2024 GSFS Graduates
GSFS students celebrating their graduation 2024

Check out this new article in Ms. Magazine defending the value of the field of Women’s and Gender Studies:

Our Graduates’ Successes: What the Data Tells Us About the Value of Cultural and Gender Studies Degrees

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:

https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2024/04/feminism-facism-and-the-future-annual-gensler-family-symposium-addresses-anti-gender-movement

Check out this article about other recent GSFS events on campus:

https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2023/12/feminist-trivia-project-symposium-encourage-students-to-act-on-intersectional-issues

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
 

Upcoming Events of Interest

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Chellis House Open House

    Join us for an afternoon exploring Chellis House, the home of the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department and the Feminist Resource Center. Meet faculty, staff, and students involved in Chellis and learn about upcoming events, programming, and opportunities. Snacks and refreshments will be available, as well as some cool merch. If you’re interested in building feminist community on campus, this is a great way to get involved!

    Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room

    Closed to the Public

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Monsters vs. Patriarchy

    Professor Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini discuss their new book, Monsters vs. Patriarchy: Toxic Imagination in Global Horror Cinema. The authors contend that monstrous female cinematic subjects, including ghosts, witches, cannibals, and posthuman beings, are becoming empowered, using the tools of their monstrification to smash the colonial, white supremacist, and misogynist structures that created them.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

    Come join us for friendship, snacks, and prideful community every Tuesday at 7pm in the Prism Center!

    The Prism Center