Women’s & Gender Studies is honored to announce Dean Spade as this year’s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker. Dean Spade (he/him) is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation … Continue Reading »
The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at noon with a presentation by Dr. Rae Langes, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at UW-Eau Claire. She is presenting “This is Sentimental Archaeology!” Excavating, … Continue Reading »
UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Silvia Federici, professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, as the Vilas Trust Speaker. Silvia Federici is a feminist scholar, teacher, and activist. She was one of the founders … Continue Reading »
IGNITE National and UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies Department are happy to host “Community Crisis: Affordable Housing”, an event to create dialogue about affordable housing and how it impacts everyone. Today, many community members are facing housing instability. Affordable housing … Continue Reading »
The Women’s Resource Center, Women’s & Gender Studies, and the Black Student Cultural Center are hosting a Safe Space Dialogue to discuss events in Kenosha surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse trial that impact us all. This is a great opportunity to … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
Did you know Women’s & Gender Studies Graduate Program offers not just a Master of Arts in WGS (MA), but also a combined Master of Arts in WGS and a Master of Library and Information Science degree (MA/MLIS) as well … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies is proud to announce Jennifer Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University, and author of Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality (2018), Gender Love (2017), and The Black Body in … Continue Reading »
Our second Brown Bag Lunch presentation of the semester will be Cheryl Kader, former lecturer of Women’s & Gender Studies, who will present “Paid My Dues: Creating Milwaukee’s Feminist Music Culture (for Dorothy Dean)” on Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at … Continue Reading »