Gender, Sex, and Power: Beyond White Suffrage

Humanities Center, University of Rochester

Teach-In

About

This teach-in demonstrated the vibrant research and teaching in LGBTQ+ and feminist studies on campus and challenged mainstream notions of how feminism is defined and who it serves. We aimed to broaden discussions linked to the centennial of the 19th amendment and bicentennial of Susan B. Anthony’s birth beyond voting, women, and Anthony herself, and to instead provoke questions about the state of our field and render explicit the ways feminist and queer theory are relevant in examining a wide range of concerns in our communities, scholarship, activism, and on our campus.

Presentations connected the long intellectual history of critical and empirical scholarship in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies to issues of pressing concern today—including LGBTQ+ rights, sexual justice, racial justice, settler colonialism and border walls, disability rights, climate change, increasing militarization of our country and our campuses, global gender equity, reproductive rights, labor movements, and wealth inequality.

This event had ASL interpretation and was free and open to the public.

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