PSU Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

05/10/2022

WGSS Community Space Centering Reproductive Justice

How will the Supreme Court's decision affect us? Why should your fight for reproductive justice center Black, Indigenous, and people of color? Q***r and Trans people? What can we do about it?

Join PSU's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department for discussion, button-making, & more. Refreshments will be served.

Thursday, May 19th 11am-2pm in Parkmill 101 | Join us virtually by emailing [email protected].

05/05/2022

Join the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for a panel and Q&A on choosing a graduate program and navigating the application process. Many of our students go on to graduate programs in WGSS, Ethnic Studies, Social Work, Counseling, Law, Information and Library Sciences and more! This event is open to current students and alumni in WGSS and SGRN (Chicano Latino Studies, Black Studies, Indigenous Nations Studies), whether you are just starting to get curious about graduate programs or are already writing your personal statement.

Monday May 9th; 6pm-7:30pm viz zoom
Register at bit.ly/wgss-gradshl

Send any questions or ADA requests to [email protected]

04/19/2022

Community Healing Space
In memory of Amara Marluke
April 21st, 11am-2pm in Parkmill 137

Please join the School of Gender, Race, and Nations as we hold space for PSU students and community in memory of Amara Marluke.

Stop by and talk, craft, or just be - no expectations. Refreshments will be provided.

04/13/2022

Join us as we endeavor to reconnect and restore our WGSS community by making a gift to support our end of term celebrations!

Your support can help pay for speakers🎙, arts supplies🎨 or activities to come in spring, summer and fall term!

After a couple years of virtual community we can't wait to start some in-person functions, to share space, smiles, laughs and moments of community.

Gifts of any size can make a difference. Thank you for your support!


Follow this link to donate: http://psudayofgiving.org/wgss

03/28/2022

Join us for Trans Day of Visibility Gathering here in Parkmill! Located in the school of Gender, Race, and Nations (Parkmill Building) enter through 150 and head to 137! Enjoy crafting, coloring, button making, poster printing and beyond! Collaborating with Black and Pink to offer pen-pal matching and birthday card writing to support incarcerated LGBTQ folks.

*Refreshments will be provided 😄*

03/28/2022

We still have room in these classes for for Spring 2022! 📓✒️

02/10/2022

🌿✒️Just a taste of what's being offered this coming spring! See you in class - IRL or in the virtuals! 📝📚

02/10/2022

✨Scholarship applications due March 1, 2022! Make sure to submit an application and get some financial support! 💸💸Apply at www.pdx.edu/scholarships.

12/09/2021

11/09/2021

We got awesome courses running next winter, check out some of them down below! (^_^)✨

11/05/2021

Join next week Wednesday November 10th 4pm at our WGSS Mask Decorating Party!
We'll be holding the party in person in PKM 150 and you'll be able to join online via zoom too, please email [email protected] to receive zoom link.

Supplies and masks will be supplied for our in-person attendees. We'll also have a Mask Fashion show where both zoom attendees and in-person folks can show, walk, and model their glam-bam masks 😁

RSVP and questions to [email protected].

11/05/2021

Join us December 8th!

The School of Gender, Race & Nations is proud to host a new monthly speaker series centered on the scholarship, teaching and community engagement work being conducted across our units.

Our inaugural event will be Wednesday, December 8th, 2021, from 12:00-1:00PM, with an informal reception to follow. One of our new SGRN Cluster Hire faculty members, Professor Molly Benitez, will present Metabolize Hate or Die of it: Lorde, Labor, and Critical Affect Theory.

This series will be offered in a hybrid model, with in-person presentations hosted in Parkmill 101 while simultaneously streamed as a zoom webinar. You can register for the event by visiting bit.ly/sgrn-webinar.

Metabolize Hate or Die of it: Lorde, Labor and Critical Affect Theory

Critical affect theory encourages an alternative genealogy of affect theory traced through women of color feminisms. In line with Q***r of Color Critique, a critical affect theory centers the body—historically situated and materially conditioned—when theorizing affects. This talk utilizes Audre Lorde’s concept of metabolizing hate and her theorization of bodies, affects, and labor to analyze what I call ‘the affects of labor’—the stress, trauma, and emotions experienced through the work one does and how these ‘affects of labor’ produce and reproduce workers.

About Dr. Molly Benitez

Molly’s academic work is founded on Black Feminist Ideologies and Q***r of Color Critique and is dedicated to anti-racist and decolonial teaching and learning. Molly’s dissertation, Becoming Your Labor: Identity Production and the ‘Affects of Labor’, weaves together these foundations along with critical affect theory to analyze the ‘affects of labor’ – the visceral and active consequences of our working environments that metabolize through our bodies and produce our identities, relationships, and communities.

As an organizer, Molly centers their power building and community convening praxis on abolitionist and transformational justice frameworks. Their organizing is us/for us, in the places and within the communities they call home. Molly believes in the transformative power of storytelling, radical listening, vulnerability, imagination, and love, and that community and relationship building are necessary for systemic change.