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The Bandana Project

A&S Wired Students in partnership with the VIP Center, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and College of Arts & Sciences gathered in Keeneland Hall and created bandanas to raise awareness and support of people experiencing exploitation in communities both near and far.

"Post Kamala: Learning from Black Women's Politics Post 2024 Elections"

This talk examines the role of Black women in the 2024 elections and Kamala Harris' failed bid for the White House.  Moving forward, what can Black women-and Black feminists in particular-teach us about liberatory politics that will allow for self-preservation during a 2nd Trump administration?

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Alumni Gallery

How I Wrote It Series

We will be discussing Dr. Akiko Takenaka’s new book, Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Postwar Japan, forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press. Dr. Carol Mason (Otis A. Singletary Professor of the Humanities and Prof. of GWS and English) will guide our conversation. 
 
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Alumni Gallery

Lecture: Dr. Tamar Shirinian

Title:  "The Figure of the Homosexual:  Right-Wing Nationalism, Sexual Perversion, and the Crisis in Social Reproduction"

In 2012-2014, a right-wing panic took hold of mainstream media and social networking sites in the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia. Within the rhetoric of this panic, homosexuals and the concept of "gender" were leading to the annihilation of the nation as it existed. These notions of national annihilation were expressed through the dangerous mechanism of "sexual perversion." It might be easy to dismiss some of the absurd narratives of these panics,f or instance that the homosexual and the concept of "gender" were leading to children no longer recognizing their parents as mother and father or to not know if they were themselves boys or girls and thus would lead to a failure in reproducing a next generation. In this talk I argue that a nuanced analysis of the elements of these panics reveals real, material underlying anxieties about social reproduction. I trace these narratives about the homosexual's destruction of Armenian society to contemporary panics regarding transgender persons in the U.S. to reveal a pattern of the intimate and moral dimensions of global economic crisis.

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CP 222

How I Wrote It: Aria Halliday

Please join the GWS community for the latest edition of our ongoing “How I Wrote It” event. Dr. Aria Halliday will be discussing the process of writing her new book, Black Girls and How We Fail Them, forthcoming from UNC Press. Dr. Thais Council (Asst. Prof of Literacy in the College of Education) will help guide our conversation.

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Alumni Gallery

CANCELLED: "Post-Kamala: Learning from Black Women's Politics Post 2024 Elections"

This event has been cancelled for Feb 13 and will be rescheduled for a later date.  Thank you. 

This talk examines the role of Black women in the 2024 elections and Kamala Harris' failed bid for the White House.  Moving forward, what can Black women-and Black feminist in particular-teach us about liberatory politics that will allow for self-preservation during a 2nd Trump administration?

Sponsored by Gender & Women's Studies and Political Science

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Cancelled

"Integrating the Disabled Girl, Cripping the Health Humanities"

2025 GAINES LECTURE FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES
 
Join the UK Gaines Center on February 20th at 4:00PM for the inaugural Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities, "Integrating the Disabled Girl, Cripping the Health Humanities" featuring Assistant Professor, Anastasia Todd, for our Year on Health and the Humanities. Register here!

Anastasia Todd is an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research is at the intersection of feminist disability studies and girlhood studies. She is the author of Cripping Girlhood (University of Michigan Press, 2024), which was awarded the 2022 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. Her work has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Societies, NEOS, Girlhood Studies, and Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.

 
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Niles Gallery
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