An article written by WGS Professor Michael Bronski appeared in Inquest, a journal from Harvard Law School whose mission is to advance "bold ideas to end mass incarceration in the United States". Professor Bronski's article, titled "Gay Liberation and the Carceral State", states that "recovering a vision of solidarity with incarcerated people may be just what people disaffected by the gay rights movement need today," according to Inquest's website.
Professor Viterna's editorial on the cruelty of Texas' abortion laws appeared in CNN's Opinion section.
Viterna's article discusses the case of Kate Cox, a Texas woman who was denied an abortion for her non-viable pregnancy. She draws comparisons to her own research in El Salvador, where women are also required to carry non-viable pregnancies to term, often resulting in serious health complications.
WGS Professor Robin Bernstein's forthcoming book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, has garnered praise from activist icon Angela Davis, anti-racist activist and professor Ibram X. Kendi, among many other notable scholars. Read what they said here.
WGS' GenderSci Lab, led by Dr. Sarah Richardson, welcomes Alexandra Kralick as its first postdoctoral fellow.
Kralick earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Anthropology where her research focused on differences in orangutan sex morphology. At GenderSci Lab, she hopes to bring "the interplay of sex, gendered assumptions, physical activity, and the skeleton from the non-human to the human world," Kralick said....
WGS concentrator Tatiana Miranda's thesis was named Most Interesting Thesis by The Crimson in their list of year-end superlatives.
Miranda's thesis explores how "Joker fanfiction writers — particularly those who have marginalized identities — use their writing to reckon with their experiences", according to The Crimson.
Professor Steph Burt's brand-new course on Taylor Swift is making national headlines.
In ENG 183ts, students will "learn how to study fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts, transatlantic texts, and queer subtexts," according to the the course website.
