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

  • Weekly Feminist Stitch & Bitch

    Join Chellis House for our weekly Stitch & Bitch! Gather in feminist community to scheme, make art, meet new people, use your hands, and take a break from screens and school. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any projects you’re currently working on. Together we can build a better world, but first we must imagine it!

    Chellis House Library

  • A Pluralist Account of Epistemic Agency, Injustice, & Repair

    Prof. Amandine Catala, University of Quebec in Montreal 

    Recent accounts of epistemic agency and injustice have shown that both notions are greatly enriched and more accurately construed when they are taken to include not only propositional knowledge (knowing-that) but also experiential knowledge, including practical knowledge (knowing-how) and tacit, embodied, and affective knowledge (knowing what-it’s-like). What can such a pluralist account tell us about epistemic repair? 

    Twilight 201

    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

  • Weekly Feminist Stitch & Bitch

    Join Chellis House for our weekly Stitch & Bitch! Gather in feminist community to scheme, make art, meet new people, use your hands, and take a break from screens and school. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any projects you’re currently working on. Together we can build a better world, but first we must imagine it!

    Chellis House Library

  • 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

  • Weekly Feminist Stitch & Bitch

    Join Chellis House for our weekly Stitch & Bitch! Gather in feminist community to scheme, make art, meet new people, use your hands, and take a break from screens and school. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any projects you’re currently working on. Together we can build a better world, but first we must imagine it!

    Chellis House Library

  • Queers & Allies Weekly Meeting

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

    The Prism Center