Oct 10, 7:00 PM: Cinema 53: Just Another Girl on the IRT with Leslie Harris,...
Twenty-five years after the development of the âreproductive justiceâ framework in Chicago, Cinema 53 partners with the Chicago Abortion Fund to consider the complex experiences that constitute...
View ArticleOct 11, 5:00 PM: "What Justice Looks Like" Discussion Series
This discussion series centers the voices and experiences of Chicago activists that have been directly affected by and organizing against state violence and mass incarceration. Join activists,...
View ArticleOct 22, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Jane Hereth, â'Where is the safe place?'; Legal...
Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Tuesday, October 22nd: â'Where is the safe place?'; Legal socialization and intersections of police and interpersonal violence among young transgender women"...
View ArticleOct 21, 12:30 PM: Human Rights in Practice: Lunch with Eric Stanley on...
Join Eric Stanley, Assistant Professor of Gender & Womenâs Studies at UC Berkeley, for a discussion of Tourmalineâs 2017 film âThe Personal Things.â The film documents Miss Majorâs...
View ArticleOct 16, 4:30 PM: Champs Elysées Film Festival
This event will include the screening of two very recent award-winning French movies with English subtitles: "Je sors acheter des cigarettes" (13 min.) by Osman Cerfon and "Daniel fait face" (59 min.)...
View ArticleOct 22, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Jane Hereth, “'Where is the safe place?'; Legal...
Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Tuesday, October 22nd: “'Where is the safe place?'; Legal socialization and intersections of police and interpersonal violence among young transgender women" Jane...
View ArticleNov 1, 12:30 PM: Maria Cecilia Hwang, "Unbound and Bound Spheres of...
Maria Cecilia Hwang Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, McGill University"Unbound and Bound Spheres of Globalization: Borders, Markets, and...
View ArticleOct 28, 5:30 PM: Feminist/Queer Praxis: Alison Delpercio
Alison Delpercio, the director of the All Children - All Families project at the Human Rights Campaign will discuss her organization's LGBTQ advocacy within child welfare agencies. Alison and her team...
View ArticleOct 23, 7:00 PM: Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas Film Screening:...
Join us for a screening of Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas's two radical queer/trans movies about disrupting gay weddings, breaking people out of prison, and having each other's backs! We’ll be screening...
View ArticleNov 5, 5:00 PM: GSSW: K.A. Hendricks, "Disparate Treatment versus...
Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Tuesday, November 5th: “Disparate Treatment versus Disparate Impact: Comparing the Legal Logics of Title IX Claims" K.A. Hendricks, Dissertation Fellow and PhD...
View ArticleNov 7, 6:00 PM: Cinema 53: Beloved with Charlene Carruthers and Kaneesha Parsard
Twenty-five years after the development of the “reproductive justice” framework in Chicago, Cinema 53 partners with the Chicago Abortion Fund to consider the complex experiences that constitute “RJ”...
View ArticleNov 7, 7:00 PM: Boys Don't Cry 20th Anniversary Screening with Kimberly Peirce
Director Kimberly Peirce (AB’90) returns to her alma mater to present a twentieth-anniversary screening of her breakthrough film, Boys Don’t Cry. The tragic story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man...
View ArticleNov 15, 2:00 PM: GNSE & CRES Student Affairs Fireside Chat
While you can make an appointment to talk about your major at any time, we know that sometimes it’s easier to know you can just stop in and get your answers quickly. So we’ll be holding office hours in...
View ArticleNov 14, 5:00 PM: Feminist Queer Praxis: Hands Off, Pants On
Join us to get details of a successful Chicago-area labor campaign designed to protect housekeeping staff at hotels from sexual harassment. We’ll hear from one of the labor organizers and one of the...
View ArticleDec 6, 2:00 PM: Study Break: Holiday Cookies Edition
Join us for homemade cookies and hot drinks at a joint study break between The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture! We’ll have...
View ArticleDec 2, 4:30 PM: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, "Beyoncé in Formation:...
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin"Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism" Making headlines when it was...
View ArticleNov 19, 5:00 PM: GSSW: Sneha Annavarapu, "Risky Roads, Safe Suspicions:...
Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop Tuesday, November 19th: "Risky Roads, Safe Suspicions: gender, class, and cabs in Hyderabad, India" Sneha Annavarapu, PhD Candidate, Sociology Discussant: Rochona...
View ArticleDec 12, 7:00 PM: Cinema 53: Little Woods with Brittany Mostiller
In 1994, twelve Black women gathered in Chicago and founded the reproductive justice movement. Naming themselves Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice, they organized around three...
View ArticleFeb 10, 4:00 PM: Linn Tonstand: Diversity and Inclusion speaker series
Linn Tonstad of Yale University Divinity School will give a public lecture as part of our Diversity and Inclusion speaker series, which focuses on issues of race and gender in the study of religion....
View ArticleNov 22, 12:30 PM: Andrea Long Chu: "Females"
Andrea Long Chu joins us to read from her new book, Females (Verso, 2019), followed by a Q&A. “Everyone is female, and everyone hates it.” So begins Andrea Long Chu’s genre-defying investigation...
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