News and Announcements

MWGS PhD grad appointed associate curator at The Huntington

3/23/23

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens announced the appointment of Lauren Cross as the new Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts. Cross is a curator, interdisciplinary artist and critical scholar whose research has focused on American decorative arts and material culture with a special emphasis on African American traditions.

New issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom published

12/13/22

The Fall 2022 issue of Films for the Feminist Classroom is now available online. This issue continues the journal’s exploration of online and virtual spaces in pedagogical practices.

Keating publishes The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook

2/8/23

In The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook, TWU faculty member AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa.

By investigating those dimensions of Anzaldúa’s theories, writings, and methods that have received less critical attention and by exploring the interconnections between these overlooked concepts and her better-known theories, Keating opens additional areas of investigation into Anzaldúa’s work and models new ways to do Anzaldúan theory. This book also includes extensive definitions, genealogies, and explorations of eighteen key Anzaldúan theories as well as an annotated bibliography of hundreds of Anzaldúa’s unpublished manuscripts.

Beins publishes "Field Materialities: Building Women’s and Gender Studies One Page at a Time"

10/12/22

As part of the special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, Agatha Beins's article maps the field’s early years through the Women's Studies Newsletter. This periodical shows the range of creative, practical strategies educators, administrators, and students used to find space for a feminist education within a hostile institution. This article explores the value of a publication like the newsletter and argue for its reincarnation in a twenty-first-century form by drawing on my experience as a WGS faculty member. Such a resource could offer practical tools for the quotidian, material field-building practices necessary to sustain and expand WGS, as well as for resisting the neoliberal status quo in higher education.

TWU alumna spices her cuisine with social justice

9/20/22

TWU alumna Sharina Hassell, chef at Alexandre’s in Oak Lawn, has debuted the Chick-full-gay, a tongue-in-cheek homage to the sandwiches at a certain fast-food chain. The new fried chicken sandwich, with two pickles and a smear of mayo on both buns, is set to become a regular special on the menu.

“It was our idea on how to reclaim something for our community,” Hassell said. Alexandre’s sold the Chick-full-gay sandwiches, each packaged in a bag with a rainbow sticker, to Pride parade marchers.