Gender Panic at the Disco: an Intro to Trans Rights
Gender Panic at the Disco: An Introduction to Trans Rights
Thursday, April 20th, 11:00am-12:15pm via Zoom
What are trans rights? This presentation explores the history and evolution of transgender rights, situating them in the broader context of LGBTQ rights and women’s rights and introducing the concept of gender autonomy as a civil liberty. Using the frame of gender panic, it will also discuss the politics of transgender identity amidst the current wave of anti-trans policies and legislation and outline strategies for resilience and resistance in this climate of crisis
Zoom meeting ID: 853 8380 9412
WGSS Student Symposium- this Thursday April!
WGSS Student Symposium
04.20.2023 USU Ballrooms A & B 9:30am – 3:00pm
Join the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies during the week of ‘Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity’ to celebrate our students’ creative and scholarly works. WGSS students will present their semester and year-long projects from several different classes, including: Gendering Environmental Justice (WGSS 424), Feminist Theories (WGSS 300), Intro to Queer Studies (WGSS 205), Pop Culture: Seeing Sex and Gender, and Queering Gender (WGSS 365), and Gender, Race, Sex, and the Body (WGSS 101).
Coordinated by WGSS Chair, Dr. Lori Baralt, and WGSS lecturer, Dr. Anat Schwartz.
Queer Zine Workshop with WGSS 205 on 3/23
Interested in zines and queer zine-making? Join students in WGSS 205: Intro to Queer Studies in a workshop facilitated by Dr. Anat Schwartz, WGSS lecturer. The workshop will include craft supplies and instructions on how to create your own DIY and digital zines.
The workshop will take place on Thursday, March 23rd from 9:30-10:45am in LA5 250.
For any questions, please email Dr. Anat Schwartz (anat.schwartz@csulb.edu).
Book Talk with Kavitha Koshy- 4/27
Come join us for a book talk to discuss Dr. Kavitha Koshy’s new book, The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines. Discussants will include Dr. Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson (Sociology) and Dr. Justin Gomer (American Studies).
Thursday, April 27, 2023
5:00-6:30pm
Anatol Patio (next to AS building)
Light refreshments will be provided
In The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines, Kavitha Koshy offers a timely exploration of Indian immigrant racialization at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is a call to action for an anti-racist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. The findings of the research uncover the paradoxes of claiming deracialized, neoliberal identities, while engaging in racial contestation, benefiting from selective immigration while occupying a racialized-human capital-labor “slot” in global capitalism, and experiencing “racialized otherness” through everyday racism, despite proximity to whiteness. Koshy develops a typology of Indian immigrant racialized subjectivity amid anti-Blackness, whiteness, caste-ness, Islamophobia, “forever foreignness,” and neoliberal logic.
Book Talk with Diana W. Anselmo
Diana Anselmo, a new tenure-track faculty member in the Film & Electronic Arts Department will being having a book talk on her recently published book entitled A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood, this Thursday, March 9th at 6:30pm in the Kleefield Contemporary Art Museum. Dr. Anselmo will also being teaching our cross-listed course, WGSS 316: Women in the History of U.S. Film, in the semesters that it is staffed through the FEA Department and is developing a new course on Queer Film & Media to be cross-listed, which FEA is requesting to cross-list with our department so it would be great if folks could attend and meet her.
Virtual Book Talk- Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh
Join a virtual book talk about Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh. The talk will feature the author, Elora Halim Chowdhury, with UC Riverside’s Tammy Ho as the discussant. The virtual event takes place Thursday, February 23 12:30-2:00pm.
Save the Date: Helena Maria Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o/x Literature on March 16
Save the Date! The Helena Maria Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o/x Literature event is taking place Thursday, March 16, 2023. More information on the event can be found here: https://www.viramonteslecture.com/
WGSS 205 (Queer Studies) Student Work
Check out the semester projects our WGSS 205 students completed this fall 2022!
Successful WGSS 300 Student Exhibition!
On Monday, December 5, students from WGSS 300 displayed their research projects. These projects ranged from zines, podcasts, posters, PowerPoint presentations, and more! Check out photos from the event below. Great job, WGSS students!
Intimate Critique: Toward a Feminism from Within
Please join us to hear Dr. Khanum Shaikh (CSUN) guest speak at this event. The talk creates space for thinking about gender and activism, resistance and agency, in ways that do not erase the complex relationships and social contexts that shape the individuals who resist from within. It is an account of the daily maneuverings of choice and selfhood as embedded and negotiated in social contexts and communities, within sites of cultural reproduction.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022; 12:30-1:45pm in LA5 154
