Mon. 10/6 12:00–1:30 p.m. in Pembroke 202. Info session for undergrad & grad students to learn about this year’s Pembroke Center student research grants. Pizza and soft drinks provided. For more information, contact Helis Sikk ([email protected]) or Wendy Lee ([email protected]).

Watch Kevin Quashie give the 2024 Sherman lecture, “Thinking Lucille Clifton Thinking,” on our YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCso.... #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

Power Pieces: Fashion as Armor and the Politics of Dress: A Pop-up Exhibit and Panel Discussion. Fri. 10/17/25 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. More information: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @wozbell.bsky.social @risd1877.bsky.social @brown.edu

"For most of my life, I did not think very much about housework." Read more from Emily Callaci's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted “Wages for Housework” here. The Federici papers, held in our archives, are available for research. lithub.com/how-feminist...

Applications open for our student research grants for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Applications for the 2025-26 year will be due on Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

From the Pembroke Center Archives Oral History Project: Kathy Le '97 speaks about fleeing Vietnam after the war, her mother's tenacity as a refugee, meeting Robert McNamara while a student at Brown, and much more in this interview. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...

All are welcome to this mixer focused on RISD/Brown LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff as we celebrate the new academic year. We’ll gather at the Faculty Club for appetizers and socializing. RSVPs are encouraged for planning purposes. RSVP rainbowmixer2025.eventbrite.com

Applications open for our student research grants for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Applications for the 2025-26 year will be due on Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

hThe Pembroke Center Archives looks forward to supporting this undergraduate fellowship each year, providing instructional sessions about the Archives and mentorship to fellows researching gender and sexuality topics.

Applications open for our student research grants for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Applications for the 2025-26 year will be due on Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

“Olga Dies Dreaming,” by Xochil Gonzalez ’99, is the 2025 One Book, One Chicago selection by the Chicago Public Library & Mayor Johnson. Gonzalez’s papers are held in our Archives. Access the papers: share.google/HJeiuLzlkCpy...

Meet the Pembroke Seminar Student Fellows! Grad Fellows: Looghermine Claude, Shannon Constantine, Monaye Johnson, Sam Washington, & Amelle Zeroug. Undergrad: Samantha Ho & Jenny Hu. This year's Seminar is led by Juliet Hooker. Read more: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-08... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Introducing our Pembroke Seminar Postdoctoral Fellows! Slide 2: Eliana Chavkin and Rahma Haji; Slide 3: María Camila Palacio and Míša Stekl. Fellows will participate in "The Civic Work of Monuments" led by Juliet Hooker. Read more: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-08... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Welcome to our Pembroke Seminar Faculty Fellows! Slide 2: Juliet Hooker (Political Science), Seminar Leader; Slide 3: Faculty Fellows Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro (Hispanic Stu.) & Hieyoon Kim (East Asian Stu.). More: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-08... @juliethooker.bsky.social @0absentia.bsky.social

Shop a GNSS course this fall! Learn more on CAB: cab.brown.edu?subj=GNSS Post 2/2

Shop a Gender and Sexuality Studies class! Learn more on CAB: cab.brown.edu?subj=GNSS Post 1/2

Applications open for our student research grants for current Brown undergrads and grad students. Applications for the 2025-26 year will be due on Mon., 10/13. More about the grants: pembroke.brown.edu/academics/st.... @brown.edu

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Brown undergrads: consider taking GNSS 1962H this fall. Is it Me or is it Meme?: Blackness and Memes. Thursday 4:00-6:30 p.m. Instructor: Rahma Haji. This course explores memes as sites of black cultural production. CAB link: cab.brown.edu?keyword=gnss....

All are welcome to this mixer focused on RISD/Brown LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff as we celebrate the new academic year. We’ll gather at the Faculty Club for appetizers and socializing. RSVPs are encouraged for planning purposes. RSVP rainbowmixer2025.eventbrite.com

Brown students: consider taking GNSS 1962G this fall. Designing Public Memory: Race, Gender, and the Creation of the American Commemorative Landscape. Monday 2:00-4:30 p.m. Instructor Eliana Chavkin. CAB link: cab.brown.edu?keyword=gnss...

"They’re testing the waters for prosecuting places that tolerate trans women. Part of the point is to force accommodation or to scare other higher ed institutions. This is bigger than just trans athletes.” — Joan Wallach Scott, gender historian & member of AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom

Brown students: consider GNSS 1962C, "Art of Survival." Friday 3-5:30. Instructor: Sarah Richter. CAB: cab.brown.edu?keyword=gnss...

Watch C. Riley Snorton (Chicago) giving the keynote “Thinking Gender in the Interstice” at our graduate student-organized Hortense Spillers symposium. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLDw... #TBT #ThrowbackThursday @crileysnorton.bsky.social

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

From the Pembroke Center Archives' Oral History Project: Sara Matthiesen '15, discusses her experiences as a professor and social justice activist in Washington, DC, during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...

Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Excited to read Stigmata, by differences' Managing Editor Scott Jackshaw.

We are delighted to welcome two new Center staff. Scott Jackshaw joins differences as Managing Editor; Erin Perfect joins the archives team as Processing Archivist. Read about Scott : pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-07... Read about Erin: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-05... @differences.bsky.social

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Louise Lamphere sex discrimination lawsuit. Lamphere's fight resulted in a large increase in women faculty. In 2008, Lamphere established a professorship in Gender Studies. Read more here: anthropology.brown.edu/louise-lamph.... @brownanthro.bsky.social

4/4 ‪More archival materials to mark the 50th anniversary year of the Louise Lamphere lawsuit. The Cserr papers: www.riamco.org/render?eadid... The digital exhibit curated in 2015 about the lawsuit: pembrokeexhibits.squarespace.com/about-the-ex.... @brownanthro.bsky.social‬ @brown.edu

‪3/4 In the 50th anniversary year of the Louise Lamphere lawsuit, we share these resources from our archives. Oral history interviews: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral... The Lamphere papers: www.riamco.org/render?eadid... @brownanthro.bsky.social‬ @brown.edu

2/4 Louise Lamphere challenged the decision to deny her tenure in a legal action that became a class action lawsuit. In our archives you can find oral history interviews and the papers of Lamphere and Helen Cserr, physiology professor who joined the suit. ‪@brownanthro.bsky.social‬ @brown.edu

Post 1/4. 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Louise Lamphere vs. Brown University, the landmark sex discrimination case that changed the face of Brown. Lamphere was an assistant professor of anthropology who was denied tenure. ‪@brown.edu‬ @brownanthro.bsky.social‬

To read: this interview of Elizabeth Weed and Elizabeth A. Wilson, differences editors, by Eugenia Zuroski, president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. www.celj.org/featured-jou.... differences is CELJ's newest featured journal. @differences.bsky.social‬ ‪@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social‬

"Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1), is now available! View the TOC and read "Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles" by Lee Edelman, freely available through 9/5: buff.ly/FhdR7Ft

Watch Prof. Deborah McDowell speaking out about the forced resignation of UVA's president. We look forward to opening her archival papers for research after welcoming them into the Pembroke Center's Black Feminist Theory Collections this spring.

Out this month: the memoir of Claire Kahane, feminist psychoanalytic critic and scholar. Title: "Nine Lives: My Risky Road from Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic." Kahane's papers are in our Feminist Theory Archive and are available for research. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid....

ICYMI: watch "Changing the Narrative Around Sexy Selfies" with Leora Tanenbaum '91 on our YouTube playlist. An intergenerational dialogue with Tanenbaum, Wendy Allison Lee AM’05, PhD’12, Connie Collins ’23.5 and Priya Mosher ’23.5 @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Catch "Leslie Bostrom: Wild Stories" at the Granoff before June 13. Bostrom is retiring from the Department of Visual Art this year. Her papers will be held as part of the Feminist Theory Archive collections at the Pembroke Center Archives. arts.brown.edu/programs/gra...

differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

"Limits of Legibility: Questions of Blackness and Sexuality" is dedicated to the memory of Selamawit D. Terrefe.

Thanks Leora Tanenbaum, Priya Mosher, Connie Collins, & Wendy A. Lee for a great conversation at Saturday's "Changing the Narrative Around Sexy Selfies," which centered on Tanenbaum's book Sexy Selfie Nation. Video coming soon. ‪@leoratanenbaum.bsky.social‬ ‪@wendyallisonlee.bsky.social‬

TODAY! Join the Friends of the Pembroke Center Saturday, May 24 at 9:00 a.m. for "Changing the Narrative Around Sexy Selfies." More info: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Join the Friends of the Pembroke Center Saturday, May 24 at 9:00 a.m. for "Changing the Narrative Around Sexy Selfies." More info: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social

Congratulations to this year's Pembroke Center student prizewinners! Slide 1: Shravya Sompalli ’25, Anna Brent-Levenstein ’25 (honorable mention), Alexandra Mork ’25 (honorable mention). Slide 2: Alissa Simon ’25. Slide 3: Harper Shalloe PhD ’25 and Allyson LaForge PhD ’25 (honorable mention).

This Saturday! Join the Friends of the Pembroke Center Saturday, May 24 at 9:00 a.m. for "Changing the Narrative Around Sexy Selfies." More info: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social

From the Archives: this interview w/ Kimberly Wright-King '90. Wright-King has built a distinguished career in foreign service, including currently serving as American Citizen Services Chief at the United States Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...

Next week: join the Friends of the Pembroke Center Saturday, May 24 at 9:00 a.m. for "Changing the Narrative Around Sexy Selfies." More info: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @leoratanenbaum.bsky.social @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social