Gender and Women's Studies @ WMU

We keep each other safe.

Welcome back to Fall semester! We're excited to begin a new academic year. GWS is offering a mixture of in-person and online classes this Fall, and our main office is open every weekday. Stop by to say hello -- with masks on. We look forward to seeing (half of) everyone's faces.

New Location / SAME date - September 12th !

A recent study found that 35% of LGBTQ+ adults 18 to 40 (about 2.9 million adults) are carrying more than $93.2B in federal student loans. Small scholarships make a difference. Please contribute to OutFront's Terry Kuseske LGBTQ+ Youth Scholarship Fund: bit.ly/3zukOoB

A little late to but still important to celebrate -

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3 - And last but not least we are pleased to announce that Ilana Nash, Associate Professor in GWS, is our new chairperson. Welcome to Dr. Nash.

2- to ensure maximum safety for our staff, faculty, and students GWS will be operating remotely. We are offering a variety of highly enrolled classes online, and our department staff will be accessible for meetings and assistance via email, telephone, and video conferencing.

As we start this fall semester GWS has a couple of announcements:

Our visions of justice may be dismissed and trivialized, even by our own institutions, but we will remain fierce in holding leaders, allies, and ourselves accountable. #BlackLivesMattter #JusticeForFloyd @WesternMichU @nwsa @WMU_CAS @WMUSoM @TAUAFT @MLive

Pride month starts in 3 days. Pride isn't brought to you by T-Mobile and Absolut Vodka. It was brought to you by drag queens, trans women throwing bricks. By lesbians and queer women taking care of gay men dying of AIDS in the face of an intentional government neglect.

People are still saying “the virus doesn’t discriminate,” in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. We are not equally “all in this together.” diverseeducation.com/article/178481/

In this podcast, WMU’s own GWS professor and chair, Dr. Susan Freeman, explores the “double-edged sword” of WWII for LGBTQ people. Another reminder of how GWS scholarship and activism impact our communities and shape our future! #lgbt #queer @WesternMichU #WMU @WMU_CAS #kalamazoo

WMU Gender and Women’s Studies’ hard-won departmental status is at risk and we need your voices! @nwsa bit.ly/3fQjVxu

Vulnerable folks will pay the highest price during the pandemic, so the National Women’s Studies Association has urged universities to remain faithful to their GWS departments. Tracy Hall agrees. @nwsa @WesternMichU @wwmtnews @WMU_CAS #feminism #lgbt #PureMichigan @SaveWMU

Memorial Day is a reminder that military service has led to both inclusion and exclusion. Historian Susan Freeman examines how WWII brought gay men and lesbians together, and the ways it isolated them from the right to serve and benefit from their service. tolerance.org/podcasts/queer…

Yes this a thousand times this: “Feminism has never, for five minutes, been about lock step.” nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opi…