10/10/2022
To our students, to our alumni, to our prospective students:
As a department, we hope to empower students to be, and to encourage scholarship that is, politically aware, ethically proficient, and conscious of injustice.
In this regard, we as faculty of the JCU Communications and Media Studies department, affirm the rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies and lives. We are losing rights, won through social struggles, that appeared to be untouchable and that are now under attack and being questioned. We amplify the voices of, and add our voices to, the fight for sovereignty of women in Iran, in India, in the USA, in Italy, and in every other nation where women are systematically oppressed.
We will continue to work in solidarity with our extended JCU community, for a university space that not only provides a place of safety for all, but that actively seeks to end misogyny and patriarchal domination.
The Department of Communications and Media Studies
