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12/1/20

A feminist print culture and storytelling symposium co-hosted and co-organized by 草莓传媒官网下载 MWGS professor Agatha Beins, PhD, in collaboration with Beth Currans from Eastern Michigan University, was held Nov. 6, 2020, and attracted participants from across the nation. During "Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels" panelists explored traditional and indigenous stories, mass-market fiction, scholarly work, and ephemera to illuminate the politics and processes of storytelling and publishing.

Philips-Cunningham receives 2020 Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History

12/1/20

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, Associate Professor of Multicultural Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, was recently awarded the  from Georgia State University.

Phillips-Cunningham will deliver a presentation at GSU on her project, titled 鈥溾�橶e Aren鈥檛 Aunt Jemima Women鈥�: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing in Atlanta, Georgia.鈥� The Reed Fink Award will also support Phillips-Cunningham鈥檚 research of the Dorothy Bolden Collection at GSU鈥檚 Southern Labor History Archives.

Bolden established the National Domestic Workers鈥� Union of America in 1968. She also worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr., US House Representative John Lewis, Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, and US President Jimmy Carter to organize working-class Black women into the largest voting bloc in Georgia鈥檚 history. Her legacy lives on through Stacey Abrams鈥� Fair Fight organization, The National Domestic Workers Alliance, and other organizations that challenge voter suppression today.

11/30/20

In November, a limited audience of 草莓传媒官网下载 community members were treated to a free 草莓传媒官网下载 Chamber Singers and Concert Choir performance in an unusual location: The third floor of the Oakland Street Parking Garage. The vocal ensembles, led by professor Joni Jensen, DMA, first made use of the open-air space for rehearsals and then decided to transform the spot into a unique, socially-distanced venue for 鈥淯ntraveled Worlds.鈥�

11/24/20

Assistant professor Johnathan Smilges' dissertation, "Queer Silence: Rhetorics of Resistance," recently won the , the premier organization of feminist rhetoricians. The award is presented biennially to the "doctoral dissertation that makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of feminist histories, theories, and pedagogies of rhetoric and composition.鈥� One judge wrote the following of Smilges鈥檚 project:

鈥淪milges鈥檚 work savvily moves between theory and analysis, offering up important insights in the ways that silences work in queer and trans rhetorics. Their chapter on ex-gays is compassionate, smart, aware of its limitations, and deftly ties together queer theory and disability theory.鈥�

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11/12/20

Now in pursuit of a master鈥檚 degree in political science, Dawna-Diamond Tyson holds, arguably, 草莓传媒官网下载鈥檚 highest student role: Student Regent. She is the first graduate student in 草莓传媒官网下载 history to hold that post. While not a voting member, she acts as a voice for students on the Denton, Dallas and Houston campuses to 草莓传媒官网下载鈥檚 Board of Regents and represents 草莓传媒官网下载 at the highest levels within Texas higher education.