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An Innovative Collaboration Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and the Women’s and Gender Education (WAGE) Center were pleased to collaborate with Visual Communication Design faculty Sonja Durr, MFA to host the Black Lives and Movements Matter: Black History Month graphic design contest in her Visual Communication Design 3 – Design for Social Change students.…

Learn more about the Economics Program at EWU! Join us for a virtual information session to: Discover the variety of academic paths that the Economics Department offers Learn how our program may complement the major you are currently pursuing Get to know our faculty and their diverse research interests Discuss elective courses that may interest…

We gather weekly for a casual feminist conversation about current events, networking, and a brown-bag lunch. Despite the pandemic, we have continued to offer this space virtually. Students, staff, faculty, and members of the larger community are invited to join us via video chat Winter 2021 Weekly Meeting Time: Tuesday Noon-1 pm

The Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies Program and the Women’s and Gender Education Center are the lead organizers of the Activist In Residence (AIR) program on the EWU campus. For an eighth year, AIR will bring an activist to campus to work with EWU students, staff, faculty, and community members during winter quarter of 2021.…

Join us on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 for a virtual informational Session To DISCOVER the variety of the academic paths that the Economics Department offers. To LEARN how our program may complement the major you are currently pursuing. To GET TO KNOW our faculty and their diverse research interests. To DISCUSS elective courses that may…

Katie Horvath, the executive director of the Spectrum LGBTQ+ Center, Judy Rohrer, the director of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at EWU, and Naghmana Sherazi, a board member of the Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane worked together on this Guest Opinion for the Spokesman-Review. They remind readers that 52 community partners in and…

From the Inlander Article: Dr. Judy Rohrer, director of Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at Eastern Washington University, provides context for Trump’s moves: “By mobilizing colorblind ideology, these attacks turn civil rights arguments on their heads,” she writes in an emailed statement. “In short form, they argue that discussing and/or dismantling racism and sexism is…

White Supremacy, the 2020 Election & the Pacific Northwest All seminars are on Thursdays from 4 -5:30 p.m. PST Free and Open to the Public White supremacy has played an enormous role in the 2020 election: framing debates, stoking fear, and fomenting division. In the election aftermath, we are creating space to come together, analyze…

EWU Workshop Series: Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies All sessions will begin at 1 p.m. Pacific/4 p.m. Eastern (Note that Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. ends at 2:00 a.m., November 1, 2020). All readings are available online at Palgrave book site: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811506130. HCMS Seminar Series Flyer  

Despite a year that ended in a virtual environment, the Women’s and Gender Studies Annual Report is filled with videos, images, and stories of our 2019-2020 academic year. Please click the image below to read the report. This is our last annual report from before we got our sexy new name. We are now Gender,…