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.
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
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?
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.
