Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota

Recent Speakers

David Zirin; named UTNE Reader's 50 Visionaries Who are Changing our World. He writes about politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is also host of Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. Zirin has been called the "best sportwriter in the United States." In addition, he is a columnist for SLAM Magazine and Los Angeles Times. His latest book is "A People's History of Sports in the United States."

Winona LaDuke; internationally respected Native American and environmental activist, founding director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and the co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network. Presentation entitled "Environmental Justice Locally, Nationally and Globally." Cosponsored with the Department of Multicultural Life.

Janice Haaken; Professor of Psychology at Portland State University, clinical psychologist, and documentary filmmaker; presented the documentary Moving to the Beat, in which an African American hip hop group, Rebel Soulz from Portland, Oregon journeys to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to discover a spiritual homeland and resurrect Chuck D’s notion of hip hop as the "black CNN."

Ibtisam Barakat, writer and educator, presented her memoir, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood.

Kulvinder Arora, Visiting Assistant Professor of WGSS in 2007-08, presented "The Mythology of Female Sexuality : Transnational Receptions."

David Román, Professor of English and of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, presented his research on the role of dance in lesbian, gay, and queer cultures in the United States immediately before and after the Stonewall Riots of 1969.

Martin F. Manalansan IV, Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, presented his book Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Associate Professor of Women's Studies (feminist theory, American Literature, and disability studies) at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, analyzed the ways we see disability using images from popular photography.

Joanna Kadi, Arab-American writer and activist

MADRE, international women's human rights organization

The East Timor Action Network

WGSS Affiliated Faculty Panels featuring: Susanna Drake (Religious Studies), Katrinka Somdahl-Sands (Geography), Ayse Celikkol (English), Andrea Cremer (History), Lara Nielsen (Theater and Dance), Lynn Hudson (History), Teresa Mesa (Hispanic and Latin American Studies), and Joanna Inglot (Art). Macalester faculty talked about their work related to various Women's History Month themes such as art, identity, and social change.

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Feminisms Today Speaker Series