Researching Gender and Sexuality Studies
Local Events Calendars
There are a number of colleges and universities in the Puget Sound area that host lectures and events focused on gender and sexuality studies. Check out the links below to see various event calendars!
- University of Washington GWSS Events CalendarCalendar of events hosted by the Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
- Seattle University WGSS Events CalendarCalendar of events hosted by the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Seattle University.
Understanding Supplemental Resources
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Featured Videos
Below is a list of video interviews, lectures, and readings by some preeminent scholars in the field of gender and sexuality studies.
Roxane Gay, Feminism and Difficult Women
bell hooks and Gloria Steinem in Conversation at Eugene Lang College
Trans*—Beyond a Politics of Recognition, Jack Halberstam
Transgender Histories: From Sickness to Citizenship? Susan Stryker
Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Featured Podcasts
Below are podcasts that focus on queer theory, queer history, and other aspects related to gender and sexuality studies. Many of these podcasts are available on multiple platforms.
- Making Gay History
A podcast bringing the voices of LGBTQ history to life through intimate conversations with champions, heroes, and witnesses to history. - Queer As Fact: A Queer History Podcast
Queer as Fact is a podcast run by four Melbourne-based queer people with a background in history and a passion for sharing queer stories. They explore topics and figures from around the world, and examine their place in the wider context of queer history. - Nancy
Stories and conversations about the queer experience today. Prepare to laugh and cry and laugh again. - The Heart
The Heart is an audio art project about intimacy and humanity. Founded in Kaitlin Prest’s bedroom in 2014, The Heart is comprised of a community of writers, radio-makers and artists who make personal documentary work about bodies, love, power dynamics, and all of the invisible things in the air between humans. - Gender Jawn
Gender Jawn is a podcast about the politics, practices, performances, and pedagogies of gender and sexuality, sponsored by the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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