Second WGSS Brown Bag Seminar
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Thank you to the students, faculty, and staff from across the departments and schools at GW, as well as from USAID, that attended our second Brown Bag Seminar featuring Professor Nemata Blyden (History and Elliot School of International Affairs). We had an invigorating discussion about Professor Blyden's new book
African Americans and Africa: A New History
(Yale UP, 2019), which explores how African Americans understand Africa and ultimately, how they understand themselves. Professor Blyden's remarks gave us a glimpse of the historically changing on African American engagement with Africa. The discussion ended with an open-ended question on the possible futures of the term "African American" or "Black."
Pictured: Nemata Blyden
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Pictured (left to right): Ivy Ken, Cindy Deitch, Deborah Robinson, Kavita Daiya, Nemata Blyden, Afeefa Abdur-Rahman, Xiaofei Kang,
Xolela Mangcu
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Feminist Halloween Event: Reimagining the Witch
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Thanks to Professors Kelly Pemberton and Kavita Daiya for hosting, and thank you to all of the students that attended our "Re-Imagining the Witch" Halloween event. Dr. Pemberton led a riveting discussion about the history behind the label of witchcraft as it was, and is used in diverse societies in Europe, the Middle-East, and the USA. We learned so much about how the treatment of those who were called witches links with the treatment of other oppressed groups, including indigenous people, and Africans brought to the Americas as slaves, when they have questioned dominant power relations. Dr. Pemberton also discussed how witches come up in social media discourse and popular culture; it was great to learn about this history from a Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies perspective.
Pictured: Kelly Pemberton
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Pictured (left to right): Niacka Carty, Turni Chakrabarti, Michelle Nguyen, Tatiana Ruiz, and Allyn Parrish
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Pictured (left to right): Tatiana Ruiz, Michelle Nguyen, Allyn Parrish, Kelly Pemberton, Faith Alaniz, Elisa Heng, Evelyn Boateng-Ade
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This week's student shoutout is dedicated to second year M.A. student in the Public Policy track,
Breya Johnson
! Breya has been up to amazing things these past few months, such as, getting her paper on radical love accepted for publication, organizing workshops around the decriminalization of sex work,
DecrimNOW
for GW students, and interning with the policy division of the
Black Women's Health Imperative
. Beyond this, Breya recently presented at the University of Memphis' "20th Annual Graduate Association of African American History" conference. The title of her paper is “A Black woman’s Vision for Black Feminist Political Psychology” which is, to quote Breya, "the most difficult framework I have ever attempted to articulate." Breya will also be traveling to the "Women of Color Leadership Project" at the National Women's Studies Association! In February 2020, Breya will launch her reading and writing website complete with her own work and the work of her favorite authors. Breya shares the following inspiring experience: "One thing my mentor Dr. Jameta Barlow has taught me, is the power writing has to heal. She started a writing group this semester called
The Wish Lab
, and I attend this lab and we worked on our projects together. Some incredible things are coming with her and I. We will hopefully be giving a presentation at this years diversity submit!"
We're very proud of these great achievements! Congrats Breya! You can follow her blog's Instagram @blackreadingtoheal to learn more about what she is up to:
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Pictured: Dr. K.T Ewing and Breya Johnson
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The WGSS Alumni Speaker Series continues this Fall with Susan Markham (partner at Smash Strategies), Trey Johnston (Associate Director, Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute), and Gina Chirillo (Senior Program Officer for Gender, International Foundation for Electoral Systems). Join us for another engaging dialogue and networking opportunity!
The WGSS Alumni Speaker Series showcases and celebrate the many accomplishments and diverse paths our alumni have taken, through a dialogue on challenges and opportunities in working toward change on issues related to women, gender, and sexuality, here in the United States, and around the world. The event will be held on
Friday, November 22
, at 3:00 - 5:00 PM in the School of Media and Public Affairs Building Room 309. Learn more and RSVP
here
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Last year, our third Alumni Speaker Series event "Envisioning Change" hosted three illustrious alumni to talk about their incredible careers in gender and policy. One of them,
Kate Black
, has just published this terrific book:
Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World
. Co-authored with actress and activist June Diane Raphael, the book has been called an essential tool for any woman looking to run and was endorsed by Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Doubling as a workbook and full of humor and honesty,
Represent: The Woman's Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World
, is a non-partisan workbook, planner, journal, guide that covers it all
—
from the nuts and bolts of where to run, fundraising, and filing deadlines, to issues like balancing family and campaigning, managing social media, and how running for office can really work in your real life considering all the care work (both paid and unpaid) women are doing. With infographics, profiles of women politicians and advice from women in office - written exclusively for this book - including Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, former Colorado Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran, Columbus City Councilwoman Liz Brown, Republican local elected official Jordan Evans, and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
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Pictured (left to right): Shirley Graham, Kavita Daiya, Kate Black, Andrea Pagano-Reyes, Layla Moughari, GW Alumni Office Representative, and Cindy Deitch
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Upcoming GW Events on Gender
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Join us for an interactive workshop on thinking beyond black and white in the history of race and gender at the GW Diversity Summit 2019 on
Friday, November 7th
from 3:40 PM - 4:30 PM in the Marvin Center Room 308.
