WGSS Department

What kind of racial reckoning is this? Black LGBTQ Practices of Care amid Spatial Marginalization The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and magnified the deep social inequalities, health disparities, and spatial marginalization that disproportionately impact Black q***r communities. For example, Black LGBTQ people disproportionately experience homelessness and housing instability due to convergent a...

Congratulations to the Class of 2021!

Join WGSS for a discussion with organizers and practitioners in the fields of reproductive justice and prison abolition to learn about the connections between racial and sexual violence, transphobia, and the prison-industrial complex. Speakers will address how barriers to health services and economic resources are shaped by white supremacy, settler colonialism, transphobia, and sexism, and how collectives and individuals are organizing against mass incarceration. Topics include gender self-determination, the disproportionate impact of mass incarceration on Black, brown, and indigenous populations, alternatives to policing, sexual assault survivors and the law, and collective access to reproductive resources. Q&A to follow panelist presentations.