Winona State University, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Winona State University, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies WGSS minors earn majors across all Colleges at WSU.

Winona State University's Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program offers students an interdisciplinary minor that is housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The minor in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies brings three fields of inquiry into conversation in order to engage critical analyses ranging from the personal to the global at the intersections of sex, gender, sexuality, race, class,

ethnicity, and ability.

• Women’s Studies: foregrounds the lived experience and material conditions of women
• Gender Studies: highlights the social construction of masculinities and femininities
• Sexuality Studies: focuses on sexual behaviors, expressions, identities, and politics

It is integral to understand women’s studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies as having distinct disciplinary histories and as overlapping and transformational when taught in relation to one another. The curriculum intentionally draws from these three fields to approach problems of sex, gender, and sexuality from various critical angles.

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11/20/2025

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Join us during Research and Creative Achievement Day at the Library! “We all have a story. Long stories. Short stories. ...
04/17/2025

Join us during Research and Creative Achievement Day at the Library!

“We all have a story. Long stories. Short stories. Some have endings. Some don’t. Our stories are what make us up, our points of reference. So many stories have yet to be told. And so many stories have yet to be validated. Here, validation means listening, not just hearing. It means taking someone’s feelings seriously and not making light of them. It means being honest and communicative. It means letting someone know they are an important person” (Free Winona: Journal of Mutual Aid, March 2009).

As part of the course WGSS 374: Q***r Liberation Theories and Politics, we studied the Greater Minnesota Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ History Map to contribute to the map and our q***r history. As part of this research, we examined the archive of Free Winona, which reminds us of the importance of not just hearing but listening.

As we have learned, core to the history of struggle for q***r liberation has been mutual aid. For instance, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) work to ensure secure food, housing, and self-determination for LGBTQ+ youth in 1970s New York. According to Dean Spade: "Mutual aid is a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another…by actually building new social relations that are more survivable” (Spade, pg. 136). Free Winona, a mutual aid journal from 2008-2009, is a reminder that mutual aid strategies are practices in rural spaces for liberation.

During this research event, students will create a living community archive to provide a space to listen and learn about liberation, collective care, and connect the past and present. We invite you to explore our research and conversation with LGBTQ+ elders, organizers, and troublemakers who will be interviewed by student scholars on the first floor of the Krueger Library to continue expanding our understanding of the Greater Minnesota Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ History Map.

04/09/2025

It's that time of year again!
Next week, join WSU Students for Reproductive Justice for our S*x Ed Game Night!!

04/08/2025

Today the WSU Nursing Department is presenting on the importance and awareness of s*xual violence, come join them at 4:30pm today in the Science Laboratory Center 120 to learn more

Winona State University, Women's, Gender, & S*xuality Studies will be attending the conference with WSU Students for Rep...
04/08/2025

Winona State University, Women's, Gender, & S*xuality Studies will be attending the conference with WSU Students for Reproductive Justice and Turtle Island Student Organization - TISO!

04/04/2025
March 31st join us for Trans Day of Eating a Nice Snack!
03/28/2025

March 31st join us for Trans Day of Eating a Nice Snack!

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