WGST News

" Kashmiri Futures ," a special issue of English Language Notes edited by Dr. Deepti Misri , Dr. Mohamad Junaid, and Dr. Ather Zia is available now. This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political...

The Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium is an annual event, hosted by the department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and the Arts and Sciences Honors Program, to celebrate students whose honors theses, in any discipline, thematically address the fields of WGST and LGBTQ studies. Each spring 3-7 students from across...

In a chapter written for the recently published Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics , Celeste Montoya , a University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of women and gender studies , demonstrates how social movements and community activism have played a vital role in shaping Latina legislative leadership in...

CU Boulder Professor’s, Emmanuel David and Yumi Janairo Roth are highlighted in local newspapers, The Ampersand Podcast, and more for their collaboration in “We Are Coming” a traveling art installation showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s upcoming exhibition “Cowboy” . The exhibit examines how the myth of the cowboy...

Dr. Samira Mehta has been honored by a committee of distinguished faculty to receive the 2023 Provost's Faculty Achievement Award. The faculty committee highlighted the impact of Mehta's body of work in the areas of Jewish American culture and race and sexuality since World War II, with a focus on...

"Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but...

Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture University of Illinois Press, 2023 Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and Cuba to examine how music,...

From Julie Carr's website: "Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw...

Emmanuel David received the 2023 Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Sexualities for his article, " Transpinay: Genealogy of a Term ." Dr. David is pictured here with Theo Greene, Chair of the Section on Sexualities, while accepting the award in person at the 2023 ASA...

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