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Follow the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Facebook or Instagram for event postings. Virtual events will be held in Microsoft Teams, which is available for use in your web browser or can be downloaded as an app here. Past department events can be viewed on out Past Events page.

Disability Accommodations: If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in a Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies event, please contact 813-974-0982 at least five (5) working days prior to the event.

Talk & Toast: Celebrating Graduating WGSS MA Students

April 25, 1-3pm
CMC 202T

Research presentations by:

  • Faelyn Cowan: “In case I make it: An Autoethnographic Argument for Care, Space, and Utopia”
  • LJ Connolly: “Breaking Binaries: Gender Non-Conforming Lesbians and the Undercurrent of Biopower on Dating Apps”
  • Lee Davis: “Exploring the Implications of Identity in Media”
  • Emily Hernandez: “Dancin' in the Dark: Exploring Queer Joy and Belonging in Trinidad and Tobago's SOTU Nights Rave”
  • Megs Peterson: “Personal Perspectives of Political Action: A Case Study of How Women Discuss the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for School Children Program”
  • Charles Suor: “Angst, Transgression, and Care: Transgender Community in the DIY Rock Scene of Tampa, Florida”

Also celebrating the graduation of:

  • Natasha Joseph: “In Her Words: Megan Thee Stallion and the Multidimensionality of the Black Femcee”

14th Annual WGSS Research Colloquium: Poster Session

April 30, 5-7:30pm
Hybrid: CMC202T and Teams

Our 15 student researchers have prepared a PowerPoint for our online guests, and research Posters for our in-person guests. Please join us to learn about these amazing projects:

Set 1: Incorporating Visuals and Music into Research 

  • Kirsten Lee, PhD Student, Social Psychology, “Death and Disidentificatory Art “
  • Elizabeth Zacharias, MPH student, College of Public Health, “Parenthood in Practice"
  • Rachael Ermacora, MA student, WGSS, “The Story of Me, The Story of Us”
  • Caitlyn Seibert, MA student, History, “’Prettiness at a Premium"
  • Glorya Blair Senart, MA student, History, “’She was a match for a thousand warriors"

Set 2: Querying Reproduction and the Maternal 

  • Khaila Prather, PhD student, College of Public Health, “In Their Hands”
  • Olamide Awoyemi, MA student, Anthropology, “Tweeting for Reproductive Justice”
  • Sarmin Akther, PhD student, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, "South Asian migrant women’s experience of maternal health services "
  • Mavis Freeman Essel, PhD student, Communication, “Deconstructing the 'Bad Mother' Narrative”
  • James Robbins, PhD student, Anthropology, “Language Access and the Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Latina/o/e/x/Hispanic Individuals Seeking Abortion Care”

Set 3: Researching From Marginalization to Change 

  • Jewel Okraku Mantey, PhD student, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, “The Feminization of Poverty in Africa”
  • Aleidys Lopez Romero, M.A. student, WGSS, “Reviewing Domestic Violence Injunctions”
  • Eve Pyatovskaya, PhD student, Communication, “Stories from the fault line”
  • Abby Blackadar, MA student, WGSS, "Asexual Communities "
  • Roopam Mishra, PhD student, Communication, “Women Domestic Workers and their Sense-Making of Health”

To attend via Teams, email us for the meeting link.

50th Anniversary of WGS

The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.