DEPARTMENT OF GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATION We, faculty in the department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, write to express our support for the Graduate...- Professor Nguyen talks about art, punk, and politics. Art Now is an award-winning mini-documentary series that has produced over 80 episodes on local artists working in Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding areas since July 2010. A joint production by the Urbana Public Arts Program and...
- Check out GWS alum Sarah Alo (2012) and her collaborators Flavia Borges and Devon Carson in MENACE, a micro-series on Instagram! "Ana, Daisy and Jane never planned to know their neighbors, but when alerts encourage women to protect themselves they forfeit their fierce independence to hide out...
Prominently mentioned in her Vermont legislative bio is the history future state Rep. Kiah Morris ('06) was a part of in the mid-2000s at Illinois. “A place that is close to my heart is the old Women’s Studies house. I spent so many days there...
Prof. Toby Beauchamp's essay ("When Things Don't Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics") in Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/ Homo Normativities, has been awarded the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center of Lesbian and Gay Studies. The...- Women’s studies programs began popping up at universities around the country in the 1960s, and today, the academic discipline is still on the rise. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of women’s and gender studies degrees in...
- We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We unequivocally answer and amplify the call from the Palestinian Feminist Collective for “feminists everywhere to speak up, organize, and join the struggle for Palestinian liberation.”...