Hosted by Alexa Alice Joubin, this workshop will include interactive workshop and lecture to learn about the critical history of race as an intersectional identity, go beyond the narrow focus on blackness vs whiteness, and build critical capacity to engage in dialogue in diverse racial identities.
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The GWI Women in Global Careers Roundtable will provide you the opportunity to have engaging discussions regarding industry, positions and guidance on how women can excel in their chosen fields and the global arena. Industries to be covered include consumer products, financial and tax services, earth sciences, industrial security services, international trade, and risk and crisis management. Roles include finance and accounting, HR, IT, marketing, research, strategy, consulting, sustainability and more.
Attendees will come away from the event armed with useful tips and empowered to pursue a global career!
This event will be held on
November 7th
from 5:00 PM - 9:30 PM. For more information and to RSVP, click
here
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The Global Women's Institute will be hosting GWI Student Brown Bag Informal, an informational session on their work on violence against women and girls in humanitarian settings, on
November 13th
from 12:00 - 1:00 PM in the GWI Office. Learn about the restructuring of self-identity and socio-cultural norms as depicted in a film screening of Huang Hui-Chen's "Small Talk"（日常對話). Challenging the celluloid ceiling, a record number of Taiwanese women have taken up directorial roles and developed authorial voices through documentary. Using the camera and first-person narration, these women filmmakers have refashioned self-identities and made crucial social interventions. Hui-chen Huang is a prime example. Through the process of making Small Talk, Huang comes to terms with her mother's non-conforming gender and sexual identities, lays bare society's silencing of queer lives, and achieves greater self-acceptance as the offspring of a dysfunctional marriage. Following the film screening, a seminar will be given by Professor Tze-lan Sang of Michigan State University.
Please RSVP to the event
here
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The Global Women's Institute will be hosting GWI Student Brown Bag Informal, an informational session on their work on violence against women and girls in humanitarian settings, on
November 13th
from 12:00 - 1:00 PM in the GWI Office.
Have a question about GWI's research in relation to this area of focus or interested in a career in this field? Stop by, bring their lunch and a friend for a more in depth conversation about our work! The session will be hosted by GWI Research Scientist, Alina Potts.
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Please join the GW Department of Philosophy for our 2019 Sophia Endowed Lecture presented by Professor Robin Dembroff
on November 15th!
Decades of feminist theory have approached the question 'what is gender?' with an eye to gender as the system of patriarchy. Typically, accounts of patriarchy describe it as a static system in which males are dominant and females are subordinated. Professor Dembroff argues that this view fails to capture the dynamic, context-sensitive, and intersectional nature of patriarchy, and develops an alternative approach. On the professor's proposed account, patriarchy is not a system of male dominance, but rather, of "real men" dominance, where "real men" are persons who sufficiently exemplify features believed, in a given context, to be "natural" for men.
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J
oin Representative Lauren Underwood for a discussion on "Maternal Health and Disparities: Legislative Policy and Issues" on
Thursday, December 5th
from 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM at the Milken Institute School of Public Health Room B100A.
Congresswoman Underwood serves Illinois’ 14th Congressional District and is the first woman, the first person of color, and the first millennial to represent her community in Congress. Congresswoman Underwood also serves as co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus. Her discussion will focus on legislative and policy initiatives to address the health disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.
There will be a light breakfast served before the event.
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Upcoming D.C. Events on Gender
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In preparation for Beijing +25, Women’s Learning Partnership is bringing together thought-leaders on climate justice and women’s rights to discuss the role of women and youth in confronting the climate crisis. Speakers include Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Musimbi Kanyoro, WLP Board Chair and former President of Global Fund for Women, and Abena Busia, Poet and Ghanaian Ambassador to Brazil.
Join us
Tuesday, November 5
from 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies for a thought-provoking discussion and poetry reading about the nexus between the fight for climate justice and addressing political, social, and economic inequalities. RSVP for this event
here
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Join GWI, in partnership with the GW Multicultural Student Services Center, GreenGW and Black Millennials for a Flint invite for a screening of "Flint: The Poisoning of an American City."
