UMass Boston Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professor Candace Famigliette will be offering WGS 411, Transnational Feminisms during the second summer session. (Wiser Class # 2621)

We are still enrolling for the Summer Semester 2 course, "Native American Women in North America" with Professor Sayet. (Wiser Class # 2619) Please feel free to contact us for more information. We look forward to seeing you in class!

Excited to share this co-authored chapter by Professor Elora Chowdhury (with Nazli Kibria, Fariba Salma Alam, and Sharbari Zohra Ahmed) featuring history and experiences of Bangladeshi Americans in the U.S. As part of a new UCLA digital textbook called Foundations and Futures -- “The most comprehensive collection of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and perspectives available for free and online for high school, college, and lifelong learners.”

The UCLA Futures and Foundations project is here:
https://www.foundationsandfutures.org/

Chapter on Bangladeshi Americans is here:
https://www.foundationsandfutures.org/.../bangladeshi.../

Please share with all the educators and students you know!

Last week, the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) hosted its annual conference at the University of Vermont.

The theme, "Just Transformations in Food Systems and Cultures," invited critical and bold conversations about building food systems grounded in sustainability, equity, sovereignty, and ecological care.

Thank you to the University of Vermont and the conference organizers for hosting this gathering, we had a great time.

Faculty celebrate the Class of 2026 at the Undergraduate Commencement. ✨🎓
Photo credits (first photo): Javier Rivas

Some photos from our graduation celebration. Thank you to everyone who joined! 🎓

Congratulations to our Class of 2026 graduates!
We are so proud of all that you have accomplished. We are also grateful to the faculty, whose guidance and support helped make this milestone possible. 🎓🎉

Its not too late to enroll. Discover a new understanding of people through the Intersectional Lense of Women's, Gender, and Sexualtity Studies!

Join the Center for Humanities, Culture, & Society for "Behind Our Backs; feminized poetry and capitalist abstaction", Wednesday, April 15 @ 4:00pm in the UMass Campus Center.

Join the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights for their final presentation of the semester, Janene Yazzie, Tuesday, April 14 @ 11am. This is an increadibly hot-button issue at the moment. Join Janene and see the work she is doing with the Woven Project, https://www.thewovenproject.org/newsblog, and Sixth World Solutions, https://sixth-world.com/about-us/