Category: Gender & Sexuality

  • Scholar Spotlight: Ramneet Kaur Bhullar

    Scholar Spotlight: Ramneet Kaur Bhullar

    1. Why did you apply to HASTAC? HASTAC was brought my attention from a professor at my current university, Dr. Janni Aragon at UVIC. I was a first-year transfer student still trying to find my bearings in my new community and in academia. Before joining UVIC and having the opportunity to participate in HASTAC, I […]

  • Thinking through a pandemic: reflections & resources from humanities and social sciences

    Thinking through a pandemic: reflections & resources from humanities and social sciences

    Cihan: On March 10, when the Futures Initiative team was preparing to start working remotely, I started to write a few paragraphs reflecting on the resources I have as a scholar who is interested in our collective human heritage. From my previous, recent experience of collective uncertainty and fear accompanying large-scale political repression, I had […]

  • Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction (Jon Heggestad)

    Discussion of Numbered Lives, Introduction (Jon Heggestad)

    This post is part of the HASTAC Scholars Collaborative Book Discussion on Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (MIT Press, 2018), by HASTAC Co-Director Jacqueline Wernimont. — Introduction In the introduction of Numbered Lives, Jacqueline Wernimont situates her work in a number of disciplinary frameworks, theories, and methods, while simultaneously demonstrating how and […]

  • Does “yes” also mean “no”?: The unwritten rules of consent in youths’ lives

    Despite the new, heightened attention on the topic, issues of sexual violence are still yet to be adequately addressed in North American curriculum, particularly in parts of Canada. Indeed, Ontario’s recent provincial government caused a flurry of confusion when they reverted their curriculum to the 1998 version, which removed newer updates that included discussions of […]

  • On the Chilean Feminist Movement & STS

    On the Chilean Feminist Movement & STS

    ASU scholar and graduate student in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Martin Perez Comisso (@mapc), has written on the feminist movement in Chile and feminist STS (Science and Technology Studies) in “Feminism enacted: A/n (un)situated case to introduce (Chilean) feminist perspectives to STS folks” on Medium:  “I’m looking at a revolution from a screen. In […]

  • Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment

    Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment

    ***This blog post contains conversation of topics including sexual assault and invisible illnesses. Please engage in self-care when reading or holding discussions about this post. *** Every spring at Texas State University, the Communication Studies Department takes a week to celebrate our discipline and its range of reach by bringing in guest speakers and putting […]

  • Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment

    Identity, Intersection, Stigma, Empowerment

    ***This blog post contains conversation of topics including sexual assault and invisible illnesses. Please engage in self-care when reading or holding discussions about this post. *** Logan Carpenter (BA, Arizona State University, 2015) is a graduate student in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University. Correspondence: lac243@txstate.edu. HASTAC: https://www.hastac.org/u/logancarpenter Lauren Lee (BA, Texas […]