Gender and Women's Studies at UIC

✨ Your next favorite courses are here! ✨
📌 GWS 410: Race, Gender, and Representation: Black Bodies in Media and Mass Culture. (NEW!)
📌 GWS 455: Advanced Seminar in Feminism and Justice
Open to undergrads & grads—secure your spot now before it’s too late! 🖤

Make your electives meaningful this Spring! 💡
✨ GWS 262: Constructions of Gender, Race, Health, and Human Rights
✨ GWS 294: Contemporary Latina Narratives
Expand your perspective AND earn credits. Don’t wait—register now! 🌟

Curious how Gender & Women's Studies can shape your understanding of the world? 🌍✨
This Spring, dive into:
📚 GWS 101: Gender in Everyday Life
📚 GWS 102: Global Perspectives on Women & Gender
Spaces are still available—register now to learn about identity, justice, and social change! 💡

✨ Calling all GWS and Social Justice students!✨
Apply for the Esther O. Kegan Travel Award to receive up to $250 to support travel for conferences or research projects. Whether you're presenting your work or diving deeper into your studies, we're here to help you make it happen! Applications are due by Friday, January 10, 2025.
📅 Travel Dates: 8/1/24–12/31/24
🔗 To Apply: go.uic.edu/GWSKeganTravelFund
✉️ Questions? Contact [email protected]
For more info. visit: https://gws.uic.edu/esther-o-kegan-student-travel-award/
Empower your research, ignite your curiosity! 🛫✍️

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Therese Quinn, Professor and Director of Museum and Exhibition Studies and GWS affiliated faculty member, who recently was featured on WBEZ’s Reset program for the episode "A Spotlight on the Older Women of the American Workforce."

Dr. Quinn joined host Sasha-Ann Simons and Corinne Kodama, senior research analyst at Women Employed, to discuss the increase in women over age 55 who are staying in the paid workforce. Dr. Quinn discussed the reasons women are staying in the workforce, as well as the challenges, enjoyment, and satisfaction women experience in their paid labor and unpaid caregiving. The program details policies and social supports that can better support women in the workforce.

🎧 Listen to the full program at https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2024/12/17/a-spotlight-on-the-older-women-of-the-workforce.

❄️ We wish you a restful and joyful winter break. ❄️
Take care, recharge, and enjoy this season of renewal.
See you in the new year!

❤️ All of Us at Gender & Women's Studies

🎉 Congratulations to All Our Fall 2024 Gender & Women’s Studies Graduates!

🎓 GWS Majors:
Manal Ali, Mis Ali, Kayla Barnet, Fernanda Antonio Diaz, Yasury Mendoza

🎓 GWS Minors:
Parisa Gharavi, Daniella Gutierrez, Itxhel Montano, Rose Tharakan

🎓 Social Justice Minor:
Lauren Hanna

We are so proud of all you have achieved! It is an honor to work with such passionate, intelligent, and dedicated students who already are making a positive impact in our communities. We look forward to all you will continue to accomplish.

❤️ Welcome to the GWS Alumni Community!

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that Rose Tharakan, an undergraduate student pursuing her GWS minor, won the Capstone Innovation Award at UIC Honors College's Fall 2024 Honors Research Symposium! 🎉

Rose earned this recognition for her critical research on the impact of Illinois Department of Corrections' commissary items and costs on incarcerated people and their loved ones. Rose worked closely with GWS Director Nadine Naber and Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition & Solidarity (MAMAS) to conduct this research.

As Professor Naber explained, “Rose’s thesis looked at the nutritional value within commissary items, its impact on those incarcerated, and the financial strain it puts on families. Interviewing the mothers of MAMAS (Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity) for her thesis, Rose used their personal stories and experiences in her research - an amazing example of tying together activism, lived experience, and academic research.”

Rose's research will support MAMAS' ongoing advocacy efforts to end the violence of prisons.

Congratulations, Rose, and thank you for your important work! 🎉👏

Thank you for making Giving Tuesday a Huge Success!

Thanks to your incredible support, Giving Tuesday became more than just a day—it turned into a movement of care and solidarity. Your generosity ensures that we will reopen our Basic Needs Fund in Spring 2025 to continue supporting our students. Because of your generosity we raised $3585! We couldn’t have done this without you.
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We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire, co-edited by our very own Professor Ronak Kapadia, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Illinois Chicago !

This groundbreaking book, published by BRIDGE Books, features over 250 stunning full-color images and contributions from brilliant minds like Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Kyle T. Mays, and more. It explores creative resistance through art, history, and political critique—bridging the gap between scholarly insight and visual storytelling.

