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The study of WGSS from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective! 🌈🍎 https://www.sacredheart.edu/majors--programs/womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies---minor/
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Do Good December - Day 1: Spread kindness and share the December calendar with others actionforhappiness.org/do-good-dece... #DoGoodDecember
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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On this day in 1832 Louisa May Alcott, author of 'Little Women', was born.

Outside of being a novelist, Alcott was a passionate support of abolishing slavery, women's suffrage and was a nurse during the American Civil War.

#OnThisDay #BookSky #LouisaMayAlcott #LittleWomen #America #Authors
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The Gender Disparity in Fitness: Caregiving Burden Undercuts Women’s Health

https://www.vitaminrush.com/273951/the-gender-disparity-in-fitness-caregiving-burden-undercuts-womens-health/

Studies Confirm Women Receive Less Exercise Than Men, Primarily Due to Disproportionate Unpaid Labor and …
The Gender Disparity in Fitness: Caregiving Burden Undercuts Women’s Health
Studies Confirm Women Receive Less Exercise Than Men, Primarily Due to Disproportionate Unpaid Labor and Social Norms That Prioritize Family Needs Over Personal Wellness. A persistent and consequential gender gap exists in physical activity, fueled by the unequal distribution of caregiving and household labor. A large recent study of 400,000 Americans found that only 33 percent of women met weekly recommendations for aerobic exercise, compared with 43 percent of men. This disparity, which is consistent across international demographics, has serious long-term implications for women’s health, who, despite living longer than men, spend a greater percentage of their lives suffering from
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November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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@signsjournal.org Call for papers on the poet/feminist.activist/teacher Genevieve Taggard for a special issue of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
drive.google.com/file/d/1inm0...
Women's Studies special issue draft.pdf
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November 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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A little history -- and a happy birthday -- to the AP's women's basketball poll, thanks to the @inquirer.com.
#WBB #basketball
The AP women’s basketball poll turns 50 today. Its story starts here, at The Inquirer
Mel Greenberg, then an Inquirer sportswriter, founded a poll that launched women's hoops into the national spotlight — and created a platform for the likes of UConn's Geno Auriemma.
share.inquirer.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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So proud of my honor’s class for making these cute little books this semester!
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Another record for women's soccer 📈

The 2025 NWSL Championship is the most-watched match in league history, and the first to pass 1 million viewers 📺

📸: GothamFC
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Meet the eight finalists for the 2025 Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. These researchers are leading breakthrough work across technology and science. Read more about their achievements and the award at: go.nature.com/3LW46tz #Academicsky
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all! 💜
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, my book!

As seen during the 2025 National Women's Studies Annual Conference: An Honour Song: Feminist Struggles, Feminist Victories

In San Juan, Puerto Rico🌸🌸
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Paulina Luisi (September 22, 1875 – July 17, 1950) was Uruguay’s first woman to earn a medical degree, a trailblazing physician, educator, and feminist whose work helped transform women’s rights and public health in Latin America

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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PEN America mourns the death of beloved author and disability activist Alice Wong. A brilliant writer, Alice used her voice and platform to amplify disability media & culture, whether through the Disability Visibility Project or editing the anthology Disability Visibility www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social me...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Yay!
November 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Come visit!
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Such a great talk today with writer and speaker Alex Myers!
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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This month's #ACAhashtagparty is #ArchivesWomensHistory!

These images depict the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC). From 1904 to the early 1990's, it was a organization of Canadian journalists that prior to 1971 was only open to women. In 1971 the group was renamed to The Media Club of Canada.
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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My campaign colleague Kate Murphy has written today about the plight of women's studies in light of the BBC Written Archives Centre's withdrawal from the world of independent study. The policy changes, in her view, are 'nothing short of catastrophic'. cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: recovering the invisible women of the BBC by Kate Murphy
My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…
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October 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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THIS
“Unlike previous generations of sports fans, boys like Brennan grow up rooting for the NBA and WNBA.”

“Women’s sports have become culturally cool in a way that I don’t think they have been historically,” said @rachelallison.bsky.social
an associate prof. who studies women’s sports and fan(s).
October 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Please join us for the next Regional Studies Women’s Network workshop! Participation is free, and we have online and in person (including free lunch!) options. A great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new faces ahead of the Winter Conference ☺️
On the 12th of November, the @regstud.bsky.social will host the RSA Women's Network Workshop. It will be a hybrid event, with topics covered including that of careers and CV's, academia in the #GlobalSouth, and grant application: For more and to register, see:
www.regionalstudies.org/events/rsa-w...
RSA Women's Network Events - RSA Main
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October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM