests in Response to the Murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the urgent need to address the impact of US militarism and wars at home and abroad, and to redefine our collective sense of “national security.”

“Claiming trans recognition or rights is not enough as long as we don’t look at how transgender identity is made possible through racial and imperial logics,” says Aren Aizura. His new book examines the racial dynamics and economic issues related to gender and gender reassignment. “I argue that trans culture and politics need to take account of its own whiteness and reliance on capitalist circuits.”

Ananya Chatterjea dedicates her work to liberation and justice. Through her dance and research, she strives to encourage new ways of thinking and new ways of seeing the world.