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WGS South
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WGS South is one of the oldest Women’s & Gender Studies associations in the U.S., serving AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, WV, & VA.
https://wgssouth.org/
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"Dreaming Beyond Survival: Radical Imagination and Futures of Liberation for Southern BIPOC Persons and Communities" Now that's a title! Our BIPOC Caucus invites you to tell us what dreaming beyond survival looks like! Join us in March for our 2026 conference, Feminist Futurities!
#academicsky #wgs
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November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Raise a glass to freedom!

Today, the Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

#lgbtq #gaymarriage #lovei̇slove #queerpride #lovewins🌈
Raspberry-colored background featuring a woman on her knee proposing to her same-sex partner. A rainbow runs behind them, with overlaying text that reads, "Obergefell Stands, Love Wins!"
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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CFP: The daily attacks on disabled lives we experience/witness are exhausting, yet we trudge on, collectively, dreaming and actively creating different futures for ourselves and for those we love.

Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025.
wgssouth.org/2026conference

#disability #accessibility #academicsky
Flyer is blue with the sketched outline of a playing card or tarot card border. The main image on the card is a hourglass with wings, and behind it, the disability rights flag of yellow, white, and orange. The text reads: "Feminist Futurities: WGS South 2026 Annual Conference. Disability caucus cfp: "the future is disabled." Wake Forest University, March 19-21, 2026.
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"

If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!

Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference

#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
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November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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We're proud to announce the CFP for our 50th Anniversary & 2026 conference: "Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South"

Check out the details on our website!
Submissions due Dec. 1st! wgssouth.org/2026conference

#AcademicSky #edusky #highered #wgs
Flyer is a very light pink with an outline of the Capitol Building behind a pale blue sketch of a young activist and the American flag. The text reads: We're proud to announce the CFP for our 50th Anniversary & 2026 conference: "Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South" WGS South 2026 Annual Conference, Wake Forest University, March 19-21, 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Much love and thanks to all the wonderful scholars, administrators, students, and community organizers and activists who made #wgssouth2025 a conference to remember!

#wgs #queerstudies #disabilitystudies #bipoc #womenshealth #lgbtq #translivesmatter #dei #highered #academicsky #edusky
March 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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#wgssouth2025 is just days away! And while we can't wait to share ideas and learn from all our participants and attendees, we also can't wait to dance to 50 years serving our #wgs community!

#southernstudies #womensstudies #intersectionality #lgbtq #bipoc #disabilitystudies #academicsky #edusky
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March 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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WGS South wants to help you find your people! For those of you attending our 50th annual meeting in Atlanta next week, please send us your flyers with QR codes linking to your preferred social media site!

#wgssouth2025 #academicsky #highered #womensstudies #disability #bipoc #queerstudies
This image is a flyer for WGS South participant social media networking. The text reads, "Find your people! Networking with WGS South. Changes to social media platforms that previously helped individuals and organizations establish and build community are no longer an option for many users. If this is you, we’d like to help you make new connections. This year WGS South is holding a networking event for conference participants to promote the work of their departments, organizations, and initiatives. Design a flyer with a QR code linking to your preferred social media site (if you need assistance, please let us know) Send your flyer to our Director of Communications & Marketing, Lydia Ferguson, at lfergu28@kennesaw.edu We’ll print the flyers and have them on hand for the networking event and throughout the conference!
March 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#wgssouth2025 is less than a week away! The full program will be on our website soon, but go ahead and mark your calendars for what's sure to be one helluva poetry reading!
#womensstudies #southernstudies #queerstudies #academicsky #poetry #disability #disabilitystudies #bipoc #blackstudies #resist
Image a rainbow of colors in the background with a faint script overlayed. At the bottom of the image are flames of yellow, pink, and violet. Also featured are headshots of the three headlining poets for the event: Sheila Smith McKoy, Jenne Sadre-Orafai, and Valerie Smith.
February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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WGS South is proud to announce we're now accepting applications for the 2025 Alison Piepmeier Outstanding Student Award!

Learn more at wgssouth.org/grants-awards

Deadline: March 17th.

#genderstudies #womensstudies #disabilitystudies #academicsky #edusky #wgs
Image has a yellow background with a black and white image of feminist disability studies scholar, Alison Piepmeier.
February 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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From #myneighborsarchive: motive magazine from 1969. Founded by the Methodist Student Movement, their "stands on civil rights, Vietnam, and emerging gender issues became more than the Methodist Church officials could take, [...] it ceased publication in 1972." sites.bu.edu/motive/

#wgs #history
Image is a once-white magazine cover with an image of a white woman with long hair. Beneath her is a flap that opens up, but which is closed in the image. To the right is the outline of a head with a brain in the middle, and to the right is an outline of a heart with a red heart in the middle. Same image as the previous magazine cover image, but this one features the flap open, to reveal an image of a much older woman. She is naked, gaunt, and holding her hand up to her chest. This abstract illustration is in black and white, and features multiple figures wearing or posing with the American flag in creatives ways (as a skirt, and draping a Statue of Liberty-esque drag figure.
February 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Calling all #activists #artists & #organizers in Atlanta & across the South! WGS South is celebrating our 50th annual meeting in Atlanta, March 6-8. To learn about sponsorship or registering for a vendor table to promote your work, visit wgssouth.org/sponsorship

#edusky #AcademicSky #communityorg
"Are you an organizer, artist, activist, or business owner working to protect and better the lives of women, queer, & minority communities? If so, consider becoming a conference sponsor and promoting your work at our 50th annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, March 6-8, 2025! To learn more, contact us at sewsaorg@gmail.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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When your conference keynote speaker is as accomplished as Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, there's nothing to be done but to include a second image listing just a fraction of her pioneering work(s)!

