Dear all -- if you plan on going to the teach in tomorrow (Wed. 5:30 on the grass between the Cook Field Track and the FSB parking lot) you may wish to bring a field blanket or stadium seat so that we can sit comfortably. I will try to bring some extra chairs. We will be gathering "Freedom Summer" style, although I can't promise guitars..
photo from http://w3.iac.net/~mcguffey/OxfordHistory/freedom_summer/
At WGS we take care of our people. Please show Alandis how much we love and value her. Please give. Any amount will help her.
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for- F-Week is right around the corner! The F-Word (Feminists Working on Real Democracy) invites you to join us for the following activities:
Darkmatter: Sunday, April 3 at 7PM, Armstrong Pavilion C
DARKMATTER is a trans south asian performance art duo comprised of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian.
They will perform their show #ItGetsBitter. From darkmatterpoetry.com: "#ItGetsBitter is an interruption: a hybrid mixture of ...art and activism, poetry and polemic, giggles and gasps. #ItGetsBitter is a remix of spoken word, stand up comedy, fashion, and nursery rhymes. DarkMatter shares stories of navigating the world in all of its ordinariness and peculiarity as trans South Asians, taking the audience on an emotional roller coaster all of the way from the personal to the political. Join us for an evening of poetry and healing as we not only critique – but imagine new ways of being and resisting together."
This event is sponsored by F-Word, Spectrum, and SPEAK.
Trans 101: Tuesday, April 5th from 6-7 PM, Armstrong Community Lounge 2048
We will have an abridged version of GLBTQ Service’s Trans 101 training open to all at our regular general body meeting. It’s a flexible presentation, so if you would like a specific topic addressed, email Peyton at wumj@miamioh.edu.
Safer Sex Fest: Thursday, April 7th from 6-9 PM in Armstrong Community Lounge 2048
Join us for a festival of fun, inclusive sex education, including workshops by professors and sex educators. Free food, information, and useful goodies abound!
This event is sponsored by F-Word and Spectrum.
Take Back the Night: Monday, April 11th. Speakouts start at 6PM in Kreger 222 and the march starts at 7 PM by the Armstrong Seal. Speakouts are a safe and supportive space for survivors to come share their stories. Counselors from Student Counseling Services will be available. The march will meet at the seal and then we will march to Uptown Park where we will read a poem and see a dance performance.
For more information, email our F-Week chair at feldmaa4@miamioh.edu
Come hear this exciting lecture next week--Nona Landis will unpack the politics of race, gender, empire, and transnationalism in visual narratives next Wednesday, March 30, at 4pm in Irvine 40!
This lecture is sponsored by the MU Comics Scholars group.
Thanks to everyone who came to Dr. Grace Hong's talk on women of color feminism as a powerful rejoinder to neoliberalism's violences. There was standing room only in MacMillan 212!
Congratulations to WGS major Derek James for receiving admission offers from the University of Minnesota (Family Social Science MA/PhD) and the University of Chicago (MA Program in the Social Sciences)!
A great postdoc opportunity!
Postdoctoral Scholar
Center for Research on Violence Against Women and College of Arts and Sciences
University of Kentucky
The Center for Research on Violence A...gainst Women (CRVAW) and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky seek applications from junior scholars in the social science disciplines of Sociology, Criminology, or Psychology, whose research specialization is violence against women, particularly minority women and women from understudied or underserved groups. The appointment will begin August 1, 2016 with a term of two years and potential for renewal for a third year based on satisfactory performance and funding availability. The Postdoctoral Scholar must be in residence at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY for the duration of the appointment.
The primary responsibilities of the appointment include: research and publication of her/his work, interaction with graduate and undergraduate students as well as faculty, teach one course each semester in her/his home department, give at least one public lecture, participate in CRVAW projects and research activities, and contribute to the intellectual life of the College. A member of the Center’s faculty will serve as a mentor during the appointment and will meet on a regular basis.
The annual salary for the appointment will be $50,000, and includes a benefits package.
Applicants must have been awarded a Ph.D. by the time the appointment begins. Preference will be given to recent recipients of the doctoral degree. The application deadline is April 1, 2016.
Interested applicants should apply online at: http://ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/97883. Applications must include the following: a cover letter that describes your research interests, your potential contributions to the research activities of the CRVAW, and the courses you are prepared to teach as well as your teaching philosophy; current curriculum vitae; and a 1-2 page description of a proposed research project that you plan to conduct during the appointment, including specific objectives, significance, and research design (upload under Specific Request 1). Also provide the names and contact information for at least three references when prompted. This information will be utilized to solicit recommendation letters from your references within the employment system.
