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.
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.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 7, 2025) — Anastasia Todd, assistant professor of gender and women’s studies in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, will give the inaugural Gaines Lecture for Outstanding Research in the Humanities.
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.
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
