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
Micah Griggs, Vice President of U-M Central Student Government Simone Lightfoot, Trustee, Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education Rashida Tlaib, former Michigan State Representative Rebekah Warren, Michigan State Senator, 18th District Katherine E. White, U-M Board of Regents Moderator: Anna Kirkland, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science; Associate Director, … Read more
Dee Fenner, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Bates Professor of Diseases of Women and Children, and Professor of Urology, at the University of Michigan Anna Kirkland, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG); courtesy appointments in Sociology, Political Science, and … Read more