Women and Gender Studies Program at George Mason University

Women and Gender Studies Program at George Mason University The mission of the Women and Gender Studies Center is to bridge academic coursework with student development, leadership, and coalition building.

Come Visit our Center throughout the week, for a cozy student space designed for studying, reading, and connecting with other students within WGST and across the university! We are designed to provide opportunities for intellectual, personal, and social inquiry and interrogation related to sex; gender; gender identity/expression; sexuality; intersections with race, ethnicity, class, (dis) ability,

age, nationality, immigration and citizenship status, and religion, through feminist, queer and multiracial lenses, with a focus on global and transnational issues and public policy. We host lectures, offer student development opportunities, and participate in important programs such as Women's History Month and the Consent Carnival to raise awareness and promote a sense of community on campus. Learn more about our events, access some of our women and gender studies resources, and get involved by visiting us! Our program offers a major in Women and Gender Studies, as well as two minors: Women and Gender Studies and LGBTQ Studies. For graduate students, we offer a 15-credit graduate Certificate and a 36-credit Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a Concentration in Women and Gender Studies.

Patriots! Need an extra class to fill up your schedule? Curious about transnational feminism and intersectionality? We h...
07/09/2025

Patriots! Need an extra class to fill up your schedule? Curious about transnational feminism and
intersectionality? We have the class for you! Take WMST 100 with any of these three professors to fit your schedule!

Here is a quote from previous student: "We were encouraged to speak our thoughts, and the space felt very safe. Furthermore, the course content was also remarkably interesting, and I was able to learn more about the women in the world. I can utilize what I have taken away from this class to other aspects of life and thinking processes. The class encourages you to think deeply but also connect and apply your knowledge"

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First Slide: Class Information such as course number: WMST 100 - 001 with Professor Taylor Macchia, contact info at [email protected]. Classes on Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:30-2:45pm

Second Slide: Class Information such as course number: WMST 100 - 002 with Professor Muge Yuce, contact info at [email protected] . Classes on Mondays and Wednesdays at 10:30-11:45Am

Third Slide: Class Information such as course number: WMST 100-DL1 with Dr. Rachel Lewis contact info at [email protected] . Classes are Asynchronous

06/24/2025

Patriots need a class for next semester? Take Professor Claudia Cabello's Intro to Women and Gender Studies!

ALT TEXT: Course Number: WMST 200, Taught by Claudia Cabello-Hutt, contact info at [email protected]. Classes on M/W 12:00-1:15 located at Aquia 347

Happy Pride Month Patriots, We at the center wanted to remind you all that you are loved and cared for. We see you for w...
06/24/2025

Happy Pride Month Patriots, We at the center wanted to remind you all that you are loved and cared for. We see you for who you are 🫶

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Happy Pride at top of flyer with the following words "This June, we honor the beauty, strength, and resilience of LGBTQIA+ communities.
Pride is not just a celebration it’s a reminder that love is powerful, identity is valid, and everyone deserves to be seen and supported.
To all our q***r, trans, and questioning folks: you are valued. You are loved. You are not alone.
-Women and Gender Studies Center" in front of a rainbow background with pride flags underneath.

✨ Today, we honor Juneteenth, a powerful reminder of Black resilience, liberation, and the continued fight for justice....
06/19/2025

✨ Today, we honor Juneteenth, a powerful reminder of Black resilience, liberation, and the continued fight for justice. On June 19, 1865, freedom finally reached the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

We celebrate this day as a moment to reflect, uplift, and recommit to building a future rooted in equity and justice.

✊🏽🖤

— From the Women and Gender Studies Center

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Flyer with gold geometric patterns features a Juneteenth message from the Women and Gender Studies Center at George Mason University. Text honors the delayed emancipation of Black Americans in 1865 and celebrates Black freedom, resilience, and justice. At the bottom, illustrated hands of different skin tones are raised, each painted with bold colors: blue, white, green, yellow, and red.

