Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Welcome to the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is a bi-campus multidisciplinary program with a profound social justice goal: to understand how gender and sexuality shape our culture, daily lives, social institutions, and interactions.
Our program brings together over 50 faculty from from 13 departments and programs across both campuses, professors whose research and teaching focus on women, gender, and/or sexuality. In addition to offering dozens of courses across the social sciences and humanities, the program serves as an intellectual center for faculty and students.
Our faculty are central in bringing cross-disciplinary perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality both to the University community and to a wider public through our course offerings as well as by sponsoring conferences, lectures, movie screenings, performances, and other events.
Women's suffragists demonstrate in February 1913 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC- DIG-ggbain-12483, No known restrictions on publication.)
Upcoming Events!
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Community Craft Night
Date: March 24, 2026
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Dealy 105Learn to needle felt or make decorative bookmarks while chatting with students and faculty from interdisciplinary programs such as American Studies, Asian American Studies, Disability Studies, Fashion Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Crafts and snacks will be provided!
Sponsored by the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Arts and Sciences Deans’ Challenge Grant
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“Six Viewpoints: A Hands-on Workshop”
Date: April 23, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 p.m.
Location: 150 W 62nd St (LC Law School Building), Room 7-119In this three-hour improvisatory workshop, Susannah Wilson will guide participants through a condensed introduction to the Six Viewpoints, a philosophy and practice originated by dancer and choreographer Mary Overlie. In interrogating her artistic practice, Overlie discovered the medium of performance could be deconstructed into the following parts: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, and Story. By establishing these elements on a non-hierarchical, horizontal plane, one is able to approach them as “physical entities akin to natural landscapes that can be entered and traversed.” While Overlie developed this framework to describe the language of performance, the Six Viewpoints materials and practice has myriad applications. When we enter into conversation with the materials, we discover new ways to navigate the world, ourselves, and those around us.
- Understand each other
- Build trust
- Find shared purpose
- Have meaningful conversations across difference
- Playfully explore polarizing subjects
- Share the pleasure of imagining and collaborating together!
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