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WGST Magazine 2020-2021
Check out the annual WGST Magazine where were honor our graduates and award winners, and celebrate our accomplishments from 2020-2021!
Watch Now: 2021 Wise Woman Pedagogy Workshop
Did you miss the 2021 Wise Woman Pedagogy Workshop: Intersectionality, Diversity Work, and Feminist Pedagogy with Wise Woman Award Winners Dr. Stacie McCormick (2020) and Dr. Rima Abunasser (2017)? You can now watch the Zoom recording of the full event! Just click here.
When Drag is Activism
By Fred Trevino Throughout history, there has been a multitude of activism coming from the LGBTQIA+ community, and drag has always played an important part in that activism. When most people think of the activism that comes from the community the most notable event is Stonewall. Stonewall was a reaction to police raids in Greenwich… Read more »
Watch Now: 2020-2021 Claudia V. Camp Faculty Research Lecture with Dr. Lauren Mitchell
Did you miss the Claudia V. Camp Faculty Research Award Lecture from the 2020-2021 winner, Dr. Lauren Mitchell? You can now watch Dr. Mitchell’s talk, “Alienating Aesthetics: Performance Art and the Medical Imagination,” by clicking here!
WGST Visiting Lecturer Position
The Department of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University invites applications for a Lecturer position (nine-month position, non-tenure-track) for the academic year 2021-2022. The successful candidate will teach four courses per semester in the core WGST curriculum and must incorporate interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives. The ideal candidate will be able to teach threshold… Read more »
What is Critical Drag?
By Fred Trevino In this semester’s WGST class, the Queer Art of Drag, Dr. Nino Testa has assigned multiple readings that show students how drag critically engages with and resists restrictive societal norms. From readings such as Alana Kumbier’s “One Body, Some Genders: Drag Performances and Technologies” and Jack Halberstam’s “Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race,… Read more »
WGST Statement Regarding Recent Acts of Violence Against Asian American Women
WGST stands with the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Island community to condemn white supremacy and patriarchal violence. This kind of violence is not new, but last week was a painful reminder of how the racial and gendered position of Asian women in the United States make them particularly vulnerable to these acts. In the… Read more »
Reading is Fundamental: New WGST Course Prepares Students to Perform in the Spectrum Drag Show
By Fred Trevino When you hear the word drag, what do you think of? Do you think of RuPaul’s Drag Race like most people? Or do you think of your local drag show at places like Urban Cowboy in Fort Worth and S4 in Dallas? At TCU, we might think first of our own drag… Read more »
Trans in Trumpland: Texas
Wednesday, March 24 5:00 PM Zoom Link: https://tcu.zoom.us/j/98896095699 Please join the Department of Women and Gender Studies as we host a virtual screening of Trans in Trumpland: Texas followed by a Q&A with director Tony Zosherafatain. Trans in Trumpland investigates the impact of anti-trans policies on the lives of four transgender Americans. Told through a… Read more »