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

  • It Happens Here Meeting

    Join us every Thursday at 5:30pm in Chellis House for a community-building meeting of students committed to sexual-violence prevention and supporting survivors. We will also use this time to plan the annual It Happens Here event, taking place on Friday, April 24th.

    It Happens Here (IHH) is an annual anti-sexual violence tradition founded in 2012. The event aims to honor survivors by promoting awareness, solidarity, and healing through the sharing of stories. 

    Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room

  • It Happens Here Meeting

    Join us every Thursday at 5:30pm in Chellis House for a community-building meeting of students committed to sexual-violence prevention and supporting survivors. We will also use this time to plan the annual It Happens Here event, taking place on Friday, April 24th.

    It Happens Here (IHH) is an annual anti-sexual violence tradition founded in 2012. The event aims to honor survivors by promoting awareness, solidarity, and healing through the sharing of stories. 

    Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room

  • It Happens Here Meeting

    Join us every Thursday at 5:30pm in Chellis House for a community-building meeting of students committed to sexual-violence prevention and supporting survivors. We will also use this time to plan the annual It Happens Here event, taking place on Friday, April 24th.

    It Happens Here (IHH) is an annual anti-sexual violence tradition founded in 2012. The event aims to honor survivors by promoting awareness, solidarity, and healing through the sharing of stories. 

    Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room

  • It Happens Here Meeting

    Join us every Thursday at 5:30pm in Chellis House for a community-building meeting of students committed to sexual-violence prevention and supporting survivors. We will also use this time to plan the annual It Happens Here event, taking place on Friday, April 24th.

    It Happens Here (IHH) is an annual anti-sexual violence tradition founded in 2012. The event aims to honor survivors by promoting awareness, solidarity, and healing through the sharing of stories. 

    Chellis Living Room/Seminar Room