2018 WGS Essay Contest Winners Have Been Announced
WGS Announces Winners of 2018 Essay Contests
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AWARD WINNER (undergraduate)
Zoe Pettler - Acquitting the U-Haul: Temporality and Intimacy in Lesbian Relationships
ZORA NEALE HURSTON AWARD WINNER (graduate)
Lauren Haumesser - "Domestic Institutions”: Gendered Language and the Debates over Territorial Slavery
CONGRATULATIONS to our winners!
October 26, 2018
Feeling pain and fear in the marrow of my fingers, I wonder what was so dangerous, so menacing about a journalist whose only weapons were his words. Why were Jamal Khashoggi’s pen-wielding fingers chopped off before he was allegedly strapped to a desk and dismembered?
October 23, 2018
Transgender characters on television shows, in movies and in other mainstream media have never been more prevalent. But how do people in the transgender community feel about these characters, who are attempting to portray them?
September 26, 2018
WGS Professor Andre Cavalcante has a newly published article in a special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality on queer media cultures.
May 11, 2018
The Women, Gender & Sexuality Department announces the award winners for best undergraduate and graduate essays focused on women, gender and/or sexuality.
March 22, 2018
Learn more about the courses being offered for the three summer sessions.
March 8, 2018
We are pleased to announce that UVA has been named the best college for LGBTQ+ students in Virginia!
October 23, 2017
Taylor Lamb had just decided to postpone a panel of LGBT speakers of color when a call went out for proposals for funding from the University of Virginia. A small grant, Lamb thought, would help her sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, try to hold the event again.
September 15, 2017
Alumna Spotlight: Annie Forrest
July 5, 2017
LOOKING FOR A GREAT WGS CLASS FOR FALL?
New additions to WGS course offerings for Fall:
WGS 3559 Queer European History
August 18, 2016
We have opened up a new section of Intro to Women, Gender & Sexuality that meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:30-4:45PM. WGS 2100-004 with Abigail Arnold.
July 19, 2016
We have moved from Minor Hall to Levering Hall. Please come visit us and check out the new space.
June 1, 2016
Women, Gender & Sexuality announces the award winners for best undergraduate and graduate essays focused on women, gender and/or sexuality.
January 19, 2016
Congratulations to WGS faculty member Doug Meyer, whose book, Violence Against Queer People has been selected by the American Library Association as a 2016 Stonewall Honor Book!
October 20, 2015
Instructors and students from both the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program of the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania will be collaborating at the 2015 National Women’s Stud
September 24, 2015
Earlier this month we hosted a screening of The Mask You Live In a film by the creators of the Miss Representation Pro
August 20, 2015
The Women, Gender & Sexuality Program has added two concentrations to the WGS major and minor, one in Gender Studies and another in Sexuality Studies.
May 29, 2015
New Course in WGS: Queer American History
April 8, 2015
March 16, 2015
UCLA School of Law Professor Cheryl Harris visited UVA as a guest of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Program to present a lecture entitled “Race Declassified: Post-Racial Diversions.” Speaking to
March 16, 2015
Over 60 students, along with community and faculty, attended the lecture.
November 24, 2014
To the Members of the University Community,
November 18, 2014
Women, Gender & Sexuality undergraduate, Laura Widener, is being honored by the V. Shamim Sisson Ally of the Year Award which seeks to recognize a member of the U.Va.
September 23, 2014
Are you wondering what’s new at the interdisciplinary WGS Program at UVA?
May 10, 2013
Women, Gender & Sexuality announces the award winners for best undergraduate and graduate essays focused on women, gender and/or sexuality.