UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Louisville

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is the interdisciplinary examination of women, gender , and sexuality across cultures and epochs. Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies addresses significant omissions in traditional scholarship by examining the history, contributions and accomplishments of women and by studying the ways gender has structured intellectual and social life. Women's, Gender and

Sexuality Studies calls attention to how issues of gender intersect with other structures of power such as race, class, and sexualities.

Congratulations to our graduates! We are all so very proud of you!! 🎓🎓🎓🎉🎉🎉
05/09/2026

Congratulations to our graduates! We are all so very proud of you!! 🎓🎓🎓🎉🎉🎉

WGST students and faculty had a great time at the Nativity event with the Nativity Academy!!! 📸: from the Center for BA...
04/17/2026

WGST students and faculty had a great time at the Nativity event with the Nativity Academy!!!

📸: from the Center for BAE

Join us for "Steal Away Medicine: Herbs, Autonomy, and the Right to Heal," a lecture and interactive workshop facilitate...
04/01/2026

Join us for "Steal Away Medicine: Herbs, Autonomy, and the Right to Heal," a lecture and interactive workshop facilitated by Spelman College Food Studies Prof. Selima Harleston Lust on Friday, April 10, 2026. "Steal Away Medicine" is the second installment in the 2026 Black Women's Studies series. Please see a full description of the event below and contact Dr. Shelby Pumphrey at [email protected] with any questions.

Date: Friday April 10, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Belonging, Access, and Engagement - Multi Purpose Room, University of Louisville

Steal Away Medicine: Herbs, Autonomy, and the Right to Heal
Herbal medicine has never been just about plants. For enslaved African Americans, it was one of the few tools available for caring for the body, the spirit, and one another — practiced in stolen hours, in the dark, and in the margins of a system that refused to recognize their full humanity. Drawing from slave narratives, ethnobotanical research, and the enduring practices of African American healing traditions, clinical herbalist and adjunct professor of African American Herbalism at Spelman College, Selima Harleston Lust, explores what it means to tend to yourself and each other when no one else recognizes the needs or wants of your inner life. You'll encounter stories of everyday decisions, small, yet deeply meaningful acts of nurturing that reveal a deeper framework of healing for modern times: one rooted in skill, relationship, and a refusal to surrender. The heart of the workshop is hands-on medicine making. Participants will be introduced to a selection of plants drawn from this living tradition, explore what each one offers the body, mind and spirit, and leave with a handcrafted herbal preparation to take home.

Today the UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department hosted 8th graders from Nativity Academy at St, Bonifac...
03/25/2026

Today the UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department hosted 8th graders from Nativity Academy at St, Boniface, a private middle school located by the UofL Health Sciences campus.

Dr. Tami Harbolt was an administrator at Nativity from 2011-2018 and was happy to organize a day for the students to visit Belknap campus.

The students were able to meet former Nativity students who are currently enrolled at UofL, including WGST alumni Ava Rowan and UofL football player, Blake Ruffin. Yahaira Perez Molina, a Political Science major, led the students on a tour of campus and invited Black and Latinx fraternities and sororities to the event, and several departments sent representatives to meet with the 8th graders.

The day culminated with a fun activity led by WGST MA student, Robin Thurman about Women's history! WGST wants to also thank the staff at the BAE for hosting, Athletics for awesome swag, and CraftHouse Pizza for donating lunch!

Please join the UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department for our Zine Workshop!!! Thursday April 9, 2026 ...
03/24/2026

Please join the UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department for our Zine Workshop!!!

Thursday April 9, 2026 from noon-1:30pm in the BAE!!

If you have magazines you can donate, please drop them off in the WGST office (3rd floor Stevenson Hall)! Courtney Stine from the Art Library will also be joining us in the BAE to tell our participants how they can donate their Zines to the Art Library!!!!

Please join us in celebrating our Maddox Prize Winners!!! The student winners will be presenting their award winning pap...
03/23/2026

Please join us in celebrating our Maddox Prize Winners!!! The student winners will be presenting their award winning papers in Ekstrom Library , room W104 on April 13th from 1:00 – 2:00 pm. Please join us!!!

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department would like to express the Department's immense pride about our stu...
03/23/2026

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department would like to express the Department's immense pride about our student panel that presented at the Community Engaged Learning Symposium, held at the Shelby Campus.

Congratulations and Salute to our students (From left to right: Ginny Duncan, Lea Clark, Robin Thurman, Sierra Sheard, Sophie Amaya, and Lauren Stone) who worked together to seamlessly present their process in conducting transformative research with Sweet Evening Breeze and Up With Women.

Our blossoming scholars shared their reflections and observations on what for some was their first experience with community-based research methodology. We thank Jessica Eggleston from Public Health for moderating the panel, and it was delightful to see the Dogs in Society instructor meet our wonderful WGST students as well!!

We’re updating our website to show prospective students why WGST matters, and your stories are the best way to do that. ...
03/19/2026

We’re updating our website to show prospective students why WGST matters, and your stories are the best way to do that. Your perspectives are so important to us and we would love to hear about what you have been doing, and how are you using your WGST skills in the real world—at work, in your community, or just in life? Drop a comment or DM us—we can’t wait to hear from you! 💬

UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor, Dr. Tami Harbolt accompanied Bridget Kelly, Robin Thurman, and Sa...
03/02/2026

UofL Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor, Dr. Tami Harbolt accompanied Bridget Kelly, Robin Thurman, and Savannah Dowell, three of our department’s seniors, to an off campus visit to the Brown School. They visited two senior seminar classes at the high school, where Robin, Bridget, and Savannah led an hour-long presentation on Women's History, alongside discussing the advantages of earning an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree.

In commenting on today, Dr. Harbolt states: “I was not only impressed with their professionalism; I was also impressed when each introduced their personal lists of affiliated causes and works. From support for sustainability, to urban youth, to individuals with HIV, each of our departmental representatives exhibited the attributes that make our department meaningful and impactful. They were confident and engaging speakers, respectful to the younger students, and created an interactive trivia game that kept their audience engaged. At no point did I feel the need to step in and guide them because they were leading the session with teamwork, cooperation, and great humor.”

Dr. Shelby Pumphrey, the Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Pan African Studies would like to eve...
02/19/2026

Dr. Shelby Pumphrey, the Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Pan African Studies would like to everyone who attended our dual lecture, "They Told Us Healing Was Witchcraft: Religomedical Healing in the Africana Americas," presented by Iya Funlayo E. Wood, PhD!!! Thank you so very much Dr. Wood, for everything!!!

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