The 2015 Sally Miller Gearhart lecture by Ana-Maurine Lara was a beautifully unique addition to the biennial lecture series tradition. Ana-Maurine Lara, award-winning author, scholar, and poet, gave a rich reading of some of her original poetry, incorporating visual imagery, movement, call-and-response and audience involvement through the reading of short poems.

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies would like to thank Dr. Lara, Carla Blumberg and Sally Miller Gearhart, the faculty and staff of WGS, students, members of the community and all who contributed to this event and the lecture series, whether through organization or attendance.

See you in 2017 for the next Sally Miller Gearhart lecture!

“Same-Sex Intimacies in an Early Modern African Text about an Ethiopian Female Saint, Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros”

Who: Wendy Belcher (Princeton University)
When: 12 noon, Friday, April 24
Where: Browsing Room of the Knight Library

The 17th-century Ethiopian book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros (Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros) features a lifelong partnership between two women and the depiction of same-sex sexuality among nuns.

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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and there are lots of activities, conversations, resources and help on campus this month for raising awareness, helping survivors and rallying the campus community to push for positive change.

You can see the full list of events here on the student life website.

Remember: Anyone can be the target of sexual violence, and everyone can contribute to a healthier, safer campus.

Professor Martínez will give the keynote address at the 9th annual WGSS student research colloquium tomorrow, April 3 at Portland State University.

Talk details:

When: April 10-12th, 2015
Where: University of Oregon

The 12^th annual Western Regional International Health Conference will be an opportunity for a diverse group of students, activists, academics, and leaders passionate about the advancement of global health and social justice to explore the determinants and challenges in fostering physical and mental health at every stage of life.

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When: Monday, April 13th, 4:00 pm
Where: Browsing Room, Knight Library
Who: Ana-Maurine Lara

Facebook/RSVP link

Drawing on poetry and critical scholarship, Ana-Maurine Lara will lead audiences into the archives of the imagination, to consider some invisible spaces of lesbian desire, love and freedom from the past as a lexicon for imagining new collective futures.

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When/Where: Friday, May 1st, 4:00 pm, Many Nations Longhouse

Intertwined is a space where students, professors, artists, community members and activists from the Northwest will come together to engage in discussion of how to build Women of Color Solidarity. This conference is designed to discuss strategies of change and celebrate our shared struggles through topics such as blogging, comedy, music and community organizing. This year’s panelists and workshop presenters will facilitate discussions around multiple topics within Women of Color communities such as LGBTQIA, academia, Indigenous environmental resistance, feminism, colonialism, internalized oppression and more.
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Professor Erica Rand is a courtesy research associate at the University of Oregon this year while on sabbatical from Bates College, Maine. In Fall 2014, she taught WGS 422: Queer/Trans Sports Studies.

Off campus, Professor Rand is an avid figure skater, and has found a new home rink at the Lane County Fairgrounds. Check out her story at the Register Guard.

Professor Rand has also written a book about her experiences and the intersection of this unique sport with gender studies, Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice.

On Tuesday, February 17th, Professor Balogun will give her lecture, “Beauty Diplomacy and Entrepreneurial Masculinity: State and Market in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry,” as part of the 2014-15 African Studies lecture series.

Where: Knight Library Browsing Room

When: 12:00 – 1:15 pm

Please see this link for additional information.

The 2015 Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies has been determined! Please join us for the latest installment in this biennial lecture series.

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