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08/23/2022

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Two months after the Supreme Court decision, a seismic shift in who can access abortion.

12/11/2021

Art pushes boundaries ... but it also connects us---individuals---
with who knows what? or who knows whom?
Nicole Rudick visits the work of Rosemary Mayer.

In June 1971, Rosemary Mayer began attending a women’s consciousness-raising group in New York City. She went with her friend, the artist Adrian Piper,

05/09/2021

How is it that ...
women (and mothers among them) continue to
confuse us so much? Is this why we can't stop
explaining them ... in such simple ways?
Simple ways
that suit us.
Come study with us ... In Women's Studies.
We have great courses lined up for Summer and Fall of 2021.

Give. Me. A. Break.

04/11/2021

A study in masculinity, pure and simple,
even as it parades in mess and oh-so-very complex.
Heaven knows, dudes dueling is an art
to which even little girls may aspire
and away from which even little boys run like the devil.
COME STUDY WITH US THIS SUMMER>
JUMP INTO CONVERSATION: WMST 30000 -
COLLOQUIUM in Women's Studies.
We'd love to meet you, talk and listen.

In which journalist Matt Labash (a Never Trumper) and radio host Eric Metaxas (a Trump supporter) agree to disagree

12/28/2020

Through the eyes of Artist Sue Johnson, women--as depicted
by 20th Century advertising--were never more than HALF HUMAN.
Always at least half THING, They may have been consumers,
but they were also ... the consumed.
And hey! By the way, we're studying this very phenomenon
(and much more)~ this Spring ...
in Women's Studies.
For more info Look us up on KSU's website!
Check out our courses via the Registrar's page.
Or Email us: [email protected]

Artist echoes surreal views of females conjoined with mechanical objects.

12/09/2020

Come study with us.
Spring's [SpringSemester, that is] just around the corner.

11/17/2020

Knowledge is power.
Come get empowered

11/02/2020

Please come join us in the Spring.

10/30/2020

Women’s Studies/SPRING 2021. Plan on it!
WMST - 30000 COLLOQUIUM IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
This is our classic conversation course. We launch a semester long inquiry into zones both conventional (Is is a man’s world?) and not (What does feminism have to do with Marilyn Monroe and vice versa?), both contemporary (How do you measure the loss of RBG on the Supreme Court?) and historical (What was—and is—The Woman Question?)
WMST - 30095 SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
We have three (count them!) compelling topics open for exploration.
Take one—or two—or take all three. The subjects, by their very nature, invite you.
WMST - 30095 – 002
THE ESSENTIAL WORK OF WOMEN/PANDEMIC 2020-21: REVIEWING AND REVALUING SITUATIONS
This course is, as you might guess, inspired by both realities and headlines born of
the pandemic that hit worldwide early in 2020—stripping bare many of our illusions
about the lives we live in context, the work that keeps the world going—no matter.
By summer of 2020, the truth was out: story after story, the unsung work of women. Our studies will begin where we are, but we won’t be stopping there.
WMST - 30095 – 003
REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN POPULAR CULTURE
This course has been around! It’s vital stuff: the business of representation is alive and well—fueled as always by s*x and violence, even if repackaged and remarketed with makeovers and twists.
WMST - 30095 – 004
R**E CULTURE – ROOTS, EVOLUTIONS, FACTS AND FICTIONS There is nothing simple or easy or incontrovertible or cool in R**e Culture.
Where shall we dig to locate its roots, trace its evolutions? Parse apart the reality from the myth?
In an address to a men’s conference, Andrea Dworkin boiled the subject down to powers practically guaranteed—"power exercised … institutionalized … protected …” Come study with us.
All our courses for Spring 2021 are 100% Online.
Our courses on offer for Spring are rich and varied and relevant as the air. The Colloquium, Representations of Women.
R**e Culture and The Essential Work of Women/Pandemic 2020 are brand new. Electric. Important.
Please come join us if you can. For more information, email Suzanne L. Holt > [email protected]

10/22/2020

Join KSU's Teach-In, Friday Oct. 23rd.

Don’t Hate – Debate (and Vote)! University Events & Protocol | An all-day Kent State Teach-In (via Zoom) on Friday, Oct. 23 beginning at 10 a.m. Register NOW! The coming election is important. Your vote is your voice and it’s essential that everyone’s voice be heard. It’s also important to...

08/09/2020

The connections between Witch and Q***r go deep
and way far back~ and wide.
Witches of long ago knew the wicked process of q***ring,
as powers set against them, inscribing them w/ names,
imbuing them with deviltry, damnability.
COME STUDY with us THIS FALL.
WMST 20095-001 – WITCHES: THE MONSTROUS FEMININE
IN PANDEMIC TIMES (CRN: 29825)
The Witch. The Monstrous Feminine. Pandemic.
These are all words with screams built in—darkness, danger, fear ...
and history. There’s something very old here that’s somehow hung on.
Our course will pursue a dig into the telling past, but we will also study
the very time we’re in—and how gender melds with monstrous,
how constructions of femininity sit precariously on edges of witch, bitch,
w***e, she- devil, how female agency triggers alarm and accusation,
how the phenomenon of a pandemic alters permissions,
disrupts but at once reinforces order. 100% Online.

How witchcraft has become a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ communityBeauty Feature30.10.2019TextAmelia AbrahamLong seen as a symbol of otherness, witchcraft has become a way for q***r folk to transform their difference into a superpower Welcome to Witch Week, a campaign dedicated to exploring how witchcr...