UMA Women's and Gender Studies

11/07/2025

JEDI Movie Night!

Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Q***r and Trans Television in the Age of Streaming

with a post-viewing discussion led by UMA’s Associate Dean of Students Tasia Lima



About the film: Beyond the Straight and Narrow stands to empower a new generation of young people with the tools needed to critically examine the relationship between media representations, corporate power, and long-fought social and political struggles over who gets to exist in our national imagination.

November 12, 2025, 4pm
Fireside Lounge, Augusta Campus and zoom https://maine.zoom.us/j/88420903172
Contact: Ann Kennedy at [email protected]

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02/06/2025

Submissions are open for spring 2025!

Ripple wants Your work!
We accept poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including essays, reviews, and social commentary. We also accept artwork, including photography, drawings, paintings and other mediums that translate well to print. These submissions should relate to women, gender, sexuality, identity, and/or feminism.

Send your submissions to
[email protected] by March 14, 2025

02/06/2025

Dean Spade is coming to UMA March 12th!
Sticking Together in Tough Times
Wednesday, March 12⋅12:00 – 1:00pm
Online, Augusta Campus, and Bangor Campus (details in description)

Times are so tough. We're facing ramped up targeting of our communities on so many fronts, increasing political repression, worsening ecological crisis, rising rent and food prices, an ongoing pandemic, and so much more. How do we stick together during difficult times, choosing to care for each other and build resistance even under severe conditions? How do we focus on what we can do in our own communities rather than hoping that answers will come from politicians, billionaires, or big non-profits?

In this talk, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) and Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up and Raise Hell, Together will talk about the kinds of bold, rule-breaking, risk-taking resistance that people are taking up to care for each other and save lives right now, and what it takes for us to show up for each other in this moment, even though organizing can be difficult.

This event is free and ONLINE but requires registration.

https://maine.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4FDzPDk8SgODEF8_B0vchA #/registration

Want to attend with others? Eastport 124, Bangor and Jewett 289, Augusta are reserved for those who want to gather in-person.

03/18/2024

02/06/2024

02/06/2024

It's Groundhog Day, and we're predicting reproductive autonomy. 💚 Support LD 780! Let the people vote. Contact your local representatives, write letters to the editor, talk to your neighbors. Let's do this, Maine. Check out this page with more information from our friends at Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund: https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-maine-action-fund/maine-constitutional-amendment

02/06/2024

Ripple is accepting submissions for spring 2024!

05/16/2023

This move follows recent efforts by Gov. DeSantis to crack down on what he calls "woke indoctrination" in schools.

04/07/2023

Ripple Reading April 27th, 6-7pm in-person at UMA-Bangor, Lewiston Hall 119 and by zoom at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ripple-reading-and-freedom-to-learn-event-tickets-609815874697

03/31/2023

GRR! Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights visits UMA Bangor! April 6th, Lewiston Hall 119 and virtually at the link:
https://maine.zoom.us/j/82894880291 at 1pm.