"Thinking De<=>coloniality through Haitian Indigenous Ecologies" was published in the journal Hyapatia last month.

Please read our GWSS faculty statement regarding the ICE international student policy.

Professor and chair of cultural studies and comparative literature and professor of communication studies Laurie Ouellette places the show COPS within a historical and cultural context of reality media that participates in racialized police violence.

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If you were a Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies or English major or minor, you knew Judith Katz. She was there for you when you applied for the major/minor, when you needed to petition for a class, and when you felt like the world was ending. Now that she’s retired, you’re probably wondering what she’s been up to.

Fatemeh Kershavaz, Leila Zand, Salome, MC, Sima Shakhsari, Sussan Deyhim, and Sussan Tahmasebi discuss the crisis in Iran from a personal view: their connections to the nation, how this has affected their loved ones back home, how Iranians — the people and the government — are reacting; about the sanctions that are crippling Iran’s healthcare system; and suggestions for what people can do.

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Elliott Powell, a professor in the American studies department, researches the historical intersection of sexuality, gender, and race in popular music. He looks at the role of sexuality in collaborations between South Asian and Black popular music from 1960 to the present.

Ray Barney is a senior at the University of Minnesota double-majoring in gender, women & sexuality studies (GWSS) and Asian languages and literatures (ALL) with a minor in art. They are already doing work informed by feminist, Black, trans, and queer praxis. With the tools and opportunities they’ve gained during their time at the University of Minnesota, Barney hopes to be a part of the shared fight for shared liberation.