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Our WAGE Center work-study students have spent some time over the last couple of weeks creating this website of intersectional readings, resources, and videos related to COVID-19. If you have ideas or suggestions to add, please reach out to llogan83@ewu.edu.

People are still saying “the virus doesn’t discriminate,” but we know that’s not true. The virus is hitting vulnerable populations the hardest – our elderly, those with underlying health conditions, unhoused people, Natives, Black and Brown communities and especially those living at any of these intersections. These are the same folks disproportionately trapped in prisons,…

Eleven EWU students enrolled in Catherine Girard’s art history seminar travelled to Los Angeles, California, where they visited the special exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

EWU Rhetoric & Technical Communication alumna Raquel DeLeon (formerly Dean) recently published her article “User Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Latinos with the Frontier Behavioral Health Website,” in Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum. DeLeon shows in her article that technical communication and advocacy are not mutually exclusive endeavors. DeLeon’s…

Eastern Washington University alumna Maura Lammers finds a career after getting her MFA in Nonfiction and achieving publication in The New York Times and The Masters Review Eastern Washington University alumni Maura Lammers has had her fair share of successes and learning moments in her life. She comes from a diverse professional background and has…

Call For Papers: Pencil’s Down, Student-Led Symposium, Co-Sponsored by EWU English Department, Stands Up Against Bigotry and Weaponized Hatred Symposium Date: To Be Announced Symposium Location/Format: To Be Announced In light of the recent COVID-19 epidemic/pandemic, we are reevaluating the format/location/date/programming for the symposium and will be making an announcement about alternative format/location/date/programming soon. Abstracts…

Speech Acts in the Age of Normalized Violence: Understanding truth and meaning-making in the fight for social justice Hosted Thursday, Feb 13th, 2020 | 12-2pm -| HAR 201 Natasha Lennard is a journalist and essayist. She is a columnist for The Intercept, editor for the Commune Magazine, and her work has appeared regularly in The…

SILENT SKY By: Lauren Gunderson Directed by: Sara Goff Silent Sky tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer ahead of her time. It is 1900 and Henrietta has the opportunity to work at Harvard University as a human computer, one of Edward Pickering’s “harem,” mapping the stars but receiving no scientific credit. Silent Sky is the poignant tale of…

Winter Quarter 2020 | Mar. 6-14 “Silent Sky” by Lauren Gunderson Directed by Sara Goff “When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer…

Like many university professors, EWU’s Mimi Marinucci uses her own book in one of the classes she teaches. But she never imagined that a former student would help her promote her work to readers half-way around the world. Marinucci is a professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at Eastern. In her Queer Theory…