Resistance Is Fertile honors the founding moment of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, while speaking to the present. The institute was established because faculty members believed that research on women, gender, and sexuality required an institutional commitment to thrive. That belief was itself a form of resistance—to disciplinary silos, to marginalization, to … Read more
An immediate question for scholars of – and activists in – the women’s movement is whether it will be able to mobilize a new generation activists to re-fight battles that were seemingly won long ago. The January 21st Women’s March on Washington was a significant first effort to mobilize women as women in the Trump … Read more
CEW+ Advocacy: Catalysts for Change Join CEW+ for an inspirational evening featuring a student fellowship poster session, lightning lectures from faculty recipients of the inaugural CEW+Inspire Award, and the keynote Christobel Kotelawela Weerasinghe lecture by international and award-winning activist, Wai Wai Nu, who is working for human rights and women’s equality for the Rohingya people … Read more
The Department of Education proposed new regulations on Title IX and campus sexual violence. You can read them here: https://bit.ly/2A4POhD. The Department of Education solicits public input on their proposed regulations (it’s called a “notice and comment” period). The Department is required to respond to this input before issuing its final regulations. A court can strike … Read more
New York’s streets were turbulent and often violent in the 1980s and 1990s, as residents responded to social changes in their city as well national and international developments. The City was ground zero for the AIDS epidemic and a center of avant-garde art as well as queer and feminist activism. It was also home to … Read more
Dr. Maylei Blackell, Associate Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, Women’s Studies Department, and affiliated faculty in the American Indian Studies and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) Dr. María Eugenia Cotera, Associate Professor, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, Women’s Studies, University of Michigan Dr. Elena Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Latin … Read more
From Negritude, to the Anti-Apartheid movement, to Mizrahi Jewish claims to being Black Panthers, to Asian/African/Caribbean coalitions in the United Kingdom, to articulations by German and French youth today, this symposium will address the ways in which “Blackness” has been mobilized to make claims on state and other resources. It will engage the anti-normative forms … Read more
Alexandra Minna Stern, Associate Dean for the Humanities – Academic Affairs – Office of the Dean, Professor of American Culture, Professor in History, Women’s Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor; Director of the Digital Studies Institute Gayle Rubin, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women’s Studies … Read more
From Negritude, to the Anti-Apartheid movement, to Mizrahi Jewish claims to being Black Panthers, to Asian/African/Caribbean coalitions in the United Kingdom, to articulations by German and French youth today, this symposium will address the ways in which “Blackness” has been mobilized to make claims on state and other resources. It will engage the anti-normative forms … Read more
Launch of the 21st issue of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2 Ato and of its curated edition in English. Panel discussion with Q&A featuring the magazine editors Luciane Ramos Silva, Nabor Jr. and U-M faculty. Followed by the opening of a digital and print exhibit of selected magazine’s covers by Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Diasporic artists. The exhibit will be … Read more
Luciane Ramos Silva and Nabor Jr, editors of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2Ato, will discuss historical and current relations between Brazilian and American black presses. By discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, Luciane and Nabor will propose the black arts as a fundamental channel of critical engagement in contexts of social and political cleavage. … Read more
This event will feature five panelists who will discuss Chinese feminist movements. Register here: http://myumi.ch/QA83j More information: https://chinesefeminism.org/