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SAVE THE DATE!
WGSS Graduate Conference
Friday, April 5th 2019
"Asking for a Friend (of Dorothy): What to Expect When You’re Expecting The End of
the World”
Keynote: Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Assistant Professor, English, St. John’s University
Call for Papers:
News and Announcements
Follow the WGSS Department:
We invite graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, and staff across the university
to read our statement below, and sign as a statement of solidarity and support, and
to elicit a response from the university administration.
Click here to add your name.
A statement of Solidarity with Trans People put together by the WGSS Graduate Students:
On Sunday, October 21, 2018 the
New York Times
published an article that indicated the current presidential administration is considering
a restrictive and reductive reading of Title IX that would collapse the nuanced complexities
of gender into a binary categorization of sex assigned at birth. This would severely
diminish the political rights of transgender, intersex, and non-binary individuals
in the United States and add to the ongoing structural violence these communities
face. The administration’s efforts are being led by the Department of Health and Human
Services, which has also called on the Departments of Education, Labor, and Justice
to adopt this narrow definition of gender in their enforcement of Title IX. We fear
that a likely outcome of such a maneuver would result in the invalidation of the legal
documents these communities rely upon to affirm their identities and maintain livable
conditions and personal safety.
As graduate students in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
Stony Brook University, we reject any and all transphobia and any efforts to limit
or curtail people living in a way that affirms their gender. We call upon faculty
and university administration to respond in kind. As emerging scholars of feminist
and queer theory, we understand that all oppression is interlinked and therefore we
also condemn any attempts to deprive justice and civil rights to Muslims, women in
general and specifically - black women, latina/x women and asian women, people of
color, queer people, people with disabilities, immigrants, undocumented migrants,
refugees, asylum seekers, indigenous peoples, the working poor, and religious/ethnic
minorities. We strongly advocate for establishing processes that acknowledge the intersectionality
of this moment and seek solidarity across these identities. The developing attempt
to legally define gender in a narrow, regressive manner will have serious implications
regarding how people interact with police, access healthcare, citizenship and visa
documentation, safety and mobility in public spaces, and more. This is further compounded
for people whose identities are multiply marginalized
We stand in strong support of trans people. We call on the university to allocate
its resources to ensure that the trans students and all students enrolled at Stony
Brook who find themselves targeted by the government are protected. Any such response
should include a timely and forceful condemnation of any and all transphobia, racism,
homophobia, and misogyny that our colleagues, students, faculty, and staff may be
exposed under such autocratic conditions. We seek to build solidarity across student,
faculty, and staff groups and
organizations by voicing collectively our unequivocal condemnation of the proposed
legal measures.
We demand that our university administration and faculty respond to this increasing
threat to the lives of the trans students in concrete ways. This should include an
actionable plan that will address the logistical questions and issues this threat
raises as it regards student confidentiality, campus safety, housing, student health
services, funding, research, scholarship, and employment.
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Academics
UNDERGRADUATE
The department offers a Bachelor of Arts, Minor, and Combined Undergraduate Degree
with a Master in Public Health (MPH).
GRADUATE
The department offers a PhD and MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well
as a Graduate Certificate.
PhD Program
MA Program
Graduate Certificate