Hey Patriots, The Women and Gender Studies Center is looking for book donations and we’d love your help!Do you have book...
06/17/2025

Hey Patriots, The Women and Gender Studies Center is looking for book donations and we’d love your help!

Do you have books you’ve finished, outgrown, or just no longer need? Give them a second life by donating them to a space where stories matter. We’re especially looking for titles that align with these topics. We are looking to grow our Indigenous and Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander collection

Drop them off in room 240k located in the Johnson Center

Our summer hours are Monday-Wednesday from 10 am to 3 pm.
Any Questions, do not hesitate to dm or email us at [email protected]

ALT TEXT: The Women and Gender Studies Center are looking for book donations with these topics Women and Eastern Religions
-General Women's History
-Environmental Issues
-Women, Race, and Class in the American South
-U.S. and International Law
-LGBTQ+ Rights, Identities, and Expressions
-Migration and Refugees
-Censorship in Visual and Print Media
-Race and Sexuality
-Feminist and Q***r Poetry
-Feminist and Q***r Fiction
-Intersectionality
-Native and Indigenous
-Latinx Q***r Issues
-Title IX
-Roe v. Wade
-Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex
-Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander

AND WE'RE BACK! The Center will be open a few days a week so you can come relax, print your homework, and have a beverag...
05/27/2025

AND WE'RE BACK! The Center will be open a few days a week so you can come relax, print your homework, and have a beverage! See you soon!

The Women and Gender Studies faculty wish you all a great summer! đź’ś
05/14/2025

The Women and Gender Studies faculty wish you all a great summer! đź’ś

Have a wonderful break! The Women and Gender Studies Center is closed through 5/15-5/26. We will see you after Memorial ...
05/12/2025

Have a wonderful break! The Women and Gender Studies Center is closed through 5/15-5/26. We will see you after Memorial Day for our summer hours.

Join us TOMORROW in our last event of the semester, Quali-Tea voices, in an effort to uplift Asian, Asian American, and ...
04/30/2025

Join us TOMORROW in our last event of the semester, Quali-Tea voices, in an effort to uplift Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAAPI) voices right at the start of AAAPI History month! Relax for the last few days before finals by getting a cup of boba!

Make sure to register on Mason 360!

Alt Text: A white background with light brown decorations, bows at the top of the screen and waves simulating milk tea on the bottom. There are a few boba pearls littered across the milk tea. On top of the background with the bows are gold and white clouds and tree branches with gold and white flowers. On top of the boba tea background are animals drinking or holding boba, from left to right there is a cat on top of a boba cup, a bunny drinking boba, and a formosan black bear holding boba!

The top half of the graphic says "Quali-Tea Voices. Join us to highlight AAPI voices throughout history and modern day! JC Room 240K, May 1st, 10:00am-12:00pm" underneath that text is a QR Code. Under the QR code is the text "Free boba! (Milk Tea, Matcha, and Butterfly Pea Tea)"

Join us in our last event of the semester, Quali-Tea voices, in an effort to uplift Asian, Asian American, and Pacific I...
04/24/2025

Join us in our last event of the semester, Quali-Tea voices, in an effort to uplift Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAAPI) voices right at the start of AAAPI History month! Relax for the last few days before finals by getting a cup of boba! It's just one week away!

Make sure to register on Mason360!

Alt Text: A white background with light brown decorations, bows at the top of the screen and waves simulating milk tea on the bottom. There are a few boba pearls littered across the milk tea. On top of the background with the bows are gold and white clouds and tree branches with gold and white flowers. On top of the boba tea background are animals drinking or holding boba, from left to right there is a cat on top of a boba cup, a bunny drinking boba, and a formosan black bear holding boba!

