This fall's alumni newsletter covers the happenings at GWS! 🔸 CRGW events 🔸 our 50th anniversary celebration 🔸 updates from our podcast GWS IN ACTION 🔸 alumni, faculty, and course spotlights ...and a letter from our new chair, Dr. Nick Syrett! Check out our link in bio to read the full newsletter!

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

The Center for Research on Gender at UW Madison is excited to invite you to the inaugural talk in its 2025-26 De Cleene GWS Student Leadership Series with Jeanne Duffy, the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Women's Council!

A recent research survey led by @ibisrh.bsky.social highlights significant barriers 🚧 in accessing preferred contraceptive methods among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the U.S. ⚠️ 37% of respondents were not using their method of choice. Study: buff.ly/FaGHxSw #TeachingTuesday

"Women’s life expectancy advantage declined for roughly four decades but resurged after 2012." - Rodrigo González-Velastín and Christine Schwartz in Population and Development Review. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Are you attending #NWSA? 📝 Check out our faculty and student's amazing research! @drsamischalk.bsky.social will be presenting "35 Year after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Disability Justice as Feminist Practice" #AcademicSky

Are you attending #NWSA? 😱 Check out our faculty and student's amazing research! Interested in learning about our Ph.D. program? Come meet us at the M.A./Ph.D. Meet & Greet! 🤝 #AcademicSky

Alert: another book for your TBR! 📖 Check out the chapter by GWS' Kelly Ward titled "Shift Work: Abortion Care in an Ever-Changing Landscape" #AcademicSky

@karlajstrand.com has November's Must-Reads from MS magazine! msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...

These days, in many places, many things can’t be said directly. Can we say them in poetry? @asiancha.bsky.social is seeking poems and translations for our ongoing series “Fight with Words, Write to Power” (in short, “Write to Power”). We welcome Asia-focused works. chajournal.blog/2025/11/03/w...

Are you attending #NWSA? 📖 Dr. Aurora Santiago-Ortiz will be signing books at the Feminist Press Booth! #AcademicSky

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

Are you attending #NWSA? 🤩 Check out our faculty and student's amazing research! @drsamischalk.bsky.social will be presenting "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing" #AcademicSky

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

On this day- October 29, 1966- the National Organization of Women or “NOW” was established. One Wisconsinite led the way in advocating for women’s rights. STORY: https://www.wmtv15news.com/2025/10/29/october-29-1966-national-organization-women-established/ 

Are you attending #NWSA? ✊ Check out our faculty and student's amazing research! Dr. Aurora Santiago-Ortiz will be presenting "Dismantling the Territoriality of Patriarchal Colonialism: Squatting as Reparation in Caguas". #AcademicSky

Are you attending #NWSA? 🙋‍♀️ Check out our faculty & student's amazing research! Dr. Aurora Santiago-Ortiz & grad student Joniel Pacheco-Munoz will be presenting together on Black and Decolonial Feminist Interventions in Puerto Rico. #AcademicSky

Gender & Women's Studies at UW-Madison is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in gender/sexuality and aging! We are particularly interested in focusing on health/aging at the intersection of sex, gender, & sexuality. Deadline: Nov 11! For more information and to apply, please visit

Are you attending #NWSA? ✏️ Check out our faculty and student's amazing research! Graduate student Jungyeon Lee will be presenting "Queer and Feminist Affect: Coalition Building at the Margins" #AcademicSky

Dr. Molly M. Henderson is a Visiting Professor of Gender & Women's Studies! We are so excited to have her here with us! Learn more about Dr. Henderson and their adorable dog on our website.

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Are you attending #NWSA? 😱 Check out our faculty and student's amazing research! Dr. Stephanie Rytilahti, Director of the Women's and Gender Consortium for the University of Wisconsin system, is presenting "Building Trans-Institutional WGSS Networks: Possibilities and Challenges" #AcademicSky

Allison Daminger #published "What's on Her Mind?: The Mental Workload of Family Life" with @princetonupress.bsky.social The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it. sociology.wisc.edu/2025/09/24/w...

Our 2nd year PhD students will be sharing presentations on their qualifying paper research, the first milestone required of our PhD students! GWS is excited to come together to share and recognize our graduate students' exciting research. #AcademicSky #UWMadison

Today is the LAST DAY to donate to help grow the pink flamingo flock on Bascom Hill! If you donate $100 or more, you'll receive a mini flamingo and $350 or more will qualify you for a full-sized flamingo! See our link in bio to visit our GWS Fill the Hill webpage! #UWMadison #FillTheHill

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

The flamingos are HERE! Donate NOW to help grow the pink flamingo flock on Bascom Hill! Every gift UW receives will add a flamingo. Your gift to GWS promotes research, sponsors student internships, fosters leadership opportunities & more. See our link in bio to visit our GWS Fill the Hill webpage!

The flamingos are coming NEXT WEEK! There are so many ways to get involved in UW-Madison's Fill the Hill event October 9th and 10th! See our link in bio to visit our GWS Fill the Hill webpage! #UWMadison #FillTheHill

Congratulations to Sara Chadwick, assistant professor in both @uwmadisongws.bsky.social and @uwpsych.bsky.social, on receiving a distinguished honors faculty award! 👏

Alert: new books to put on your TBR! Gender & Women's Studies and Asian American Studies Professor Rachel Kuo has two books releasing this month! Both of these works are a product of deep commitment to equity & activism. Visit our webpage in the link in bio to read more about these books.

Hello, Bluesky! The Gender & Women's Studies Department at UW-Madison is excited to join the conversation. Follow us for updates on groundbreaking research, upcoming events, and stories from our brilliant students and faculty. #AcademicSky #UWMadison @uwmadison.bsky.social