WGSS News

Undergraduate Women's, Gender and sexuality Studies researchers, through the guidance of Core Faculty, Rajani Bhatia, were featured earlier in the academic year in New York Now for their innovative storytelling project addressing the high maternal mortality rate among black women in New York State.

In a new article published last week in Ms. magazine, Professor Janell Hobson, chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, looks at current and past pandemic and illuminates underreported racial and gender realities of today and of history. One, she writes in “What Black Women’s Histories can Teach Us about Pandemics,” is that women as a demographic have been particularly overburdened by this pandemic, as they have with all others. Two, that there are women today in leadership positions around the globe that have proven to be “more than capable and even exemplars.”

Congratulations to our Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies major, Damilola Adesanya, who was elected President of the University at Albany Student Association.

This video documents a mural project supervised by Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty Barbara Sutton with her students in "Global Perspectives on Women" (AWSS 308) for International Women's Day. https://youtu.be/BO00aXMR2jI

Beyond Women’s Leadership: Liberian Lessons on Peace, Conflict, and Feminist Organizing A Public Lecture by Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee April 15, 2020 - 12 Noon Campus Center Ballroom, Uptown Campus of the University at Albany The event will include a luncheon and is free and open to the public

Okay, Now Let's Get Information: Studying Beyoncé's Public Pedagogy, a lecture by Kevin Allred, author of Ain't I a Diva? Beyoncé and the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy. Part if the WGSS Lecture Series: Transformative Spaces for Feminist Learning. Wednesday, March 11, 2020 Humanities 354, 12 Noon

The Sexuality Intersectionality Graduate Hangout (SIGH) 2020 conference theme, “Conflict, Consequences, and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Systems of Violence and Feminist Resistance” seeks to cultivate a dialogue on the theoretical understanding of violence, historical and contemporary acts of violence, the dissemination of violence in national and transnational spaces, and the politics/poetics of resistance. Therefore, we invite participants from all (inter)disciplinary backgrounds to critically examine the rhetorics of violence, and furthermore, to think beyond such rhetorics—to imagine new and liberatory ways of living.

Spring 2020 Lecture Series on Transformative Spaces for Feminist Learning will take place every other Wednesday at noon, beginning January 29, in Humanities 354. See Full Schedule.