The film will be followed by a discussion with the film director, David Barnhart as well as a Flint resident, Rev. Greg Timmons, Flint Recovery Coord.
Don't miss the screening on
Thursday, November 14
, from 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM in the Marvin Center Amphitheater (3rd Floor)!
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On
Thursday, November 14th
from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM at Kintsugi Cafe in The Eaton Hotel, Events at AW is celebrating the book launch of
The Feminist Handbook: Practical Tools to Resist Sexism and Dismantle the Patriarchy
by Dr. Joanne Bagshaw, professor of psychology and women’s studies, and writer of the popular feminist blog
The Third Wave
for
Psychology Today
. General admission to the event is free and open to the public (
RSVP is required
).
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Women make up 80% of healthcare workers, while 60% of the industry's key decision makers are men.
At the Women in Health Policy seminar held from
November 14th
to
November 16th
, college women from across the U.S. considering a career in health policy will learn how to make an impact in the legislative and political processes, explore hot-button issues on Capitol Hill, and expand their professional networks in Washington, DC and beyond. Experienced women who have broken the glass ceiling on both sides of the aisle are our faculty, and government, nonprofit, and corporate offices across DC are our classrooms.
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In honor of the anniversary of the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women, Women’s Freedom Forum is holding its 9th annual Congressional photo exhibition event to address the implications and consequences of violence against women and girls worldwide, and the history and advancements of the movement to stop violence against women. The event, entitled “Uniting Voices Worldwide” will take place in the House of Representatives, on
Wednesday, November 20
.
It is our sincere hope and we all strive that with united efforts and voices, we can end the violence against women everywhere!
Register for this event
here.
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Call For Essay Submissions
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The
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
(CSW) invites submissions of paper, poster, and roundtable proposals for our 30
th
Annual Thinking Gender Student Research Conference. This year’s conference theme,
Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
, will focus on sexual violence as a function of state and capitalist violence, emphasizing feminist, queer, trans, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions.
We are specifically interested in presentations that center anti-imperialist, anti-racist, Indigenous, intersectional, anti-carceral/abolitionist frameworks for understanding sexual violence. We invite proposals for papers, roundtable presentations, and posters related to studies of sexual violence in the context of empire, settler colonialism, incarceration, immigration detention and deportation, and labor exploitation, among other forms of state and capitalist violence. We also welcome research on the criminalization of gender and sexual non-conformity, social institutions and carceral control, and intersectional abolitionist responses—historical and contemporary—to punishment.
Submissions are due next Monday,
November 4, 2019
. All proposals must be submitted online.
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Your voice, your experiences, and your insights are critical for a special issue of
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
focused on the experiences of graduate students of color learning, working, navigating, and matriculating in higher education. We seek a diversity of perspectives from marginalized and minoritized populations in the academy, including students currently in MA and PhD programs as well as recent graduates across disciplines.
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publication that centers the study of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian American women, genders, and families. For this special issue, we are interested in reflective essays that explore graduate students of colors’ lives—their struggles and triumphs. Additionally, we invite essays that center the observations and best practices of students of color and articulate authors’ visions for the future of departments, graduate schools, and campus communities.
In soliciting these essays, the journal aims to provide a space for emerging scholars to contemplate the formal structure and informal customs of graduate school as well as the aforementioned factors’ import and impact for graduate students of color as they make their way in the academy. The special issue is an effort to create a dialogue among graduate students of color for sharing ideas, affirmation, and guidance. It is also an endeavor to build a forum for graduate students of color to provide feedback to the journal’s other readers, which include college and university faculty, administrators, and staff persons.
Due to the sensitive nature of these issues, authors may request that their work be published anonymously. Submissions are due
November 30, 2019
to
[email protected].
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The organizers of Bodies of Knowledge 2020 invite proposals for individual conference papers, panels with 3-5 conference papers, informal roundtable panels, creative presentations (e.g., poetry, spoken word, creative nonfiction, photography exhibits, other art installations), and tabling by community organizations. We welcome participation from undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and community organizers. Proposals may address topics raised by the keynoters—trans community organizing, Black transgender feminism, trans childhoods, trans theorizing about gender-markers on legal documents—or may respond more broadly to the theme of re-envisioning transgender lives, cultures, politics, media visibility, and so on.
Bodies of Knowledge is an LGBTQ-themed event founded in 2008 in memory of Sean
Kennedy, a young man who was killed in Greenville in 2007. This biennial event aims to create a safer, more understanding community for everyone by offering high-quality presentations that change the conversation about LGBTQ experience in the Upstate and beyond, thereby improving the climate of the Upstate for its LGBTQ youth and promoting civil and well-informed discussion around sexuality and nonconforming gender identities.
