Le Moyne College, Gender and Women's Studies Program

LGBTQIA+ Reception Tuesday, October 18
Please join the Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Department of Gender & Women's Studies, and PRISM for a LGBTQIA+ reception for students, faculty, and staff to celebrate Coming Out Month! We will be gathering Tuesday, October 18, 4pm-6pm in Corcoran Lounge/Simons Pub. Connect with LGBTQIA+ faculty, students, staff and allies! There will be food and opportunities to meet new people from across campus.

Tonight, Oct. 5, 2022, 5-6 pm, "After the Fall of Roe, How Should Concerned Catholics Respond?" Event Details: https://lemoyne.campusgroups.com/rsvp?id=1815043:

From Prof. Ternikar, GWS Director:

With the generous support of my colleagues, friends and comrades, I wrote this letter as a call for transnational solidarity with the movement in Iran.
https://forms.gle/GZf3yjPKbP9MmKHx5
Each and every signature matters. Please be our voice. Please sign and share.
Thank you so much,

Fatemeh Moghaddam
(she/her/hers)
PhD Candidate,Education
Women's and Gender Studies
Syracuse University
[email protected]

A Call for Transnational Feminist Solidarity With Iranian Protests On 16 September, Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, a 22-year-old girl was killed while in the custody of the Guidance (morality) Police. The Iranian state’s troops have beaten, arrested and killed protesters and withheld Internet access across the country. This letter is an invitation to join millions of prote...

Save the date for the GWS and PRISM Awards and Lavender Graduation on May 5, starting at 5 pm.

GWS Director Prof. Farha Ternikar will be at SUNY-Oswego at 5 pm on March 31, 2022 to discuss her new work on immigrant women and fashion blogs: Haute Hijab: Brown Girls, Muslim Women, and Instagram."

Join a panel of Le Moyne Arts and Sciences faculty for a Black History Month discussion of current events: "Democracy is Fragile: Voting Rights, Insurrection, the Supreme Court, and CRT."

Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 5:00-6:00 in the Reilly Room, 4th Floor of Reilly Hall, on the Le Moyne College campus.

For those interested, Angela Davis will be speaking at SUNY-Oswego on Feb. 9th.

Angela Davis to speak at SUNY Oswego’s MLK celebration The activist, author and educator will be the keynote speaker.

https://womenshistory.si.edu/news/2022/01/applications-now-open-paid-virtual-2022-because-her-story-cohort-internship?s=09

Applications Now Open for Paid, Virtual 2022 Because of Her Story Cohort Internship American Women's History Initiative Virtual 2022 Because of Her Story Cohort Internship Program June 13 – August 5, 2022 Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET February 28, 2022*

Join the launch for Sociology Professor and GWS Director Farha Ternikar's book, "Beyond Halal and Hijab: Intersectionality and the South Asian Middle Class," on Dec. 6, 2021, on Zoom, from 6:00-7:30 pm.
Sponsored by the Le Moyne College Sociology Department and the Boston University Gastronomy Program
Link supplied upon registration.
Register via the link below or e-mail [email protected]

Beyond Halal and Hijab Webinar: Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class Lifestyle Consumption beyond Halal and Hijab

Please stop by and bring a friend for Tuesday's GWS event from 4:30 to 5:20pm
in SC 114.

We'll be talking about post-3rd wave feminism/intersectionality from Brittany to Lil Nas to Beyonce and the expanding understandings of intersectionality to encompass q***r theory or disability studies.

Come to hear about the GWS minor,
but stay for discussion, our popcorn bar and to meet our seniors and juniors!

Prof. Fought of the History Department and GWS will discuss her favorite subject, Frederick Douglass and his wives, on Zoom on Monday, May 10, 2021, at 7 pm. Register here, for free:

"Private Life and the Principles of Justice: The Wives of Frederick Douglass" Black abolitionist and statesman Frederick Douglass married twice. His first wife was Anna Murray, a free African-American woman who helped him escape slavery and raised his family. Later, in his widowhood, Hel...