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Legislating Gender: A Conversation

Legislating Gender: A Conversation

Featured speakers will be Dr. Paisley Currah and Dr. Kaila Story

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Legislating Gender

Legislating Gender

2024 Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies welcomes Dr. Paisley Currah this year.

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Reproductive Altar

Reproductive Altar

A Reproductive Freedom Panel will be hosted on September 14 on the day the Altar is opened

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Auerbach Lecture 2023

Auerbach Lecture 2023

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies has successfully hosted the 2023 Minx Auerbach Lecture on the evening of February 23 at Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium Auditorium.

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Community Herbal Gathering

Community Herbal Gathering

The Community Herbal Gathering (CHG) is a new initiative developed by Prof. Shelby Pumphrey (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies) and co-sponsored by the Pan-African Studies Department and Play Cousins Collective, a local community organization rooted in African ancestral methods of healing, resilience, and liberation.

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America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice

2023 Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies welcomes Dr. Treva Lindsey this year. Dr. Treva Lindsey is a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University and co-founder of the Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House. She is the author of America, Goddam:Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice (2022).

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Racing With Sex Hormones

Racing With Sex Hormones

2021 Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies welcomes Dr. Rebecca Jordan-Young this year. Dr. Jordan Young is an interdisciplinary feminist scientist and science studies scholar whose work explores the reciprocal relations between science and the social hierarchies of gender, sexuality, class, and race. She is the author of Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences; and Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography.

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This Talk Will Boost Your Testosterone! Examining Claims Around Sex Hormones

This Talk Will Boost Your Testosterone! Examining Claims Around Sex Hormones

The 2020 Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will be presented by Dr. Rebecca Jordan-Young on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 5:30 PM in Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium.

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UofL adds new LBTQ+ academic certificate

UofL adds new LBTQ+ academic certificate

Professors at the University of Louisville say it's the first of its kind in the country. Thursday, UofL's board of trustees approved a new academic certificate.

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ABI, headed by WGST professor Dr. Cate Fosl, receives award for research on history of the LGBTQ movement in Kentucky

ABI, headed by WGST professor Dr. Cate Fosl, receives award for research on history of the LGBTQ movement in Kentucky

The Anne Braden Institute received the 2019 southern regional W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award. The award was given for their work with the Fairness Campaign to research and write the 1st LGBTQ State Historic Context in the nation, housed at the National Park Service.

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Why STEM Students Need Gender Studies

Gender studies scholarship and practice contribute to student development and to faculty networking.

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Cardinal Experience: Meet Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology major McClain Owens

Cardinal Experience: Meet Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology major McClain Owens

McClain is a senior Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology major from Lexington. She found her passion for social justice while at UofL. "UofL is a place you can find yourself."

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Making the Invisible Visible

If you think nobody needs a women's and gender studies class, you need a women's and gender studies class.

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WGS launches 100% online B.A. degree

WGS launches 100% online B.A. degree

Students can now obtain a Bachelor of Arts in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies entirely online.

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Growing and Glowing

Growing and Glowing

Every Monday, a group of African-American middle-school girls gathers at the Louisville Urban League to talk, reflect on their experiences, and be inspired. This is the Girls League of the West, or GLOW, a weekly afterschool program established by A&S students Maya White and Mahogany Mayfield in partnership with the Louisville Urban League.

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Sociology/WGS Faculty and Graduate Students Co-Author Study on Motherhood, Media, and Body

Sociology/WGS Faculty and Graduate Students Co-Author Study on Motherhood, Media, and Body

Karen Christopher (Sociology/WGS), Brittany M. Williams (WGS M.A., 2013), and Jennifer Sinski (PhD candidate, Sociology) recently published an exploration of the ways mothers' perceptions of their own postpartum bodies are affected by popular magazine profiles of celebrity moms. The project grew out of Williams's Master's thesis.

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