The event will be held in Spartanburg, South Carolina on
April 9 - 10, 2020
and will feature an exciting lineup of keynote speakers will speak to the politics, culture, and health issues surrounding the transgender community.
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Deadline:
Today,
November 1, 2019
The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields and to partake of the American dream.
Each award is for up to $25,000 in stipend support a year, as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for one to two years.
Click
here
to access the online application.
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Deadline:
November 19, 2019
The CLS is a fully-funded overseas language and cultural immersion summer program (eight to ten weeks) for American undergraduate and graduate students. The program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. You must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible for this opportunity.
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Deadline:
February 3, 2020
The U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Program provides academic year fellowships to institutions of higher education. The grant to GWU, written by the Institute for Middle East Studies and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, assists graduate (PhD and Master's candidates) and professional students (JD, MPH, DrPH, MBA and MD) at George Washington University to further language study and area/international studies.
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Turkish
For incoming and current graduate students. More information about eligibility, awards, and access to an application can be found
here
.
For current undergraduates and graduate students.
Click
here
for more details.
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Deadline:
February 7, 2020
The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) invites applications for a 10-week summer research fellowship for undergraduate students (rising juniors or seniors) in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program will be held from May 20th to July 24th, 2020 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To apply, students must complete an online application, which will be available starting November 4, 2019. The application deadline is February 7, 2020. For more details about the program, please see the attached announcement and flyer. For more information, click
here
or contact
[email protected]
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Job and Internship Opportunities
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Research Intern, A Wider Circle
In this internship you will develop and hone research skills by collecting and analyzing investigative qualitative and quantitative data, which will inform research team members, staff, volunteers and contributors about issues that relate to poverty. These issues may include federal, state, and local programs and policies that relate to poverty, as well as the state of economic opportunity for low-income Americans.
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Political Intern, NARAL Pro-Choice America
The Political Intern will support NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Political Department by conducting targeted research including: federal, gubernatorial, statewide, and local candidates and campaigns for the 2018 election cycles.
As the nation’s leading pro-choice advocacy group, NARAL Pro-Choice America is dedicated to protecting and expanding reproductive freedom for all Americans, including abortion access.
Learn more about this opportunity
here
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Outreach and Prevention Intern, FAIR Girls
Join the FAIR Girls team and make a difference in the lives of survivors of human trafficking. As a Outreach and Prevention Intern you will be responsible for spreading the word about human trafficking to professionals, community members, and at-risk youth in Washington, DC.
Learn more about the position
here
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Equality for Women and Girls Program Associate, The Summit Foundation
The Summit Foundation is a private family foundation founded with a mission to create a work where people can thrive and nature can flourish by making grants in three main program areas: Equality for Women and Girls, Sustainable Cities, and the Mesoamerican Reef.
The Program Associate supports the Program Director in working to meet goals advanced through grant-making activity and through the foundation's direct engagement in appropriate initiatives. Learn more about the position
here
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Gender Equality Fellowship
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The Asia Foundation is seeking a dynamic student currently enrolled in a master’s degree program focused on international development or equivalent for an unpaid semester-long fellowship from September to December 2019. The Gender Fellow will support The Asia Foundation’s gender equality and women’s empowerment programmatic areas (women’s political participation, economic empowerment, and rights and security); provide support on gender integration activities across the Foundation’s programs; provide editorial and conceptual feedback on project proposals; and assist with logistics and events.
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Join Our LinkedIn Network!
Our brand new WGSS Alumni page is here! Follow this page to receive the latest updates on alumni news, opportunities, and WGSS events! Connect with our alumni, faculty, and current students. Add us to your network today!
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WGSS "Envisioning Change" Alumni Speakers (Left to Right): Kate Black, Andrea Pagano-Reyes, and Layla Moughari
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Contribute to the WGSS News Digest
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Thursdays at 4:00 PM
to have your event featured in our upcoming digests.
Find the form
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. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Pictured is a brand of Always sanitary pads.
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Procter & Gamble, the company behind Always brand sanitary products, is taking strides to make their products more gender neutral. The Venus symbol, which is historically associated with the female sex, is being removed from Always' sanitary pads. "For over 35 years Always has championed girls and women, and we will continue to do so,' the company said in a statement.' We’re also committed to diversity and inclusion and are on a continual journey to understand the needs of all of our consumers." This move highlights people who menstruate but do not identify as women. We applaud this step to acknowledge transgender and nonbinary customers. To learn more about this groundbreaking step for gender neutrality click
here
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