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WGS Gender/Sexuality Matters, “Sex and the Church” Thursday, January 25, 4-5:30, Buttrick 123
Jan. 20, 2018—Panel with religious leaders and laity who ground issues of gender and sexuality in their work. Guests will include Reverend April Baker, Pastor at Glendale Baptist Church, Dawn Bennett of the Vanderbilt Divinity School (candidate for ordination in the ELCA Lutheran Church, and community activist for LGBTQ Youth and Families), and Lyndsey Godwin, Assistant Director...
Spring 2019 in WGS
Jan. 20, 2018—Welcome back for the Spring 2019 semester! The Women’s and Gender Studies Major and Minor programs have new requirements for this academic year. Submissions for our annual Wiltshire Essay Competition are now being accepted. Find out more! Our office is Buttrick Hall, Room 124. Come by and ask us why more and more students at...
Karen Hammer (Assistant Director and Senior Lecturer, WGS), “Relinquishing the Sacred Quest for Thin: The Historical Reverberations of Roxane Gay’s Hunger,” Monday, October 30, 2017, 12pm, Kisaam Multipurpose Room
Sep. 19, 2017—Using Gay’s recent memoir Hunger as a starting point, you will be invited to explore with Hammer the deeply troubled relationship that Western cultures have had to fatness, which has resulted in a fat phobia so blatant and yet so insidious that it often goes unnoticed. The repulsion toward fat women in particular, across the media landscape,...