📖 Book Release & Exhibition Closing Event
📅 Date: Sunday, December 8, 2024
⏰ Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
📍 Grand Army of the Republic Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago, IL 60602

Celebrate with us at the Transformative Threads exhibition closing and hear from the book’s editors, artists, and contributors! Masks required and available on-site.

🎯 Don’t wait—pre-order your copy now at BRIDGE Books and immerse yourself in this powerful collection! > https://www.bridge-chicago.org/bridge-books-1/surviving-the-long-wars

📲 Event Links:
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surviving-the-long-wars-book-release-exhibition-closing-tickets-1082682314949?aff=oddtdtcreator
Details: https://www.facebook.com/share/17zWENDiQx/

Related Links:
Transformative Threads: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/transformative-threads
STLW:
https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/book
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We’re in the final 3 hours of Giving Tuesday! With $2,710 raised so far, we’re so close to our $4,000 goal. Help us cross the finish line and reopen the GWS Basic Needs Fund for our students in Spring 2025.

📅 Donate by 5 PM CST today!
👉 Scan the QR code
💻 Or visit: https://go.uic.edu/GWSGT24

Let’s make collective care count! 💕

💕 Collective Care is a Feminist Practice 💕

This Giving Tuesday, help us raise $4,000 so we can reopen the GWS Basic Needs Fund for our students! Since Fall 2022, we've distributed nearly $8,000 to cover essentials like food, housing, tuition, and healthcare.

📅 Donate by Dec. 4 at 5 PM CST
👉 Scan the QR code!
💻 Visit https://go.uic.edu/GWSGT24

Let’s show how collective care changes lives!
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🤝 Collective Care is a Feminist Practice 🤝

This Giving Tuesday, help us raise $4,000 so we can reopen the GWS Basic Needs Fund for our students! Since Fall 2022, we've distributed nearly $8,000 to cover essentials like food, housing, tuition, and healthcare.

📅 Donate by Dec. 4 at 5 PM CST
👉 Scan the QR code!
💻 Visit https://go.uic.edu/GWSGT24

Let’s show how collective care changes lives!
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Teach-In: What Now? Preparing for the Trump Presidency and Project 2025

🗓️ Tuesday, December 3, 2024
⏰ 12-1:30 p.m. CST
📍University Hall 1501

The election is over, and the Trump presidency is coming back with a clear agenda. What do we do now? How do we prepare?

This teach-in workshop will provide brief overviews of what to expect in our lane of higher education. It will focus on the Heritage Foundation’s coming attacks against higher education, immigration, Palestine solidarity movements, and ethnic studies and gender studies. There are meaningful ways for us to intervene, protect people and resist what’s coming – especially here at UIC. Collectively, we will harness our knowledge and energy to prepare and start building our movements.

Organized by: Staff and Faculty of the Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center, Department of Latin American & Latino Studies, Department of Criminology, Law & Justice, The Global Asian Studies Program, and the Rigo Padilla-Pérez Undocumented Student Resource Center.

✨ Collective Care is a Feminist Practice ✨

This Giving Tuesday, help us raise $4,000 so we can reopen the GWS Basic Needs Fund for our students! Since Fall 2022, we've distributed nearly $8,000 to cover essentials like food, housing, tuition, and healthcare.

📅 Donate by Dec. 4 at 5 PM CST
👉 Scan the QR code!
💻 Visit https://go.uic.edu/GWSGT24

Let’s show how collective care changes lives!
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🗳️ Processing the 2024 Election 🗳️

Feeling overwhelmed by the recent election? Join UIC faculty, students, and community members from interdisciplinary programs for an open conversation about its impact and what it all means.

📅 Date: Nov 13
⏰ Time: 4 PM
📍 Location: Women’s Leadership Resource Center, Student Services Building, 1200 W. Harrison Street, Ste. 1700

Co-sponsored by UIC Black Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Latin American and Latino Studies. Let’s make sense of it together! ✨

🌿 Spring 2025 Graduate Courses in Gender and Women’s Studies 🌿

Graduate students, dive into a deep study of gender, race, and feminism with these advanced courses. Perfect for scholars ready to engage critically and create meaningful impact in gender studies!

🎓 GWS 410: Race, Gender, and Representation: Black Bodies in Media and Mass Culture
🎓 GWS 455: Advanced Seminar in Feminism and Justice
🎓 GWS 502: Feminist Knowledge Production

Join us for a transformative semester filled with critical discussions, creative projects, and collaborative learning!