Fifty years after the Ivy League’s first women’s studies program was established at Cornell, the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program is celebrating its anniversary with a multidisciplinary event series. Centering collaboration, the program has partnered with alumni, students and professors in several departments to commemorate their progress and organize for their future.
The FGSS program anniversary coincides with the 30-year anniversary of the LGBT studies program, founded in 1994. A year-long series of events running through May 2022, including a roster of feminist and queer speakers across departments, is honoring the anniversary, alongside other events such as a theater history series and alumni events in New York City.
As the anniversary continues, Warner noted that the anniversary is both an opportunity for celebration and constructive examination.
“It’s really important to celebrate queer joy and trans joy,” Warner said. “We’ve made a lot of gains nationally and internationally, but we are definitely at a moment when people are trying to roll back those rights for women, for queers and for transgender people. We have to remain ever vigilant.”
