Empowering Pathways: What is Possible with a WGS Major?

  • Marketing Assistant for National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • Lobbyist for the ACLU

  • Public Relations Associate for Girls Ink online magazine

  • Development Associate for non-profit organizations

  • Employee for International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

  • Screenwriter

  • Employee for American Bar Association, working on CEDAW issues (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

  • Lawyer

  • Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill

  • Analyst for Democratic polling and consulting firm

  • Fundraiser for domestic violence shelter

  • Communications Director for Greenpeace

  • Social worker

  • Director of Communications at United Way

  • Staff at a battered women's shelter

  • Affirmative Action Officer

  • Family counselor

  • Women's health coordinator

  • Clinical therapist

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WGS Reads

TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTOM NYTimes Op-ed writer, MacArthur “Genius” grant winner,
and author of Thick: And Other Essays, The First Annual WGS Reads selection Free books available!*

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 3:30-7:00pm Nau 101 Refreshments provided

WGS Reads is an annual spring event, in which the WGS community – faculty, students, majors and minors, and Friends of the department – read a selected book together, discuss it in and out of the classroom, and host the author for a book talk and reception.

Therí Pickens

 

Professor Pickens is a Professor of English, specializing in African American, Arab American and disability literatures and theories. She is the author of two books: New Body Politics (Routledge, 2014) and Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke 2019). You can find her public scholarship in Ms. Magazine, The Root, and Medium (@tpickens).

The Trans Care Lecture Series

 

Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC is the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, an award-winning book that was also a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards (Trans-Nonfiction). A therapist and sexuality educator, Fielding is a pathbreaking voice in gender-affirming care. Her work pushes beyond pathologizing diagnoses to focus on trans joy and the liberating potential of “gender-pleasure.”
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 7:00-9:00pm, Bryan Hall 229-230
 

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Event: 2020: Political and Social Legacies

Eric Klinenberg—Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences at New York University and contributor to magazines including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books—discusses his book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Change

Jennifer Nash: Picturing Loss