Fall 2021
WGS 2100 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Matthew Chin
Empowering Pathways: What is Possible with a WGS Major?
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Marketing Assistant for National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Lobbyist for the ACLU
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Public Relations Associate for Girls Ink online magazine
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Development Associate for non-profit organizations
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Employee for International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
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Screenwriter
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Employee for American Bar Association, working on CEDAW issues (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
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Lawyer
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Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill
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Analyst for Democratic polling and consulting firm
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Fundraiser for domestic violence shelter
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Communications Director for Greenpeace
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Social worker
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Director of Communications at United Way
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Staff at a battered women's shelter
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Affirmative Action Officer
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Family counselor
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Women's health coordinator
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Clinical therapist
Find out more!
Summer 2021
Session I
WGS 3340 Transnational Feminism
Laura Ornee
J-Term 2021
WGS 3210 Gender, Sport and Film
Bonnie Hagerman
Scholarships for LGBTQ+ Students!
Over $100,000 in scholarships are available this semester from the Serpentine Society, UVA’s LGBTQ+ Alumni organization!
All applications are due by Sunday, March 14th, at 11:59 P.M. This webpage provides an overview of all three open scholarships, and summaries are below.
Old-Age Justice and Black Feminist History: Sojourner Truth’s and Harriet Tubman’s Intersectional Legacies
by Corinne T. Field
Recent Publications by Assistant Professor Matthew Chin
In collaboration with Caribbean International Resource Network, Matthew Chin coordinated the Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News (1977-1984)
In collaboration with Caribbean International Resource Network, Matthew Chin coordinated the Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News (1977-1984), the publication of the anglophone Caribbean's first self-proclaimed gay activist organization, the Gay Freedom Movement in Jamaica.
Racializing Emasculation: An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Men’s Evaluations of Sexual Assault
Please join us in celebrating Doug Meyer’s recent publication in the highly regarded journal Social Problems just this past October.
See below for the citation and link to the piece. Congratulations, Doug!
Doug Meyer. 2020. “Racializing Emasculation: An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Men’s Evaluations of Sexual Assault.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa053
WGS Department Remembers Lecturer Abigail S. Arnold
The WGS department is sorry to share that Abby Arnold, who was a lecturer at WGS, died recently after a long illness. The obituary from the Daily Progress is below:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyprogress/name/abigail-arnold-obituary?pid=197595805
Fall 2020
WGS 2100 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Bonnie Hagerman
SPRING 2021
WGS 2100 Intro to Gender & Sexuality Studies
Bonnie Hagerman
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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
