Reproductive Rights Alliance weekly meeting
Interested in reproductive justice organizing? Join the Reproductive Rights Alliance! Meetings on Mondays in Chellis House at 7:30pm.
Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room
News and Events
The Gensler Symposium 2026 will be held on March 31st and April 1st. Please follow the link below to our webpage with all the relevant information. Bread and Puppet Theater will be here for a performance and a workshop!
https://sites.middlebury.edu/gensler2026/
Check out this new article in Ms. Magazine defending the value of the field of Women’s and Gender Studies:
And take a look at the latest interview of Professor Laurie Essig on fascism and feminism in Ms. Magazine:
https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/22/feminism-fascism-laurie-essig-democracy-russia-usa-putin-trump/
The 2024 Gensler Symposium entitled Feminism, Fascism and the Future is featured in this recent article:
Check out this article about other recent GSFS events on campus:
Professor Carly Thomsen’s Feminist Mini-Golf Course celebrated its grand opening on May 12, 2023:
https://vtdigger.org/2023/05/21/mini-golf-massive-topics-feminist-course-opens-as-teaching-tool-in-middlebury/
https://www.addisonindependent.com/2023/05/18/feminist-mini-golf-gets-players-talking/
Students from Professor Laurie Essig’s course White People lead the cause to bring non-white food to campus:
https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/05/student-led-proposal-aims-to-bring-culturally-diverse-food-trucks-to-middlebury/?fbclid=PAAaYzhmLnkA60-6uP2HAsAvg8M9Gvl3EhqHtdBEv_PLpqRrjJRmJPDQzF4Lo
As part of the “Visualizing Reproductive Justice: A Call to End Fake Clinics” exhibit that showcased the art of the first GSFS-Chellis House Public Feminism Fellows on September 27, 2022, Dr. Virginia Thomas gave a talk entitled “The World Building Power of Queer Aesthetics.” You can watch Dr. Thomas’ talk here: https://vimeo.com/760040169
Newsletters
Upcoming Events of Interest
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Queers & Allies Biweekly Meeting
Join us in the Prism Center for to connect with queer and allied community on campus!
The Prism Center
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Diana Whitney and Girl Trouble: Addressing Rape Culture Through Poetry
Join the Feminist Resource Center in welcoming Diana Whitney to read from her book of poetry, Girl Trouble. Whitney is a feminist activist, writer, and community organizer based in Vermont, exploring rape culture and the oppression of women and girls in her work. Lunch will be served.
Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room
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Reproductive Rights Alliance weekly meeting
Interested in reproductive justice organizing? Join the Reproductive Rights Alliance! Meetings on Mondays in Chellis House at 7:30pm.
Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room
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The “Ottoman-American” Diaspora: Women in Early Musical Recordings, ca. 1917–47
Ian Nagoski is an independent music researcher and reissue record producer in Baltimore, Maryland, who has specialized for over 20 years in early-twentieth-century recordings made by immigrants to the United States, with a particular focus on musicians from the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman locales. The latter have included Greek, Armenian, Arab, Jewish, and Turkish musicians.
Axinn Center 232
Open to the Public
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Reproductive Rights Alliance weekly meeting
Interested in reproductive justice organizing? Join the Reproductive Rights Alliance! Meetings on Mondays in Chellis House at 7:30pm.
Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room
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9 to 5 Screening and Discussion
Join the Feminist Resource Center and the GSFS Socialist Feminism class for a screening of 9 to 5 featuring Dolly Parton. Snacks provided and discussion to follow.
Tuesday, November 3 at 7pm in Chellis House
Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room
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Queers & Allies Biweekly Meeting
Join us in the Prism Center for to connect with queer and allied community on campus!
The Prism Center
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Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt” with Leslie Chang.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Open to the Public
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Reproductive Rights Alliance weekly meeting
Interested in reproductive justice organizing? Join the Reproductive Rights Alliance! Meetings on Mondays in Chellis House at 7:30pm.
Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room