USF Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Social Practice Apprenticeship - Opportunity for interdisciplinary arts-interested undergraduate students, grad students or recent grads!

Engage with WGSS student work in the Botanical Entanglements zine - just released! Visit https://publuu.com/flip-book/361412/2468341.

From Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko:
"One of the things I value most in teaching is creating spaces where feminist research becomes collaborative, experimental, and materially grounded. I’m excited to share this zine created by students in my Feminist Research Methods course, developed through a collaboration with the USF Herbarium. This beautiful collective project invites us to think with plants - not simply as botanical specimens, but as beings embedded in social, political, cultural, and ecological histories. Through feminist inquiry, archival exploration, and creative experimentation, students traced the many lives of plants and transformed their research into this thoughtful and inspiring artifact. I’m deeply grateful to my students and collaborators for making this project possible, and proud to share a glimpse of what interdisciplinary feminist pedagogy can make possible in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies."

Dr. Ana Maria Pérez joined WGSS in the Fall of 2025 as a visiting assistant professor of instruction. Learn about her approach to teaching in the WGSS newsletter: available at tinyurl.com/wgssnews2026 or click the link in our bio.

Here are some of the courses you can take with Dr. Pérez:

Summer B
* WST 2600 Human Sexual Behavior
* WST 3015 Intro to Women’s Studies

Fall
* WST 3015 Intro to Women’s Studies
* WST 3601 Intro to LGBTQ+ Cultures
* WST 4336 Feminist Media Studies and Pop Culture

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Congratulations to all of the WGSS students who are graduating USF this week! We couldn't be more proud of you all!

"WGSS... was what I always wanted my education to consist of: questioning both the purpose and the functionality of systems of power in our society."

Read more of WGSS student reflections in the WGSS newsletter, available at tinyurl.com/wgssnews2026.

Read a recent article by Dr. Milton Wendland on the Norton Learning Blog at tinyurl.com/mwendland.

The second issue of the Archive Revisited Gazette, edited by Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko, is available to read online at: thearchiverevisited.com.

This issue of The Archive Revisited turns to an often-overlooked text within Audre Lorde’s body of work — her 1976 essay “Notes from a Trip to Russia.” Though it opens Sister Outsider (1984), the essay rarely appears in feminist syllabi or discussions of Lorde’s global legacy. Yet, as contributors to this issue remind us, “Notes” is a vital record of transnational encounter: a text where Black feminist thought meets the layered histories of Soviet modernity, Central Asian colonialism, and the emotional and political complexities of cross-cultural solidarity.

And in case you missed it, you can still submit your work for consideration in the next issue of the Gazette. Submissions are accepted until May 15. Find more details at: thearchiverevisited.com under News and Events.

"...understanding today’s overlapping crises of war, displacement, labor, empire, and inequality requires reading across times, places, and communities."

Read more of Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko's reflections on our Beyond Borders event series in the Spring 2026 WGSS Newsletter, available at tinyurl.com/wgssnews.