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WGS 391: Title IX @ 50 - Summer 2022

In 2022, Title IX turns 50. In this course we will investigate this landmark statute through the lenses of gender, the law, race, class, ability, and a variety of other lenses. More information on this course.

WGS 398: Professional Practice in WGS - Spring 2022

In collaboration with Milner Library, the WGSS Program seeks students to help organize and plan the WGSS @ ISU 50th Anniversary Retrospective to be held AY 2022-2023. Students enrolled in WGS 398: Professional Practice Internship in WGSS will work with the Assistant Director of WGSS and Milner Library to archive and curate materials, and conduct oral histories, to showcase the Program’s vital history. Email jlgolds1@ilstu.edu for more information.

WGS 120: Gender, Sex, and Power

An interdisciplinary introduction to how gender and other structures of domination shape societies; how individual and collective actions engage and transform these structures. More information on this course.

Queer Studies Concentration

This stand-alone concentration focuses on LGBTQIA+ histories, political movements, aesthetics, arts, cultures, literatures, scholarship, contemporary experiences, and social formations.

Requirements: WGS 120, WGS 292, WGS 392, and one additional elective. Find out more!.

Call for artifacts

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program seeks artifacts (photographs, brochures, posters, correspondences, etc.) related to the Annual Symposium, and the program more generally, to be featured in a series of upcoming online and physical exhibits celebrating the 25th Annual Symposium and the 50th Anniversary of the Program. Lenders will retain ownership of any artifact selected for exhibition. To submit an artifact, email wgstudies@ilstu.edu.

131: A Collaborative Art Exhibition by MFA students in Rachel Cooper Gallery

Peytin Fitzgerald, Sarah Eckstine, Cooper Gibson, Nicci Arnold, and Ian Cooper present their work from March 30 to August 1, 2022! Come by the second floor of Rachel Cooper (The WGSS office) and check it out! If you have questions, email wgstudies@ilstu.edu.

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Title IX discussion with Alexandra Brodsky, June 8To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark statute Title IX, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Illinois State University will host a discussion with civil rights attorney, author, and co-founder of Know Your IX, Alexandra Brodsky.

Toro-Morn to deliver CAS Spring Lecture on April 25, 2022Dr. Maura Toro-Morn, professor of sociology and director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, will deliver the 2022 Spring College Lecture at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 25 in Section I of the Brown Ballroom in the Bone Student Center. Her lecture, “Gendered Migrations in the Age of Global [...]

Illinois State student and ISU F.L.A.M.E. member Kristina Harlow helps hoist The Clothesline.

RESCHEDULED: The Clothesline Project from student survivors, April 19The shirts in the Clothesline Project are designed over the past 25 years by student survivors on the ISU campus.

2022 WGSS Student Research Symposium, April 1-15Speakers for the symposium, running April 1-14, will include internationally known author Arlene Stein, advocate Veronica Ivy, scholar Karma R. Chávez, and illustrator Maia Kobabe.

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