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

How I Teach It: Tough Conversations

How I Teach It

This series highlights innovative pedagogies, with a focus on how scholars across UK's campus teach complex gender and women's studies concepts in their home disciplines. 

Dr. Regina Hamilton-Townsend is an Assistant Professor of English and affiliated faculty in the African American and Africana Studies Program and the Gender and Women's Studies Department at UK. 

45 minute discussion followed by Q&A and lite refreshments and snacks. 

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Alumni Gallery (William T. Young Library)

"Who Counts as a Person? Women, Wombs, and Project 2025"

Lynn Paltrow's talk “Who Counts as a Person? Women, Wombs, and Project 2025,” on Wednesday October 16 at 2pm in Law School Room 291, is co-sponsored by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the J. Rosenberg College of Law. 

Lynn M. Paltrow, JD, is a feminist lawyer who founded Pregnancy Justice (formerly National Advocates for Pregnant Women). 

Last fall the campus faced demonstrators and speakers who claimed that “women are property” and asked, “what is a woman?” This fall we are making space on our campus for equal time for scholarly analysis that does not presume that a woman is property or a “what” instead of “who.” 

For more than 30 years, Ms. Paltrow pioneered legal advocacy that acknowledged how abortion and pregnancy are not separate issues. Come and learn how all people with the capacity for pregnancy – not just those seeking to end a pregnancy – are harmed by the loss of Roe v Wade and what we can do about it now.

 

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Room 291, J. David Rosenberg College of Law

Dean's List 2024

KYGWS Conference: Justice on Trial

GWS held the 5th KYGWS Conference on August 31, 2024.  The theme was "Justice on Trial" and featured several panels and a keynote address by Dr. Sameena Mulla, Emory University. 

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