Women and Gender Studies at SFSU

05/13/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Women and Gender Studies Alumni Panel last week!
We are grateful to our distinguished alumni (from left to right: Lena Thaler, Julie Mau, Sharron Watts-Brooks, Manuela Delnevo, and Indira Chakrabarti) for sharing their inspiring journeys and insights. Your stories continue to demonstrate the many ways a degree in Women and Gender Studies can shape meaningful and impactful careers.
Read more about the participants here: https://wgsdept.sfsu.edu/event/women-and-gender-studies-alumni-panel-0

04/05/2025

Are you transferring or considering other majors at SF State?
Come and say hi to Tachi, have a temp feminist tattoo, and find out about the ways we support our students 🌻
Find our table across the north entrance of the J Paul Leonard Library

03/13/2025

This coming Saturday the 15th, at the Mission Campus of City College of San Francisco, with WGS MA student Maria Cerna.
See you all there!

03/04/2025

Tomorrow!
We are honored to host with the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University Mimi Khúc, PhD, a writer and scholar whose work explores Asian American identity, gender, and disability studies. She is the creator of Open in Emergency and the Asian American Tarot and the author of dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss, a powerful examination of Asian American mental health, ableism, and collective care.

Link to RSVP in the comments section.

Announcing The Longmore Lecture 2025 with Mimi Khúc - https://mailchi.mp/206653c703ad/february2025-16551842

Description: Curves and twists of color behind Mimi Khúc's photo, an Asian American woman with short black hair, looks at the camera with shadows coming in through the window frame. Text as inside.

02/18/2025

Announcing The Longmore Lecture 2025 with Mimi Khúc - https://mailchi.mp/206653c703ad/february2025-16551842

Description: Curves and twists of color behind Mimi Khúc's photo, an Asian American woman with short black hair, looks at the camera with shadows coming in through the window frame. Text as inside.

02/18/2025

CSU WGS Programs Call for Reinstatement of SSU WGS. Our department in support and solidarity of Sonoma State University WGS

Dear CSU Chancellor Garcia, Governor Newsom, members of the California State Legislature, SSU Interim President Cutrer, and SSU Provost Moranski,

02/14/2025

WGS professor and Chair Martha Kenney, and professor of Anthropology Martha Lincoln on the recent investment of CSU on AI - read full article here:

The integration of AI into higher education is essentially an unregulated experiment. Why should our students be the guinea pigs?

02/11/2025

02/04/2025

Public Health Professor and Director of Sally! Documentary Showing Deborah Craig, in her recent interview about the documentary on KQED:

Sally Gearhart was an influential activist who shaped LGBTQ history and the women’s movement in the Bay Area. So why don’t more people know about her?