Information about the Center for Research on Violence Against Women may be found at http://www.research.uky.edu/crvaw/. Information about the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Departments of Sociology and Psychology, may be found at https://www.as.uky.edu/.
The University of Kentucky is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity University that values diversity and is located in an increasingly diverse geographical region. It is committed to becoming one of the top public institutions in the country. Women, persons with disabilities, and members of other underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA
"Women of Color Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the Impossible Politics of Difference"
March 15, 2016 at 4pm, MacMillan 212
...Meeting with Graduate Students at 2-3pm in Bachelor 341
Death beyond Disavowal utilizes “difference” as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism.
According to Grace Kyungwon Hong, neoliberalism is first and foremost a structure of disavowal enacted as a reaction to the successes of the movements for decolonization, desegregation, and liberation of the post–World War II era. It emphasizes the selective and uneven affirmation and incorporation of subjects and ideas that were formerly categorically marginalized, particularly through invitation into reproductive respectability. It does so in order to suggest that racial, gendered, and sexualized violence and inequity are conditions of the past, rather than the foundations of contemporary neoliberalism’s exacerbation of premature death. Neoliberal ideologies hold out the promise of protection from premature death in exchange for complicity with this pretense.
In Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation and Waiting in the Wings, Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Ana Castillo’s So Far from God, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston, Inge Blackman’s B. D. Women, Rodney Evans’s Brother to Brother, and the work of the late Barbara Christian, Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase.
Hong posits cultural production as a compelling rejoinder to neoliberalism’s violences. She situates women of color feminism, often dismissed as narrow or limited in its effect, as a potent diagnosis of and alternative to such violences. And she argues for the importance of women of color feminism to any critical engagement with contemporary neoliberalism.
Dr. Hong is the author of The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Cultures of Immigrant Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). She is also the co-editor (with Roderick Ferguson) of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University Press, 2011) and the Difference Incorporated book series at the University of Minnesota Press.
This event is sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Literature Program (English), the Graduate Program (English), the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (GIC), the Asian/Asian American Studies Program (GIC), and the Department of Educational Leadership.
What is feminism to you?
To me, feminism is action that is grounded in the belief that every person is equally and fully human and valuable. It also includes creating a world where all work — like the work of caring for families — is truly recognized, accounted for, valued, and protected. The feminist vision of the world is one where people bring the best of who they are to the table and try to nurture that in each other.
A great write up about Professor Roxanne Ornelas' students study tour to Netherlands. Dr Ornelas has been teaching at MUDEC this year and is doing awesome work with her students on the intersectionality between gender and environmentalism. http://www.wecf.eu/…/ar…/2016/02/Gender-workshop-Utrecht.php
WGS couldn't be prouder of the achievements of our professors.Professor Mad Detloff,Tammy L. Brown, Katie Johnson, Helane Adams Androne, Moira Casey, Tory Pearman. We are proud of all that you do as teacher-scholar-activists for WGS in Middletown, Hamilton and Oxford. Congratulations!!!!!!
Join MU faculty member Dr. Detloff and MU WGS Certificate Alumna Lisa Blankenship for our roundtable discussion on Gender and (anti)Social Media on January 8, 2016 from 1:45–3:00 p.m. Central Time (2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time).
You can join us online via live tweet at #mla16genderandmedia or via the comments stream at genderandantisocialmedia.org. Here are the guiding questions for our discussion:
1. Social media has exponentially increased the public scope of gender... and sexuality based bullying and harassment- Gamergate, Tyler Clementine, Izabel Laxamana, Cheryl Abbate, and countless other cyberbullying or cyber harassment examples–what can we do about this phenomenon?
2. As a counter to the above examples, social media has also exponentially increased the reach of activist and social justice movements from Malala’s blogging, Black Lives Matter (sparked by the cyber activism of three Black women), Say Her Name, Trans POCC, and many other examples. How to we best harness the transformative potential of social media while intervening in the antisocial aspects?
Feel free to contribute your comments and stories before the panel via the comments section of our blog. This roundtable is part of the MLA Presidential theme of Literature and its Publics.
Congratulations to our very own Dr Nicolazzo who earned the WGS grad certificate last yeat! Way to go Z!
Congratulations to Professor Christina Owens for receiving an honorable mention for her most excellent essay from the American Studies Association. The Comparative Ethnic Studies Essay Prize is awarded by the Committee on Ethnic Studies for the best paper to be presented at the annual meeting in critical ethnic studies in comparative, transnational and global contexts. Finalist mention goes to Christina for her paper "Traveling Yellow Peril and Other Miseries of Neoliberal Globalization.
