Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty have big presence at the National Women鈥檚 Studies Association (#NWSA2017) conference
The held its annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland this year. The conference鈥檚 theme was 鈥淔orty Years After Combahee: Feminist Scholars and Activists Engage the Movement for Black Lives鈥� and was an inspiring weekend full of panels, round-table discussions, plenaries, meetings, receptions, networking, and socializing. Seven GWSS faculty presented and co-presented papers. GWSS faculty coordinator Julie Shayne organized a panel called 鈥�.鈥� On the panel she presented her paper 鈥淩eflections on 30 years in (Gender), Women (and Sexuality) Studies: From Salvadoran Solidarity Activist to GWSS Faculty Coordinator.鈥� Also on the panel, Alka Kurian presented 鈥淒alit women鈥檚 disruption in a GWSS classroom,鈥� Karen Rosenberg presented 鈥淭eaching about Intimate Partner Violence: Insights from Black and Transnational Feminisms,鈥� and Thea Quiray Tagle presented 鈥淔rom Black (W)holes, a Light.鈥� GWSS faculty presented and co-presented in other sessions as well. Karen Rosenberg and Lauren Lichty co-presented their paper 鈥淲hen the University Fails to Name Relationship Violence: Classrooms as Sites of Intra-institutional Analysis, Individual Agency, and Calls for Change,鈥� Alka Kurian, 鈥溾�楥ry out Loud!鈥� Multiracial Organizing and Documentary Cinema,鈥� micha c谩rdenas 鈥淩ituals, Recipes and Algorithms of Trans of Color Poetics,鈥� and remotely Lauren Berliner presented 鈥淢ediating the Margins: Queer Girls and the Performance of Identity in Online Videos.鈥� GWSS faculty had a wonderful weekend, including Kari Lerum who attended without presenting, and look forward to next year鈥檚 conference in Atlanta where the theme will be: . You can see a few pictures of GWSSers at the conference in their .