Feminist Studies PhD student Hale Konitshek publishes in the Contested Terrains Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Over 300 Montessori and middle school students recently marched to the Capitol to share their vision for Minnesota’s present and future with MN lawmakers and policymakers. This event is part of an ongoing public-engagement project organized by Jigna Desai and Kari Smalkoski.

Professor Sima Shakhsari has spent over nine years actively researching and working with Iranian queer and trans refugees and refugee applicants, looking critically at the disparities and difficulties that individuals are forced to comply with as a result of this process.

We are overjoyed to announce that Spencer Czech, undergraduate student and major in Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, has been selected to receive a prestigious Selmer Birkelo Scholarship for the 2017-18 academic year. Please join the GWSS Department in expressing our sincerest congratulations to Spencer!

Nirmala Erevelles is a Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Alabama. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of disability studies, critical race theory, transnational feminism, sociology of education and postcolonial studies. She is the author of numerous journal articles and the 2011 monograph "Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic". Watch the full lecture given by Dr. Erevelles on April 14 co-hosted by the Critical Disability Studies Collective (CDSC) as part of the 2016-17 GWSS Colloquium Series.

Recently prescription drugs have experienced breathtaking price hikes and occasionally have proven dangerous after they have gone on the market. What is happening with these issues since the Trump administration took office? See what Susan Craddock, GWSS professor and acting director of the Center for Bioethics, has to say.

The GRPP provides a summer research stipend to CLA graduate students to support their professional, scholarly and creative development while collaborating with a CLA faculty project adviser on scholarly research and creative activity. Be sure to apply by March 30, 2017!

In this quick video, Zenzele Isoke describes her studies on how black women enact urban resistance in the era of Black Lives Matter.

Feminist Studies Ph.D. student Lars Mackenzie examines online discussion board posts about trans people's experiences with their credit reports, arguing that the issues trans people encounter illuminate the complex logics of neoliberal capitalism, predatory lending, and the “afterlife” of identification data enabled by big data surveillance.