#AcademicSky #edusky #highered #womensstudies #blackwriters #skystorians #blackhistory #genderstudies
Image Descriptions: Image 1: Blue background with the image of a Black woman wearing glasses, her chin resting, but determined, on her hand. The text reads, "WGS South is proud to present our 2025 keynote speaker, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall." Below, there is an image of a megaphone and several of Dr. Guy-Sheftall's professional accomplishments. Image 2: This image features a list of select titles published by Dr. Guy-Sheftall over the course of her long career.
February 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A reminder from #myneighborsarchive that we have always had to fight. We cannot stop fighting.

On the day Newsweek published this cover highlighting Women's Rights, 46 women working for the mag sued for gender discrimination: www.newsweek.com/women-revolt...

#womensstudies #AcademicSky #history
Image is a Newsweek Magazine cover from March 23rd, 1970. The cover features a naked woman in red-tinged silhouette breaking through the symbol for the female sex. Black block letters against the bright yellow background read, "Women in Revolt."
January 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Planned Parenthood @ppfa.bsky.social provides medical treatment & care for millions, and for many of us they were our only source of healthcare for years. A sincere thank you to Cecile Richards and all the others before her who fought for public access to reproductive health

#WGS #bansoffourbodies
Image features activist Cecile Richards speaking at a podium wearing a shirt that reads, "Bans off our bodies!" The image includes a quote from her 2018 book: “Anytime you’re trying to change the way things are or challenge the powers that be, it’s going to be controversial [...] Often the work that’s most worthwhile seems the most stubborn and impossible. But just because someone else hasn’t figured it out yet doesn’t mean you can’t.” Bold text at the bottom reads, "Make Trouble!"
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This January 20th, celebrate a TRUE American Hero.

#martinlutherking #mlk #mlkday #skystorians #academicsky #edusky #civilrights #resist
Image features a black and white image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., accompanied by the following quote from "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963): "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
January 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Need some help with travel funds to attend our 2025 conference in Atlanta?

Apply for a student travel grant through our website: wgssouth.org/grants-awards

Applications are due January, 31st!

#AcademicSky #disability #accessibility #highered #edusky
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January 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Had quite a Christine de Pizan moment reading this text from #myneighborsarchive w/ a section on what "great men" have always thought about women. My personal favorites ?

"When a woman thinks...she thinks evil."

"Female executives are castrating bitches." 😂

#AcademicSky #Feminism #GenderStudies
January 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Our 2025 conference registration is now open! Scan the QR code or visit our website to register and learn more about the conference site and travel options.

wgssouth.org/conference-r...

Hope to see you in March!
#AcademicSky #EDUSky
Banner image features various activists of color and queerness. The text features the conference theme of "Legacies, 50 Years of Feminist Scholarship, Creative Activity, and Activism in the South, Atlanta/Decatur, Ga, March 6-8, 2025." The link to register through eventbrite is: https://tinyurl.com/3wm5zna3
January 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"I must have heard my first stories in my mother's womb."

Farewell to a gifted griot and fierce voice, Nikki Giovanni. Thank you for inspiring so many.
Image description: Black background featuring the smiling face of African American poet, writer, and feminist, Nikki Giovanni. The text is a quote from her book, Racism 101: "I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. There must always be griots...else how will we know who we are?” Rest in Power, Nikki Giovanni, 1943-2024.
December 10, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Time to get those conference proposals in! Celebrating 50 years of activity & activism in Atlanta? You won't want to miss it! wgssouth.org/annualconfer...

#AcademicSky #HigherED #EDUSky #LGBTQ #Disability #DisabilitySky #SouthernStudies #WGS #transrights #BookSky #skystorians #Blacksky #Historysky
Banner image features four figures of varying colors and queerness surrounded by broken chains and abstract phoenixes rising from flames at the bottom. The text reads, "Legacies: 50 Years of Feminist Scholarship, Creative Activity, and Activism in the South. Thursday, March 6-Saturday, March 8, 2025 in Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia. Deadline for Proposals is Dec. 10th.
December 6, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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"Trans and Queer Solidarity in Precarious Times"--a discussion that takes on even more meaning and weight than it did a month ago...

Get those presentation and panel proposals in by Dec. 10th and help shape this conversation.

#academicsky#education #wgs #southernstudies #phd
#queerstudies#lgbtq
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December 4, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Conference Logo Drop! Thanks to the incomparable @xtinapaintsatl for creating such badassery for us! Visit wgssouth.org to become a member & check out the cfps for our 50th Annual Conference!

Time to plan how we'll rise from the ashes, y'all. Abstracts due Dec. 10th! @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Logo image features a young feminine-presenting figure looking off into the distance. In their finger is a lighted match. In the background are broken chains and phoenix-like birds rising from the flames that engulf the figure. The text reads WGS South 50th Anniversary.
December 3, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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As we gear up for a holiday famous for gluttony and notoriously demanding of women’s time and labor, remember that it ain’t the fifties and frozen meals exist.

#myneighborsarchive #vintagecookbook #reclaimingmytime #genderstudies #womensstudies #feminism #wgs #ephemera #materialculture #archives
November 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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If you've not had to navigate disability, mobility, & accessibility issues, consider yourself fortunate. For many, the indifference and inaction toward disability concerns is a metaphorical (& sometimes literal) roadblock. Join us in Atlanta to share the stories of those who knocked them down.
Image features the rear view of a woman in a wheelchair holding a little girl's hand as they move forward together. They both have brown skin and black hair. The text announces the Disability Caucus's conference theme of "Crip Legacies" and a submission deadline of Dec. 10th, 2024. Submit at wgssouth.org
November 20, 2024 at 6:42 PM