KQED feature of an SFO art exhibit, with mention of Professor Courtney Morris' participation in BlackW(hole).Art, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Combahee River Collective Statement in 2027.
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May 28, 2026
May 27, 2026
GWS Professor Elora Shehabuddin is featured in L&S News: Meet the Berkeley professors shaping global conversations on the Middle East and South Asia
May 26, 2026
GWS Professor Mel Chen is an honoree of the 2026 Celebrating Bay Area AAPI LGBTQ+ Women Leaders & Allies, which will be presented by the San Francisco Bay Times at the SF LGBT Center on May 28, 2026.
April 15, 2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize!
Nevada Coy with Maddie Canada and Zara Brandt
Nevada Coy is a Gender & Women’s Studies and Anthropology double major in UC Berkeley’s Class of 2027. Their work centers on community-engaged archaeology, historical memory, and intergenerational knowledge transfer. Since freshman year, Nevada has collaborated with Diné community members of the Navajo Nation and Japanese American descendants connected to the Old Leupp Indian Boarding School and Citizen Isolation Center.
March 30, 2026
Professor Eric Stanley is a 2025-2026 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity.
February 22, 2026
Summer 2026 Course Offerings in Gender and Women's Studies:
GWS 10 - INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN’S STUDIES, CN 12917, in person, session D
February 21, 2026
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Book Review by Dennis Ekwemnachukwu Okeke in Cultural Studies of Paola Bacchetta's book Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances. Okeke draws connections between the theory and African struggles.
December 15, 2025
Congratulations to Eric A. Stanley, awardee of the 2025 Andy Warhol Foundation Writers Grant for "The Aesthetic Underground: Visual Insurgency in the Long 1970s".
November 12, 2025
L&S News Story on graduate student and Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality alum, Ben Papadopoulos.
September 24, 2025
Fatema Mernissi for Our Times
Syracuse University Press (March 2025)
Edited by Minoo Moallem and Paola Bacchetta
September 2, 2025
Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence
by Patrice D. Douglass
Forthcoming in January 2026
Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances
by Paola Bacchetta