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.
Please join us for the Department of Gender & Women's Studies annual awards day when we will recognize the academic achievements of GWS undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.
In this talk, Lentjes discusses her upcoming academic paper, "Ultra/Sound: The Antiabortion Weaponization of Sonic Vitalism," which examines how the United States antiabortion movement wields obstetric technology, such as ultrasound and fetal cardiac activity tests, as a tool for subjugating pregnant people. Through a process Lentjes terms 'sonic vitalism', the antiabortion movement successfully politicizes and weaponizes acoustic technology, lending credibility to the fiction of fetal personhood and then broadcasting it in the medical, legal and sociocultural spheres. Lentjes' paper argues that antiabortion sonic vitalism engenders not only a discursive construction of the fetus-as-person, but also a lived reality in which pregnant people are literally denied healthcare every day.
GWS & Journaling
Come eat pizza and junk journal with GWS while you learn about the GWS program and courses.
No supplies are needed.
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.
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.
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.
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
