Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University

02/27/2025

By Colin Bowyer on Feb. 17, 2025 Dr. Kirsten Hextrum, assistant professor in the School of Language, Culture, and Society, untangles what recent rulings by the Trump Administration and NCAA mean for transgender student athletes Image Dr. Kirsten Hextrum February 19, 2025 President Trump signed an ex...

02/26/2025

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01/17/2025

2070 People’s Encyclopedia Zine Making Workshop with Walidah Imarisha
Friday, January 31, 2025 • 2-4 p.m.
Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center

Open to OSU faculty, staff, and students • RSVP with [email protected]

Workshop presented by Walidah Imarisha, an educator and writer. She is the co-editor of two anthologies, "Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements," and "Another World is Possible." Imarisha is the author of "Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption," which won a 2017 Oregon Book Award, as well as the poetry collection "Scars/Stars." She has received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. She is the writer and co-producer of "Space to Breathe" (2024), a documentary/science fiction hybrid film set in an abolitionist future. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and is the director of PSU’s Center for Black Studies. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Oregon State University and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.

Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Affirming Multivocal Humanities from the Mellon Foundation.


Walidah Imarisha: Dreaming and Building Just Futures Lecture
Friday, January 31, 2025 • 5-6 pm
Memorial Union Journey Room

Open to OSU faculty, staff, and students • RSVP with [email protected]

In this workshop with Walidah Imarisha, participants will imagine themselves 50 years in the future and engage in writing entries for the 2070 People’s Encyclopedia about current issues and events now, as a way of imagining how the world today can lead to the world we want.

Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Affirming Multivocal Humanities from the Mellon Foundation.

School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University

01/16/2025

Students, your leadership could earn you $2,000!

Are you making a difference in your community? The Schoenstein Sustaining Excellence Scholarship is looking for leaders like YOU. This one-time $2,000 scholarship will be awarded to six OSU undergrads who are building a more caring and equitable OSU and local community.

📆 Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. PT on Saturday, Feb. 15.
🏫 Students from all OSU campuses may apply.

Apply now: https://bit.ly/SchoensteinScholarship2025


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01/10/2025

Congrats to WGSS PhD student I-Yun Lee, who joins the editorial team of Feminist Formations as a new editorial assistant! Feminist Formations is edited by WGSS professor Patti Duncan, with editorial team members aman agah and Eric Warren, both of whom are PhD students in WGSS. The journal is published by Johns Hopkins University Press and housed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at OSU. For more info, see www.feministformations.org

Join us in welcoming our newest addition to the editorial staff, I-Yun Lee. I-Yun (she/her) is a PhD student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a focus on sport, q***r feminist critique, and social justice studies. For her dissertation, she will be researching the experiences of women of color in diversity pipeline programs hosted by professional sports organizations. We are excited to have I-Yun joining us as a new editorial assistant!

01/08/2025

OSU's New Beginnings for Tribal Students (NBTS) program has applications open for summer internship support (extra stipend and mentorship) and can help cover the cost of attending science conferences.

NBTS serves Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian undergrads in natural sciences enrolled at OSU. E-campus students and past NBTS participants are also welcome to apply.

NBTS 2025 support for undergrads:
• $2000 to approved summer interns in addition to their internship pay (students secure the internship and must be at least 8 weeks long in summer). Participants also join a summer mentorship cohort.
• Up to $1500 per student per year for attending science conferences.
More information and links to the two separate applications are here:

A new USDA NIFA grant offers financial incentive for Native American undergraduate students in natural science majors attending OSU or SWOCC.

01/07/2025

Visit the Student Billing page for important dates and deadlines. For a printable calendar, go to the Student Account Services Calendar section on the Student Billing page.

12/17/2024

Assistant Professor Dr. Razan Ghazzawi published a review of anthropologist Rhoda Kanaaneh’s award-winning book, The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America. Kanaaneh’s ethnography examines the racialized and gendered dynamics of U.S. migration and asylum regimes, providing invaluable insights for scholars, activists, and practitioners engaged in q***r migration studies.

