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Welcome!

Our first meeting of the Fall 2018 semester will be on Monday October 15th at 12:40pm in KCTL. This semester we are reading and discussing the book Feminist Pedagogy in Higher Education: Critical Theory and Practice
by Tracy Penny Light and Jane Nicholas. We look forward to engaging conversations about WGS at KCC and in Higher Ed more broadly.

 

SPRING 2016 – FIG Minutes (3/28, 4/19, 5/23)

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies FIG Minutes

Meeting Monday, March 28, 2016

12:40-1:40PM, M391

Reading: Kate Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook

Topic and Discussion: We discussed Kate Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook, focusing on chapters 1-4. We did some gender quizzes and shared ideas about how to teach gender and use the quizzes in our classes. We also debriefed about the Women’s and Gender Studies Across the Disciplines Faculty Roundtable for Women’s History Month.

Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies FIG Minutes

Meeting Tuesday, April 19, 2016

11:30-12:30PM, M391

Reading: Kate Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook

Topic and Discussion: We discussed Kate Bornstein’s My New Gender Workbook, focusing on chapters 5-7. We did some additional gender quizzes and reflected on what we learned from the whole book. We also worked on planning for Kate Bornstein’s performance on campus on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

Women’s Studies and Gender Studies FIG Minutes

Meeting Monday, May 23, 2016

1:50-2:50PM, M391

Topic: End of the Semester Celebration

We brought food and drink to share together to celebrate the end of a highly productive year in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies FIG. More importantly, we honored Susan Farrell’s work as co-director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Concentration. She stepped down, Alison Better and Amy Washburn joined Caterina Pierre as the new WGS co-directors, and we wanted to celebrate Susan Farrell’s legacy in that role.

First Meeting : Tuesday September 27th

This semester we will be reading The Feminist Utopia Project, edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff.

All are welcome. We look forward to exciting discussions.

October 8, 2015

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies FIG met on Thursday 10/8/15 at 12:40 in M357.  Approximately 10 people attended.  We began to discuss Rebecca Solnit’s book Men Explain Things to Me, relating the ideas in the books to events that have happened to us, in and out of the classroom.  We discussed gender, power, and being seen as an authority.