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Warm congratulations to Krista Grensavitch for receiving the UWM 2020 Academic Staff Outstanding Teaching Award! Dr. Grensavitch completed her MA in Women’s and Gender Studies in 2014 and received her Ph.D. in History at UWM in 2019. Her Ph.D. thesis, titled … Continue Reading »
Lisa Hager (English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at UWM-Waukesha) is the recipient of the Surridge Prize for best essay in the Victorian Review. Her essay, “A Case for a Trans Studies Turn in Victorian Studies: ‘Female Husbands’ of the Nineteenth Century,” … Continue Reading »
About the Milwaukee Freedom Fund, Resources, FAQs: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9Ovd3ADYse95QlGDWzwhm3oV69vmtBa/view?fbclid=IwAR2wtowX9SJfol8KxT28FLnFFczgMpcLLzUW6uT33ekHGrJ0L36ixkbLzk0 Donate to the Milwaukee Freedom Fund: https://supportwomenshealth.salsalabs.org/mkefreedomfund/index.html Other Black- and Brown-led Milwaukee organizations (list compiled by Milwaukee Freedom Fund on a fundraising site that is no longer active): BLOC: Black Leaders Organizing … Continue Reading »
Collective Statement of Solidarity In response to police violence against Black and Brown people in our city and nationwide and the recent murders of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Joel Acevedo, Ahmaud Arbery, and a painfully long list of others, we write in strong … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies student Tasha Berillo has chosen show her support and advocacy for black lives through art and educating individuals around her. Through making this piece, she reflected on a Hannah-Jones’s article that was read in her coursework. … Continue Reading »