Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

All women and LGBTQ people that are Middlebury students, staff, and faculty are welcome to join us on Nov 9th and 10th for Feminist self-defense classes followed by a discussion on rape as a form of biopower. Class will be taught by Ruthie Brown (class of 2025.5), who is a 2nd degree black belt in Cuong Nhu and has taught self-defense in the US, Brazil, Colombia, and Nepal. Students will learn various mental and physical techniques that emerged in Cuong Nhu, Judo, Brazilian Jui Jitsu, and Kickboxing.

Come and join feminists activists in making art and media to raise awareness about crisis pregnancy centers, false clinics that try to dissuade women from getting abortions.

Join us to learn about menstrual justice on campus as well as receiving free sustainable menstrual products!

Join us in celebrating our ancestors and departed loved ones on Día de los Muertos.  Meet outside the Anderson Freeman Center (Carr Hall.)  Along the procession there will be music, performances, dance, and much more. Visit: go/ddlm23 for more information. Bring along a memento of your loved one, a photo, favorite food, an object to honor your dead on the Procession… open to all!

Get your pink gear on and join the workers of the Feminist Resource Center at Chellis House for a screening of “Barbie.” We’ll have snacks and will discuss the movie after the screening.

Please join us for Silent Bike Ride hosted by Emily Jones ’23.5 to celebrate the life of Evelyn Mae Sorensen, Class of 2025. All who would like to join in a silent, monitored bike ride to honor Evelyn are invited to join at Parking Lot E (student lot) at 5 p.m. Helmets are mandatory and all traffic regulations for the six-mile, half-hour route must be observed. Check the campus Events Calendar for further details.

Erin Durban and Lucinda Ramberg, two feminist, queer, postcolonial scholars, will have a conversation about queer anthropology: What does it mean to queer anthropology? How can we do anthropology, as well as ethnographic methods more broadly, in a queer way and for queer purposes?

Erin Durban, a scholar of queer anthropology, will discuss their book The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti. Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country’s traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention.

Please join us for a celebration of students in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies Courses for their Feminist Translation Projects. Enjoy videos, podcasts, boardgames, zines and more.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Health and Medicine presents Professor Lucinda Ramberg, sociocultural and medical anthropologist at Cornell University