Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty present at the annual National Women鈥檚 Studies Association (NWSA) Conference.
This year five GWSS faculty attended the annual National Women鈥檚 Studies Association (NWSA) conference. GWSS co-coordinator Dr. Julie Shayne organized a session titled 鈥淲ho Asks? Who Writes? Who Trains? Parsing the Complexities of Showcasing Historically Silenced Narratives.鈥� Dr. Ching-In Chen and Dr. Neil Simpkins presented a paper titled 鈥淥rganizing a Writing and Dreaming Space for Trans Writers,鈥� and Dr. Shayne鈥檚 paper was titled 鈥淵our Stories Exist, We Just Need to Find Them: Teaching Students to Build Digital Feminist Archive Exhibits.鈥�
Shayne鈥檚 was based on the created by the students in her 鈥淗istories and Movements of Gender and Sexuality鈥� class, offered again in winter. The panel also included colleagues from the University of Massachusetts Boston and Wellesley College and was moderated by GWSS co-coordinator Dr. Alka Kurian. Dr. Alice Pedersen and Dr. Alka Kurian also presented papers on two separate panels. Dr. Pedersen鈥檚 presentation was called 鈥淒eep Listening: on centering silence and observation in the classroom,鈥� and Dr. Kurian鈥檚 鈥淐itizenship, Belonging, Sexuality and Desire: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism.鈥� In addition to these regular sessions Drs. Kurian and Shayne participated in the NWSA in other ways. Dr. Alka Kurian participated in the Ms. Magazine writers workshop, a program that trains academics to write for Ms. Magazine. (Drs. Shayne and Kari Lerum participated in this workshop in years past.) Finally, Dr. Shayne鈥檚 latest book was featured in a Feminist Author Showcase session.