12/10/2024

Congratulations to Tanveer Hossain Anoy on the successful defense of their Master's thesis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a graduate minor in Q***r Studies!
Their thesis is titled "Still Existing, Still Surviving: Origin Stories and the Shaping of Q***r Activist Grassroots Archives in Bangladesh."
Tanveer's committee members are Dr. Mehra Shirazi (chair), Dr. Patti Duncan, Dr. Bradley Boovy, and Dr. Spirit Brooks.

Congratulations, Tanveer!

12/09/2024

There's still time to register for WGSS/QS 431/531: Q***r of Color Critiques, to be taught in Winter 2025 by Dr. Razan Ghazzawi, open to both undergraduate and graduate students!

11/05/2024

Important deadlines
October 6
• Drop a Course (100% Tuition Refund)
• Add a course Online without Department Approval
October 13
• Add a Course Online with Department Approval
October 20
• Withdraw from a Course (50% Tuition Refund)
November 11
• Veteran’s Day – university is closed
November 15 by noon
• Change the Grading Basis of a Course
• Withdraw from a Course (No Refunds Available)
November 23-24
• Thanksgiving Break
December 6
• Withdraw from the Term
• Classes End
December 9-13
• Finals Week

11/04/2024

Assistant Professor Razan Ghazzawi was awarded a professional development fellowship at MESA Academy for the 2024/2025 academic year. Fellows are invited to workshops and seminars to present their work, receive constructive feedback, and collaborate within the academy’s community. Congratulations!

11/01/2024

I am reaching out to let you know that the deadline for students to complete health and immunization requirements is November 8th. Students who have not completed the requirements by then will have a registration hold placed on their account. Please encourage students to check their Patient Portal accounts to confirm that they have completed their requirements. If students have questions, they should send a secure message to immunizations on their Patient Portal or they can send an email to [email protected].

Thank you,

Jasmine Washington (she/her) | Immunization Compliance Manager | Student Health Services
Phone: 541.737.7573 | Fax: 541.737.9665

10/30/2024

Dates and Deadlines
Nov 15 by noon: Change the Grading Basis of a Fall Course
Nov 15: Withdraw from a Fall Course (No Refunds Available)
Nov 18: Winter Priority Registration Phase 1 Opens (Waitlist Not Available)

• Term registration will now start on Monday instead of Sunday.
• For Winter 2025, registration will begin on Monday, November 18.

10/23/2024

Check out the latest issue of Feminist Formations, which includes a book review of micha cárdenas' Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media by WGSS PhD student Yola Gómez! This issue also has an afterword by recent PhD graduate Miranda Findlay! Feminist Formations is housed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at OSU and edited by WGSS professor Patti Duncan. The editorial team includes WGSS PhD students aman agah and Eric Warren. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org

We're excited to announce the latest issue of Feminist Formations, available in print and online: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53347
This amazing issue includes cover art by Negar Nahidian, poetry by Jamila Osman, and articles by Isabel Millán, Tamanika Ferguson, Michael Washington, Rebekkah Mulholland, Themal Ellawala, and Christine Rosales, Tiffani Rojas, & Regina Langhout. At the center of this issue we feature a powerful dossier about Amanda Lock Swarr's book, Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine, curated by David A. Rubin, with essays by Tushabe wa Tushabe, Xavier Livermon, Hil Malatino, David A. Rubin, and B Camminga, with a special response from Amanda Lock Swarr. We include three book reviews by Iqra Shagufta Cheema, Yola Gómez, and Taylor Maki, and an afterword by former editorial assistant and managing editor Miranda Findlay. As editor Patti Duncan notes in the Introduction, writings in this issue engage themes of feminist activism and resistance, intellectual inheritances and genealogies, and the possibilities of feminist world-making.

Feminist Formations is edited by Patti Duncan, housed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by Johns Hopkins University Press. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org

10/21/2024

LinkedIn Learning is available to OSU faculty, staff and students for free. Leverage this online learning library to hone your soft skills, your technical and business acumen, and meet your learning and development goals. Use it to supplement your curricula and curate content to support your programs and initiatives.

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10/16/2024

You can register for a zoom link if you can’t join us in person:

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Oct 16, 2024 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://oregonstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvceqtqTkiE91hEcx7PYdID45ERs927_4r

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.