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Commentary by Drs. Almeida and Rohrer published in the Inlander

EWU students and community members discuss immigration during and Activist in Residence workshop

Dr. Deirdre Almeida and Dr. Judy Rohrer’s commentary, “EWU’s future: Will the new president restore the diversity programs that were once a vibrant calling cared of the university?” was published in the Inlander today.

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GWSS Director, Judy Rohrer, PhD explores the troubling history and the troubled future of the Boy Scouts

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In the recent article, published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Dr. Rohrer exposes the ways in which the bankrupt Boy Scouts of American “has been broadly bankrupt from the beginning.”

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Are we Ready to Emerge from COVID-19 by Judy Rohrer

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In this piece, our director, Dr. Judy Rohrer, reminds us “we would do well now to slow down, take stock of the luggage we are carrying and the carcasses we are still dragging.”   Cover image by: NurseTogether, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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GWSS Faculty, Students and Staff Win Numerous Awards

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We are always proud of all of our faculty, students and staff. This year, we are thrilled that so many of them have been recognized for their incredible work. Dr. Jessi Willis won the College of Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award for their enthusiasm and innovation in the teaching and/or learning process, their ability to

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“White people: Let’s listen and ‘not turn away'” by Judy Rohrer

May 5, 2021 by Will Hall

Black Lives Matter march in DC

Our Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies director, Judy Rohrer, PhD encourages white people “to stop, to really listen, to not turn away, to directly confront the violence and trauma of White supremacy” in this recent article published in the Inlander.

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Black Lives and Movements Matter: Black History Month Graphic Design Contest Winners

Black Lives and Movements Matter: Black History Month Graphic Design Contest Winners

An Innovative Collaboration Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and the Women’s and Gender Education (WAGE) Center were pleased to collaborate with Visual Communication Design faculty Sonja Durr, MFA to host the Black Lives and Movements Matter: Black History Month graphic design contest in her Visual Communication Design 3 – Design for Social Change students.

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Activist in Residence 2021

Activist in Residence

The Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies Program and the Women’s and Gender Education Center are the lead organizers of the Activist In Residence (AIR) program on the EWU campus. For an eighth year, AIR will bring an activist to campus to work with EWU students, staff, faculty, and community members during winter quarter of 2021.

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GWSS Director Contributes to Guest Opinion with Community Partners

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Katie Horvath, the executive director of the Spectrum LGBTQ+ Center, Judy Rohrer, the director of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at EWU, and Naghmana Sherazi, a board member of the Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane worked together on this Guest Opinion for the Spokesman-Review. They remind readers that 52 community partners in and

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