Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
This timely virtual event brings together leading voices in activism, strategy, and scholarship to address the urgent issue of online violence targeting Black women
Join David Eng for a lecture drawn from his co-authored book with Shinhee Han, A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia and Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans.
Celebrate the launch of Opinions, a new anthology by acclaimed author and Rutgers professor Dr. Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies. This collection brings together a decade of her most compelling nonfiction.
Join us for a book talk and discussion on Space-Time Colonialism, exploring the entangled histories of Indigenous and Asian communities in Alaska through the lens of settler colonialism and Cold War geopolitics.
This event explores the practice of Black feminism in public spaces—its challenges, its impact, and its radical possibilities.
Join us in welcoming new colleagues and celebrating the vibrant WGSS community at Rutgers. This festive lunch offers a chance to reconnect, meet incoming students and faculty, and kick off the semester together.
This informal lunch offers a chance to connect, share insights, and welcome new graduate students into the WGSS community.
As of 4/24, this event has been postponed to a later date.
This virtual event brings together scholars to discuss the book’s critical insights into the intersections of sexuality, religion, and state power in Lebanon.
The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies invites graduating seniors and their guests to a joyful send-off honoring the Class of 2019.
This full-day conference explored embodied politics, queer theory, decolonial feminisms, and state surveillance through panels, performances, and keynote dialogue.
Join us for the launch of The Right to Maim: Debility / Capacity / Disability by Prof. Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), a groundbreaking work interrogating biopolitics, state violence, and disability through transnational frameworks.
Join Professor Brittney Cooper (Rutgers University) for a lecture on her groundbreaking book Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women.
The event includes a dialogue with Professor David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania), author of The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World.
The event explores how scientific discourse shaped racial and sexual hierarchies in the 19th century.
This interdisciplinary series brought together scholars whose work reimagines race, gender, sexuality, and embodiment through critical textual engagement.
Join Professor Deborah Vargas for a lecture exploring the sonic and affective dimensions of racialized gender and sexuality through music.
As part of the Rutgers–Paris VIII exchange program, feminist theorist Anne Emmanuelle Berger delivered a series of thought-provoking lectures exploring psychoanalysis, translation, and poetic theory through a gendered lens.
