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The Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program offers students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBT critical analysis, in a global context and with the purpose of promoting social justice.
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College, will deliver the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on April 15: “Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century.”
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Looking closely at the archaic genealogy of gods and humans in Hesiod, and Approaching questions of genos through (post)structuralist conceptions of kinship, we will see how patriarchal kinship strives to determine the truth of genealogy and inheritance, while women’s relationship to truth is relent...
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Drawing on resources as disparate as abolition democracy, prison abolition, reproductive justice, Marxism, and transfeminism, gender abolitionists often grapple with (and are called to grapple with) competing conceptualizations of abolition—how it works, what it looks like, and by what means it is a...
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Eve Iulo is a third-year student at Cornell University, pursuing an interdisciplinary major in Feminist Media Studies and Technologies with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. See Eve's article, "Policing Pleasure: Prevailing Feminist Tensions with Neoliberal Governance and Power as...
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"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.
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"Sanctuary from the Storm: Making (My) Room with The Torkelsons," will explore Sheppard’s fondness for the 1990s television show and what the show’s representation of home spaces can tell us about the way television influences living practices.
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Lette Bragg, visiting assistant professor of English at Swarthmore College, received her Ph.D. in the Department of Literatures in English, with a concentration in FGSS, in 2018.
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This course will introduce students to the LGBTQAI+ umbrella experience through interactions with community partners and scholars specializing in issues of power, desire, sex, gender, race, and sexuality.
Read moreCornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.