Stop by for a free book! To mark Banned Books Week (https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned) we're giving away copies of some recently published books that have been banned or challenged because they address sexuality, race, gender, and other topics. All are welcome, and we're inviting some campus VIPs to participate. This year's theme, "Let Freedom Read!" faces off …
Join the Center for Racial Justice in welcoming Dr. Kris Marsh, author and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, to discuss her latest book The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class. The Love Jones Cohort provides a nuanced understanding of how race, gender, and class, coupled …
This year’s symposium brings together local and global advocates whose work inspires change. We invite you to become part of the conversation around ending violence toward women and girls, the power of lived experience to promote systems change, and the impact of intergenerational feminist mentorship. Participate in workshops focused on Navigating Gender in AI, Supporting …
Stop by for a free book! To mark Banned Books Week (https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned) we're giving away copies of some recently published books that have been banned or challenged because they address sexuality, race, gender, and other topics. All are welcome, and we're inviting some campus VIPs to participate. This year's theme, "Let Freedom Read!" faces off …
Stop by for a free book! To mark Banned Books Week (https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned) we're giving away copies of some recently published books that have been banned or challenged because they address sexuality, race, gender, and other topics. All are welcome, and we're inviting some campus VIPs to participate. This year's theme, "Let Freedom Read!" faces off …
As a part of the Global South Gender and Sexuality Studies Collective Series, Professor Durba Mitra (Harvard) will be giving a talk titled "Third World Feminism and the Crisis of Authoritarianism".
Want to better understand the identities within the acronym and beyond? This workshop breaks down important language and terminology related gender expansive experiences. Participants will understand important do’s and don'ts related to inclusive and equitable treatment of LGBTQIA+ people and develop strategies for pronoun inclusion, interrupting biases, and being in active allyship. Participants will also …
Throughout the history of social work practice, there has been a focus on subduing “deviance” in individuals as a means of combating larger social problems. “Deviance” being a subjective category, is often used to uphold power structures that only a few truly benefit from. Transness has historically been one of those forms of “deviance,” and …
This paper asks what happens when we examine Levinasian exposure—understood as performative articulation of political concepts—in light of what Fred Moten calls the “social aesthetics of Black radicalism.” It will consider Moten’s critique of Levinas while simultaneously “exposing” the notion of exposure to poetry and rhythm, which can be seen (or heard) as opening his …
Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work. Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and …
Jennifer Nash and Samantha Pinto talk with Aida Levy-Hussen, associate professor of English Language and Literature, about their book series, Black Feminism on the Edge, and about what new and urgent scholarship in Black feminist thought can look like. About the speakers: Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and …
The PSC Brown Bag Series runs live and on Zoom this year, Mondays from noon to 1. Social epidemiologist Kate Duchowny (University of Michigan, SRC) presents this brown bag seminar: "Discordance in chromosomal and self-reported sex in the UK Biobank: Implications for transgender- and intersex-inclusive data collection" Despite recent calls to distinguish between sex and …
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