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@LANOUVELLESEXE/INSTAGRAM | Maggie Cullina (COL ’22)

WGST Student Launches Sex-Positive Educational Instagram Account

By Grace Buono September 25, 2020

Seeing an opportunity to educate and improve the lives of their classmates in college, Maggie Cullina (COL ’22) launched their own sex education Instagram account to guide college students and young...

SUBUL MALIK/THE HOYA | After dropping out from the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary, Senator Gillibrand expressed optimism over lessons she learned while campaigning.

Prioritize Gender Equality in Politics, Gillibrand Says

By Ella Hetfield November 1, 2019

Former presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) emphasized the importance of diversifying political leaders and supporting legislation to ensure equality at an event in the Reiss Science...

VIEWPOINT: Recognize LGBTQ History

VIEWPOINT: Recognize LGBTQ History

By Siena Hohne October 18, 2019

On the morning of Oct. 11, you might have seen my fellow Georgetown University Pride board members and deputies chalking up Red Square as we giggled and wiped chalk off our purple “I Am” shirts, which...

FILE PHOTO: JULIA ALVEY/THE HOYA | Georgetown College Dean Chris Celenza proposed that the university hire a new womens and gender studies director who has experience working in a WGST department at another school as part of the discussions surrounding the push for a WGST department.

WGST Activists Meet With Dean After 17-Month Push

By Amy Li and Connor Thomas March 29, 2019

Students and faculty met with Georgetown College Dean Chris Celenza to discuss considerations associated with expanding the women’s and gender studies program into a department March 21. The meeting...

GU STUDENTS FOR A FULL WGST DEPARTMENT/ FACEBOOK | Students are continuing to urge Georgetown College to expand the resources of the womens and gender studies program.

Students Push GU to Respond to WGST Department Proposal

By Amy Li March 11, 2019

Students advocated for the women’s and gender studies program to gain departmental status in a letter delivered to Georgetown College Dean Chris Celenza on March 1. The letter, which garnered over...

MASON: An Education That Provokes

By Annie Mason March 28, 2018

Outing myself as a women’s and gender studies major used to be harder than outing myself as a lesbian. I used to mention it quietly after announcing my government major, so white, middle-aged men I introduced...

BLAIR: Demanding More Than the Minimum

By Kimberly Blair March 26, 2018

I did not hear of Georgetown University’s women’s and gender studies program until I was well into my freshman year in 2012. That day, I had stepped away from my study cave on the fifth floor of...

SIZEMORE-BARBER: Driving Visionary Feminism

By April Sizemore-Barber March 22, 2018

On March 15, the women’s and gender studies program commemorated its 30th anniversary with a conference celebrating gender scholarship. Panelists and audience members alike discussed the paradoxical...

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Georgetown College will consider giving department status to the womens and gender studies program.

Students Submit Proposal for Women’s and Gender Studies Department

By Katrina Schmidt October 13, 2017

A proposal advocating that the women’s and gender studies program gain department status by fall 2018 was submitted Tuesday by students hoping to expand the program’s resources. The student-led...

VIEWPOINT: The Dilemma of the Underpaid Adjunct

By Bonnie Morris May 1, 2017

With love and regret, I am saying farewell to Georgetown after 21 wonderful years on the faculty of the women’s and gender studies program and a recent, shiny Silver Vicennial Medal for my two decades...

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