During the Spring 2023 semester, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies organized four invited lectures as part of the WGSS speaker series.
WGSS hosts QueerTalks speaker series
Unit: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGSS welcomes new affiliated faculty
Please join me in welcoming Dr. John Lawless and Dr. Katharine Landers to our WGSS affiliated faculty.
Call for artifacts: We want to hear your WGSS stories
In collaboration with the Jo Ann Rayfield Archives at ISU, the WGSS Program is putting out a call to alumni and all members of the ISU community for any artifacts, materials, photos, or stories related to the WGSS Program at ISU.
Students receive recognition at 26th annual WGSS Student Research Symposium
Four WGSS students received awards for their involvement in the program at the 26th annual Student Research Symposium.
Dr. Kate Manne speaks on mansplaining and gaslighting at Symposium
The WGSS Program held its first face-to-face student research symposium since 2019 in April.
Rekindling the FLAME
Illinois State’s Feminist Led Activist Movement to Empower (FLAME) was reignited during the Fall of 2022.
Dr. Kass Fleisher (1959-2023)
On Tuesday, April 4, family, friends, and community gathered in the Bone Student Center to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Kass Fleisher.
WGSS alum continues policy research on trans and nonbinary populations
Dr. Jody Herman continues to work at the Williams Institute at UCLA where she is rolling out a new project looking at the needs and barriers to services for trans and nonbinary residents of Los Angeles County.
WGSS welcomes new assistant director, advisor
Dr. Jacklyn Weier joined the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program as assistant director and advisor in December 2022.
WGSS welcomes new undergraduate assistant
This August, Hannah Pelphrey will join the WGSS Program as our new undergraduate assistant