The top half of the graphic says "Quali-Tea Voices. Join us to highlight AAPI voices throughout history and modern day! JC Room 240K, May 1st, 10:00am-12:00pm" underneath that text is a QR Code. Under the QR code is the text "Free boba! (Milk Tea, Matcha, and Butterfly Pea Tea)"

Join us in our last event of the semester, Quali-Tea voices, in an effort to uplift Asian, Asian American, and Pacific I...
04/18/2025

Join us in our last event of the semester, Quali-Tea voices, in an effort to uplift Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAAPI) voices right at the start of AAAPI History month! Relax for the last few days before finals by getting a cup of boba!

Register on Mason360!

Alt Text: A white background with light brown decorations, bows at the top of the screen and waves simulating milk tea on the bottom. There are a few boba pearls littered across the milk tea. On top of the background with the bows are gold and white clouds and tree branches with gold and white flowers. On top of the boba tea background are animals drinking or holding boba, from left to right there is a cat on top of a boba cup, a bunny drinking boba, and a formosan black bear holding boba!

The top half of the graphic says "Quali-Tea Voices. Join us to highlight AAPI voices throughout history and modern day! JC Room 240K, May 1st, 10:00am-12:00pm" underneath that text is a QR Code. Under the QR code is the text "Free boba! (Milk Tea, Matcha, and Butterfly Pea Tea)"

Looking for classes for Fall 2025? You might be interested in INTS 363/575 (Social Justice & Appalachia) or INTS 434 (Re...
04/04/2025

Looking for classes for Fall 2025? You might be interested in INTS 363/575 (Social Justice & Appalachia) or INTS 434 (Research for Social Change)!

The Social Justice class is also cross-listed as WGST 450 and 550, while Research for Social Change is also cross-listed as WMST 450, ENGH 488, and ANTH 396!

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Slide 1 is has an orange and red background, red at the top and orange in the middle with fall leaf decorations on the top. The red background holds text that says "Check Out This Fall 2025 Course" in orange text. The white text says "INTS 363/575-DL1" and "Social Justice Narratives" in yellow text.

There is a thin white box that says "Course Theme: Social Justice and Appalachia", beneath it says "also cross-listed with WGST 450 and 550". It is taught every Monday online from 10:30am-1:10pm and it's taught by Associate Professor David Powers Corwin.

The middle to bottom part of the slide lists two of the required readings for this course, which is "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Q***r and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia" (ISBN: 978-1952271427). The second reading is "Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy" (ISBN: 978-9525536932)

Slide 2 has a dark purple and white background, similar layout to the previous slide. The top left of the slide has a graphic that says "Be The Change" in multiple colors, next to it says "Check Out This Fall 2025 Course". Below that text says "INTS 434-001: Research for Social Change" In white to yellow text. This course is also cross-listed as WMST 450, ENGH 488, and ANTH 396. The class meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00-4:15pm in Horizon Hall Room 3014.

The white text has the course description saying "Introduces interdisciplinary research methods for social change. Explores students' epistemological assumptions, and uses tools of inquiry and discovery to explore transformative approaches to scholarship and creative work. Examines multiple critical approaches to inquiry including auto-ethnography and ethnography, feminist, q***r, and Indigenous research methods, participatory action research, critical quantitative analysis, and more."

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Fairfax, VA

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+17039932896

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The Women and Gender Studies programs at Mason are designed to give you a firm grounding in the theory and methodology of gender and help you better understand people, the relationships between s*x and gender, the impact of s*x, race, class, disability and s*xual orientation, gender identity and more. Connect with a research-minded faculty that will lead your exploration through an intersectional lens of topics such as women’s roles in social, political and economic life, women’s roles in history, women and the media, feminist theory and q***r theory. Acquire the tools to envision other alternatives to conventional stereotypes. We offer a Women and Gender Studies undergraduate major as well as an 18-credit undergraduate minor, and an 18-credit minor in LGBTQ Studies. Our graduate programs include 15-credit graduate Certificate and a 36-credit Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a Concentration in Women and Gender Studies. In the The Women and Gender Studies Center – a coalition that bridges academic coursework with student development, leadership and team building – you can get involved with many events, research opportunities and community activism.