Institute for Research on Women - Rutgers University

06/01/2026

This June, we honor LGBTQ+ communities, histories, and movements that continue to expand conversations around identity, justice, and belonging.

We celebrate Pride in recognition of those who came before, those creating change today, and the communities shaping what’s possible for the future.

Photo Credit: Seattle Pride

05/26/2026

IRW's Podcast series, Mnemosyne, named after the Greek goddess of memory and language is a space for feminist storytelling, with conversations about feminist work and research across disciplines. Hosts Andrea Zerpa and Ameena Qobrtay interview Dr. Basuli Deb, educator, activist and former IRW Global Scholar decolonial solidarity, her time spent in a monestary, astrology, and more.

To listen to the full episode visit https://tinyurl.com/yst58aha

05/26/2026

IRW’s Podcast series, Mnemosyne, named after the Greek goddess of memory and language is a space for feminist storytelling, with conversations about feminist work and research across disciplines. Hosts Andrea Zerpa and Ameena Qobrtay interview Dr. Basuli Deb, educator, activist and former IRW Global Scholar decolonial solidarity, her time spent in a monestary, astrology, and more.

Click the link in our bio to listen to the full episode!

05/25/2026

In Running into Osun, Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza reflects on an impromptu journey to the Osun River in Nigeria alongside High Priestess Talabi Adedoyin Olosun Faniyi (Iya Doyin) and renowned Africanist Dr. Henry Drewal. Through ritual, offering, memory, and kinship, the essay explores alternate ways of being, healing, motherhood, and spiritual care in a world “in constant disrepair.”

Read the full essay here https://tinyurl.com/yvrv9mda

05/21/2026

This month, we’re highlighting “Decolonial Feminist Genealogies and Futures”, co-edited by Annie Isabel Fukushima, Ph.D. and K. Melchor Quick Hall. This visionary collection explores resistance, collective liberation, feminist futures, and decolonial ways of imagining and building new worlds.

We were honored to welcome back former IRW scholar, Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima to our “Building and Rebuilding Feminisms in the Academy” panel during IRW’s year-end conference, Solidarity Against Authoritarianism, the closing program of our 2025–2026 series Feminism, Academic Freedom, and Democracy. Dr. Fukushima, now Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies in the College of Humanities at University of Utah, was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at IRW/WGSS (2013 – 2015).

05/08/2026

The Spring 2026 issue of Rejoinder, "Ritual, Healing, and World-Making” is now available! Contributors include: Angela Adee Andriesse, Scott Ennis, María Andreína Escalona De Abreu, Tracy Fahey, Swan Ferraro, Sarah Giragosian, Charlene Langfur, Florencia Marchetti, Tzvi Mayer, Laura McCullough, Amy S. Morgenstern, Kevin Martens Wong Zhi Qiang, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Michelle Valois, Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza, and Kristen T. Woodward.

Rejoinder is an online journal published by the Institute for Research on Women (IRW) at Rutgers in partnership with The Feminist Art Project. To read the full issue visit: https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder

🎨: Kristen T. Woodward

Institute for Research on Women, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

11/25/2025

New Rejoinder call. Please forward widely.

11/25/2025

Join us on Dec 4!

10/10/2025

On Monday!

05/05/2025

Read our new issue of Rejoinder on "Dissenting Feminisms."

Institute for Research on Women, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey