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Prof. Emma Velez Discusses Residency in Aotearoa New Zealand
During Fall 2024, GWS Assistant Professor Emma Velez was a scholar-in-residence at Waipapa Taumata Rau (Auckland University) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Read more about the experience here!
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Repro Justice Micro-Syllabus
Learn more about reproductive activism through a collection of teaching materials on Reproductive In/Justice from our faculty. These resources will continue to be updated.
Politics of Fashion
Clothing is a medium for fashioning identities from commodities, and it is hardly surprising that political and social tensions are embodied in its fabrications. The politics of dress indicates inseparable links between cultures, aesthetics, and politics.
Latinx Feminisms
This course examines Latinx feminist thinking in its complex and uneven genealogies. In order to maintain these complexities, we will consider texts from a range differently situated thinkers in order to think more deeply about Latinx feminisms.
Digital and Gender Cultures
This interdisciplinary course uses the lens of gender critique and pairs it with social activism to provide students analytical tools to engage with, reshape, and create digital cultures. Examines recent research and public policies related to the gendered, raced, and classes dimensions of digital cultures and inequality
Transnational Sexualities
Investigates the ways in which sexual identities change as national contexts change, as borders are imagined, valued, and crossed, and as definitions of race, gender, and religion shift.
Queer Lives, Queer Politics
This course investigates queer lives in relation to dominant ideas about “deviance” and “equal rights”. Students will learn conceptual and qualitative methods to investigate issues related to queer lives.