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The Case for 'Slow Teaching' Read Dr. Scully's new article by checking the link in our bio. Black background, light text, portrait photograph of Dr. Pamela Scully.

Check out Dr. Scully's latest article here: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

SIS Call for Summer Proposals!
For faculty & graduate students working in areas related to race, sexuality, and gender! Proposal deadline is June 30, 2025. Please send proposals to fsheth@emory.edu, with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.

This is a graphic that uses Emory blues and yellows to convey a request to fill out an alumni survey. Calling all (Emory) WGSS alumni! Please take our alumni survey at https://bit.ly/WGSSALUMNI regardless of when you graduated, we want to hear from you!

Calling all Emory WGSS alumni! Please take our alumni survey at bit.ly/WGSSALUMNI

Photo 2 - Undergraduate Student Essay
Winner (left side): Iris Wu, WGSS and Quantitaive Sciences
Commended Essay (right side): Ariella Shulman, Philosophy

Photo 1 - Graduate Student Essay
Winner (left side): Sana Noon, MESAS
Commended Essays (top and bottom right respectively): Josh Howard, Graduate Division of Religion and Mariana Rodrígues-Espinoza, Spanish and Portuguese

🥁Drumroll please!🥁
We are proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Studies in Sexualities Essay Contest!

Check out this new piece by Dr Kadji Amin for The Law and Political Economy Project, titled “How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State.”

Join Dr Falguni Sheth and Mansi Hitesh for another installment of the Feminist Theories of Race reading group! This session takes place on Thursday April 3rd at 4:30 in Candler Library LIBC125. Use the QR codes to RSVP and access the reading, on the topic of the phenomenology of race/gender.

Full house for John Cameron Mitchell’s lunchtime masterclass today!

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5pm on March 27/ Oxford Road presentation room: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: The Story of a Proto-Trans, Pre-Punk, Nazi-Fighting Surrealist Couple lecture.

1pm on March 27/ White Hall 208: Cancellation Island: A Leftist Critique of Artistic Correctness masterclass. Sign up through the QR code!

Let the countdown begin! We are about one week away from @johncameronmitchell ‘s visit to Emory.

5pm on March 25/ White Hall 208: film screening

Congratulations to WGSS undergraduate student, Soju Hokari, for being named one of the 100 Senior Honorary members of the Emory University Class of 2025!

This honor goes to students who embody excellence in leadership, scholarship, mentorship and other important contributions to the Emory community

🚨 INCREASED AWARD AMOUNTS 🚨

Emory University’s Studies in Sexualities Program seeks submissions for its 2025 Student Essay Prize.

All current Emory students may submit to the contest. The prizes for best undergraduate and graduate essay have been increased to $500! Due Friday, March 21.

Volume Two of Intarsia is here!

Check out three amazing essays (edited by the journal's undergraduate editorial board: Olivia Gilbert, Gabriella Shapcott, Emilio Rosas Gutierrez, Stella Fox, Elle Deppe, Jade Wu, Elizabeth Brubaker, Nava Klopper).

www.intarsiajournal.org

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Congratulations to Emory WGSS Associate Professor, Dr Sameena Mulla, for receiving an NEH fellowship, alongside Dr Christina Crawford of the Art History department.
We are so proud of Dr Mulla! 🎉

We'd love to see you at the launch of Volume Two of Intarsia: 6pm Candler Library 125, Tuesday March 18.

Intarsia is a peer-reviewed and open-access journal of undergraduate scholarship that addresses feminism, sexuality, sex, and gender from queer and feminist theoretical perspectives.

Workshop opportunity: Join Dr. Huffer, a longtime collage enthusiast who has incorporated visuality and fragmentation into her philosophical writing. You are encouraged to bring a fragment of academic text, or of a current writing project, that you want to transform. No prior experience is needed!

🎧 Falguni Sheth’s recent appearance on Hotel Bar Sessions! “what does it mean to be recognized, or misrecognized, by the state? How do institutions decide which identities ‘fit’ and which ones have to be managed, disciplined, or erased? When does refusing to conform become its own form of power?”

Emory University's Studies in Sexualities Program seeks submissions for its 2025 Student Essay Prize!

All current Emory University students may submit to the contest.

250-word abstract to Falguni Sheth by Friday, March 21, 2025 at falguni.sheth@emory.edu.

Volume 2, Edition 1 of the our undergraduate departments journal Intarsia coming March 18th, 2025. 📌🧟‍♂️📍

Check out this article co-written by our very own Sameena Mulla.

His undergraduate masterclass "Cancellation Island: A Leftist Critique of Artistic Correctness" can be registered for using the QR code. The public lecture "Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: The Story of a Proto-Trans, Pre-Punk, Nazi-Fighting Surrealist Couple" is at 5pm.

John Cameron Mitchell will visit Emory on March 27 for a masterclass and public lecture! Mitchell is known most widely as the writer and director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and is of considerable influence in queer/trans film and performance.

Use the QR codes provided below to register for John Cameron Mitchell’s masterclass and lecture March 27th!

Blue Flyer with a QR code to RSVP in the bottom left corner. A WGSS Reading Group. Feminist Theories of Race, facilitated by Dr Falguni Sheth and Mansi Hitesh. All welcome to a reading group dedicated to exploring feminist theorizations of race and racialization. 20 February 2025. 4-5:30pm. Candler library LIBC222A (Classics Seminar Room) please email Mansi Hitesh at Mansi.hitesh@emory.edu with any questions. The reading will be email to you after registration!

Join Dr Falguni Sheth and Mansi Hitesh for the “Feminist Theories of Race” reading group.

We will be discussing a draft that Dr. Sheth is currently writing on the “Politics of Dismissal, Strategic (Mis)Recognition, and Decolonial Resistance.” RSVP with the QR code.