The Women's, Gender & Sexuality Program at Boston University

10/04/2022

See the upcoming talks by Heather White and Jasbir Puar!

07/04/2022

GLMA is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, q***r (LGBTQ) and all sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, and equality for LGBTQ/SGM health professionals in their work and learning environments. To achieve this mission, GLMA utilizes the scientific expertise of its diverse multidisciplinary membership to inform and drive advocacy, education, and research.

GLMA Transgender Health Resources

04/04/2022

Apply now! The deadline for the 2022 Sarah Joanne Davis Award is April 15, 2022.

01/04/2022

Hannah Gadsby, an Australian comedian, is the creator of “Nanette,” a stage show turned Netflix special that is lacerating in its fury about how women and q***r people like her, and anyone else who might behave or look “other,” get treated, dismissed and silenced. She is unflinching about the abuse that they — that she — endured, and the cultural norms that enabled it. She calls out men, powerful and otherwise.

Creating the furious stand-up special “Nanette” was an act of self-preservation for the Australian star. The result has been a sensation “beyond my comprehension.”

31/03/2022

March is Women's History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

March is Women's History Month – commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

31/03/2022

Poet and author Audre Lorde used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a Black le***an woman and later, as a mother and person suffering from cancer. A prominent member of the women’s and LGBTQ rights movements, her writings called attention to the multifaceted nature of identity and the ways in which people from different walks of life could grow stronger together.

Poet and author Audre Lorde used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a Black le***an woman and later, as a mother and person suffering from cancer.

31/03/2022

In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, le***an, mother, warrior, poet.” There were occasional variations. “I am a Black, le***an, mother, warrior, poet doing my work, coming to ask you if you’re doing yours,” she’d sometimes say. But there was always that garland of identifiers — and not just because she couldn’t be defined by one word. She wanted, as Angela Davis said, to “demystify the assumption that these terms cannot inhabit the same space: Black and le***an, le***an and mother, mother and warrior, warrior and poet.”

Lorde died in 1992, at 58. She left riches: poems, essays and two genre-defining memoirs, “Zami” and “The Cancer Journals.” Her work is an estuary, a point of confluence for all identities, all aspects kept so strenuously segregated: poetry and politics, feeling and analysis, analysis and action, sexuality and the intellect.

- Parul Sehgal, NYT
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/books/review-audre-lorde-selected-works.html

30/03/2022

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Her motto and title of her autobiography—Unbought and Unbossed—illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Debra Michaels, National Women's History Museum
Read more: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm

29/03/2022

Pauli Murray lived one of the most remarkable lives of the twentieth century. S/he was the first Black person to earn a JSD (Doctor of the Science of Law) degree from Yale Law School, a founder of the National Organization for Women and the first Black person perceived as a woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest.

Pauli Murray’s legal arguments and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution were winning strategies for public school desegregation, women’s rights in the workplace, and an extension of rights to LGBTQ+ people based on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Pauli Murray crafted a broad vision of justice, equity, and human rights using words as her primary tool in the fight for liberation. Their vision for a just and equitable world is a beacon of hope during troubled times. Their social justice tactics, legal strategies, speeches, letters, books, sermons, and poetry are models for our ongoing activism aimed at dismantling the oppression s/he faced and we continue to face because of white supremacy.

Read more: https://www.paulimurraycenter.com

29/03/2022

Check out the Boston General Store!

Boston General Store is a purveyor of high quality, well designed, long lasting home goods and home furnishings that are both functional and sustainable.

28/03/2022

Crystal Eastman was a labor lawyer, suffragist, socialist and journalist who authored model legislation and helped create political organizations that survived this century's turmoil. Born in Glenora, New York in 1881 to ordained ministers of the Congregational Church, Eastman went on to graduate from Vassar in 1903, receive a Master's in sociology from Columbia University and was second in the class of 1907 at New York University School of Law. - ACLU
Read more: https://www.aclu.org/other/crystal-eastman

27/03/2022

Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of N**i violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and trained in espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. She returned to Paris under an assumed identity immediately before the Germans mopped up the Allies’ largest communications network in France. For crucial months of the war, Noor was the only wireless operator there sending critical information to London, significantly aiding the success of the Allied landing on D-Day. Code-named Madeleine, she became a high-value target for the Gestapo. When she was eventually captured, Noor attempted two daring escapes before she was sent to Dachau and killed just months before the end of the war.
- Arthur J. Magida, "Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in N**i-Occupied Paris"