Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

#IntersectionalTV: Mediating Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Keynote lecture by Susan Douglas, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan, for the Gensler Family Symposium on Feminism in a Global Context. This year’s symposium is titled #IntersectionalTV: Mediating Race, Gender, and Sexuality. For more information go to http://sites.middlebury.edu/gensler2016/.

Watch and discuss the pilots of Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away With Murder during the Gensler Symposium: #IntersectionalTV: Mediating Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Free popcorn! For more information go to http://sites.middlebury.edu/gensler2016/

Scholars Address Intersectional TV in two panels at the Gensler Family Symposium on Feminism in a Global Context. Panel 1: Mis(Playing) Blackness: Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl Ariane Cruz, Pennsylvania State University The Value and Exchange of Intersectional Distribution Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern University Panel 2: When a Modifier-Less Identity is the Goal You’re Gonna Have Problems: Shonda Rhimes and the Limits of Universal Discourse Kristen Warner, University of Alabama All Ethnicities?

Topic of discussion: Masculinities. Middlebury College Faculty/Staff and Students are invited.

Life of the Mind talk in the Chellis House Speaker Series by Sony Bolton, Mellon C3 Postdoctoral Fellow in Spanish.

FMMC/GSFS student August Laska (’17) will talk about his internship at Vimeo, a company that facilitates the sharing of videos among Internet users.

Friendly get-together and discussion with members of the local AAUW (American Association of University Women), an organization that has advocated for women’s rights for over 100 years and provides more funding to female-identifying graduate students than the U.S. government. Together, we will speak about how women across generations can work together to effect political change. Find out about a great organization and how you can get your free membership. Tasty treats will be available!

In this talk, leading Chinese feminist activist Lu Pin will delineate the agenda that the Chinese government has implicitly and explicitly set out for Chinese women: marriage and reproduction. Recently, Chinese activists have resisted this agenda by reclaiming derogatory misogynist terms and posing in artistic nude photos to advocate for the legislation of the country’s first anti-domestic violence law. Lu Pin argues that resisting the government’s agenda will make women unafraid to fight for their causes . Lu Pin has been working for the women’s rights movement in China for over 20 years.

Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont and former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, speaks about current affairs.