Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Lecture by Debjani Roy, Interim Executive Director of Hollaback New York, a non-profit and movement to end harassment in public spaces.

Lecture by Veronica Coates ’14

Lecture by Professor Joshua Rubongoya, Roanoke College, “The Politics of Homophobia in Africa: Lessons from Uganda”

Lecture by Helena Wong

How should Asians and Asian Americans be relating to social movements of our time like Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, and Not1More? How are grassroots organizers in Asian communities around the country pushing back against gentrification, discriminatory policing, environmental racism, and what happens when communities are hit with (un)natural disasters? How do we understand what is happening in China and bring it back to what it means to organize with a racial and gender justice lens here in the US?

It Happens Here’s annual event where members of the Middlebury community share their experiences with sexual and relationship violence.

Please join us at Chellis House for the inauguration of paintings by Dr. Kamakshi P. Murti, Professor Emerita of German. Dr. Murti created these paintings to represent a patriarchal belief system. The first one depicts Hinduism, the second shows aspects of the Yoruba tradition, and the third represents Islam.

Life of the Mind talk by Tanya Byker (Department of Economics) for Equal Pay Day. Lunch will be provided.

The GSFS Program invites faculty members to welcome their new feminist colleagues.

Professor Carly Thomsen, Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies will give a talk as part of the 2016-17 Life of the Mind Series.