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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Sep 2

Interested in queer cabaret at Emory? Get involved with the Restoration Project!

The Restoration Project: Be the main character of your own story. This project is about devising an original cabaret, exploring the history of cabaret, and will take place Fall semester of 2025. This will be the first step towards creating a queer cabaret for Emory. Whether you sing, write, dance, act, or want to be part of something bold and beautiful, this is your invitation. This workshop will take place in person on Tuesdays at 5:30 PM- 6:45 PM, September 9th through November 11th in Rich Memorial Building, room 210. For information and questions, please email Philip.brankin@emory.edu. We're restoring something... Something bold. Something queer. Something yours.

Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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.

Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Jun 23

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 [email protected], with your name, department, rank or year, and theme for proposal.

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · May 16

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

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!

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · May 3

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · May 3

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · May 3

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Apr 30

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.”

Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 19

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.

Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 19

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 19

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚨 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.

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Mar 18

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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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 17

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! 🎉

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 17

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.

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 11

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!

Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 4

🎧 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?”

Hotel Bar Sessions podcast @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social · Feb 28

New episode just dropped and this week we're joined by Dr. Falguni Sheth! Don't miss this "unruly" conversation!

hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/epis...

Episode 173: Unruly Identity (with Falguni Sheth) - Hotel Bar Podcast

Raising a glass to the misfits, rebels, and rule-breakers!

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 4

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 [email protected].

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 4

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

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Mar 4

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

Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · Mar 4

Lesley McMillan’s article with Rose Corrigan, @ratnagiri77.bsky.social, Gethin Rees and Deborah White critically explores the use of sexual assault forensic medical examination as a means to assess complainant’s credibility. Access it first here buff.ly/AZAgcWd @emorywgss.bsky.social

Compliance and credibility: a critique of the sexual assault forensic examination from international perspectives

The forensic medical examination is often lauded as an effective intervention to reduce case attrition by providing evidence that supports a rape or sexual assault complaint. We show that, despite…

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Feb 20

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.

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Emory WGSS @emorywgss.bsky.social · Feb 20

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.

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