Entrepreneurs Wanted!

Are you a student entrepreneur? Started a new business or growing your business? Consider applying to be a vendor for the WRC Feminist Flea Market this fall! During the week of November 8-12th, we would like to showcase our student …

Call For Proposals – Deadline November 7, 2021

The UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and the UW System Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian is calling for proposals for this year’s conference.  This year’s theme is Centering Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future.   Proposals from …

Author Lysley Tenorio – October 28, 2021

As part of the UW-Milwaukee’s English Department Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writing Program’s Visiting Writer Series, LGBTQ+ Studies is a proud co-sponsor of a talk by author Lysley Tenorio.  The talk may be attended in-person or via Zoom, and takes …

Desert Hearts Screening – November 4, 2021

Union Cinema is screening the 1985 film Desert Hearts on Thursday, November 04, 2021 at 7:00 pm. This romantic drama was directed by Donna Deitch and is a screenplay adaptation written by Natalie Cooper of the 1964 novel Desert of …

Feminist Leadership Working Group

Thursday, October 28, 2021, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm is the next event hosted by the WGSC’s Feminist Leadership Working Group. Guest will be Dr. Alicia Johnson (she/her/hers), Director of the Women’s Center at UW-Oshkosh and Lead Organizer of The …

WGS Lunch and Learn Series Continues

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues on Thursday, November 11, 2021 at noon with a presentation by Drs Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Gwynne Kennedy, emeritae of Women’s & Gender Studies at UWM.  They are presenting “A History …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.