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Upcoming Events (5)
Displaced Bodies, Remembered Homes: Exile in 20th-Century Spanish Literature
Tue, Sep 8, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
What does home mean to you? This interactive workshop invites participants to reflect on the meanings of home and the ideas and feelings we associate with it before exploring what happens when...
Brown Bag: Porque Estamos Aqui: Presencing Puerto Rican Feminisms
Tue, Sep 22, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
Puerto Ricans have been colonial “citizen” subjects of the US empire for 128 years—our sovereignty denied, our land stolen and sold, our histories maligned and/or absent, and our rights of...
Brown Bag: Black Sex Economies and Placemaking in a US Bordertown
Tue, Sep 29, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
Disreputable Women is a deeply transdisciplinary study of how Black women use sex work and place-making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city intent on displacing and...
Embodied Liberations: Indigenous Epistemologies as Poetic Practice
Tue, Oct 6, 2026 11:30am
An apology entered into the record. A mascot retired. A monument dismantled. What if liberation is not something we seek outside ourselves, but a practice we carry in the body? Following the work...
Endometriosis, Psychiatric Gynecology, Reproductive Politics of Female Disorder
Tue, Dec 1, 2026 11:30am to 1pm
This talk examines the clinical machinery linking gynecology and psychiatry in the early- to mid-20th century, where chronic illness and reproductive pain were transformed into proof of female...
Recent Events
Snack and Craft with the Center for Women's Studies
Fri, Jul 17, 2026 4pm to 6pm
Join the Center for Women's Studies for a relaxing snack-and-craft community event. We'll enjoy some snacks while trying out the feminist crafts of collage and zine-making. All are welcome.
Chatterbox: Let's Talk Appropriation
Wed, Apr 29, 2026 5pm to 6:30pm
Please join us as we collaborate with the Sisters of the Round Table for a discussion on appropriation. We will discuss linguistic appropriation of African American Vernacular English on social...
WGSS Senior Capstone Presentations
Tue, Apr 28, 2026 11:30am
Join us as we support our Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies seniors present their capstone projects. Lunch will be provided.
What is a Forest Garden and What Can You Plant in One?
Thu, Apr 16, 2026 12:15pm to 1:15pm
Learn about creating a forest garden and the many native plants that you can start with! Dani Baker, author of "The Home-Scale Forest Garden: How to Plan, Plant and Tend a Resilient Edible...
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Art Workshop with Jessica Elena Aquino
Wed, Apr 15, 2026 2:45pm to 5pm
Following her Brown Bag on April 14, Jessica Elena Aquino invites us to explore how our own voices and artistic expression can address questions of justice, identity, and visibility while...
Intersections of AI: Ethics of Humanity and Sustainability
Wed, Apr 15, 2026 12pm to 1:15pm
Artificial intelligence is often framed as a tool for innovation and progress, but the systems that power it have unseen costs, such as material resources, energy, and human labor. We'll explore AI...
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