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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.

Visiting Speaker: Dr. Jina Kim

Dr. Jina Kim, associate professor of English language and literature and of the study of women and gender at Smith College, will be presenting an overview of her new book, "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing."

This book examines literature by contemporary authors, including Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany and Aurora Levins Morales, arguing that these authors highlight alternate structures of care organized around reciprocity and mutual support.

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Alumni Gallery (William T. Young Library)

At 61, Bernadine McGhee became a first-generation college graduate. Her degree was 40 years in the making.

By Francis Von Mann

LEXINGTON, KY. (Nov. 12, 2025) – Bernadine “Bernie” McGhee never imagined herself with a college degree. But in 2022 at 61, McGhee crossed the stage of Rupp Arena with a bachelor's degree in liberal studies from the College of Arts and Sciences.

GWS & Social Work: Dual Degree and AMP Pathways

Are you committed to social change and social justice? Check out several new opportunities to pair your GWS major with an undergraduate or graduate degree in Social Work and use what you’re learning in the classroom to change the world for the better!

The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and the College of Social Work have partnered to offer students pathways to a dual degree, and it’s easier than you think! See for yourself with these sample four-year plans for a SW primary/GWS secondary or a GWS primary/SW secondary degree. 

How I Wrote It: Dr. Carol Mason

Please join us for the first installment of the GWS series "How I Wrote It". 

Dr. Carol Mason (Professor, Gender & Women's Studies) will be discussing her new book From the Clinics to the Capitol:  How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary.  Dr. Greg Davis (Professor Emeritus, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) will guide our discussion 

 

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Alumni Gallery (William T. Young Library)

"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
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