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Critical Menstruation Studies Workshop Series

The Crimson Wave - Jen Lewis

EWU Workshop Series: Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies All sessions will begin at 1 p.m. Pacific/4 p.m. Eastern (Note that Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. ends at 2:00 a.m., November 1, 2020). All readings are available online at Palgrave book site: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811506130. HCMS Seminar Series Flyer  

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Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies Releases 2019-2020 Annual Report

Students in conversation in the WAGE Center

Despite a year that ended in a virtual environment, the Women’s and Gender Studies Annual Report is filled with videos, images, and stories of our 2019-2020 academic year. Please click the image below to read the report. This is our last annual report from before we got our sexy new name. We are now Gender,

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Remembering RBG on the 27th Anniversary of her Supreme Court Appointment

October 2, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Signs and Flowers

On October 4, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Supreme Court. We’ve curated some resources to help you learn a bit more about her life and legacy. On this day in 1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Swearing In Ceremony (from CSPAN) (19 minutes) Short Watch: Notorious RBG: The Supreme Court Justice Turned

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Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research: Fall 2020

Audience at CIFR

The EWU Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies presents for Fall 2020 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research, featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Fall 2020 Flyer Refugee Community Partnership Model: a commitment to building community Tuesday, Oct. 20 Noon to 12:50 pm Virtual Attendance HERE via Zoom    

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Virtual Welcome Event

Welcome Event

Virtual Welcome Event Tuesday, Oct. 6 1:00 – 2:00 pm Virtual Attendance HERE via Zoom Please join the GWSS faculty and staff as we welcome our majors, minors, the Scary Feminists and Planned Parenthood Generation Action back to school. Although we are virtual this year, we can still actively build community. We hope to see you there!

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EWU Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies Program Announces New Name and Major

September 23, 2020

Processing - by Favianna Rodriguez

As part of Eastern Washington University’s commitment to address ever-changing regional, national and global environments, the university is thrilled to announce a new name and major for a popular interdisciplinary program that fosters activism, leadership and feminist analysis. The new program name and major – Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) – comes after an

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COVID, Structural Change, and EWU’s Future – Inlander Column

September 18, 2020

A young person makes a BLM poster for a car demonstration.

Judy Rohrer, PhD reminds us in an Inlander commentary, “There are no shortcuts to fundamental structural change, no shortcuts to ending oppressive systems, no shortcuts to holding life as precious.”

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English Faculty Publications 2019-2020

July 18, 2020

Path through the Cheney Campus

Reagan Henderson “Make me Care!: Creating Digital Narratives in the Composition Classroom” an essay in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies Christopher Howell  “The Persona Poem,” workshop given at Litfuse on September 29th The Grief of a Happy Life published by University of Washington Press Jonathan Johnson The Desk on the Sea published by Wayne State University Press

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Amaris Feland Ketcham

Amaris Ketcham

Amaris Feland Ketcham is an Associate Professor in the University of New Mexico’s Honors College. As a writer and artist, Amaris explores the combination of text, image, and place. She has written two poetry books, A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains and Glitches in the FBI; a camping guide to New Mexico, Best Tent Camping: New Mexico; and a graphic

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Chosen Companions of the Goblin: Kathryn Smith

June 22, 2020

Chosen companions feature

MFA alum, Kathryn Smith’s debut poetry collection, Chosen Companions of the Goblin, won the 2018 Open Country Chapbook Contest which was chosen by Heather Cahoon. The collection was published in 2019 by Open Country Press.            

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