Professor Sami Schalk was featured in Madison Magazine’s “Faces of Pride” piece with 10 other Madisonians, as part of LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Professor Schalk shares ways in which her local queer community showed up for her this past year, particularly during #BlackLivesMatter activism and during the isolation of the pandemic. Read the full piece here.
GWS second-year MA student Rodlyn-mae Banting published a new article in Bitch Media, “License to Feel: ‘SOUR’ Highlights the Unique Wisdom of Teen Girls.” “My instinct to recoil at Rodrigo’s admission that she’s not over her ex-boyfriend, the object of ‘driver’s license,’ is a learned response to teen girlhood; it is a reflection of how …
This spring, the GWS internship course went online. Students did fantastic work for Madison-based organizations like End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, Legal Action of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Women’s Network, and the Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. Madelyn Adler, an intern with the Wisconsin Women’s Network, developed a compelling visualization …