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Disability Accommodations: If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in a Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies event, please contact 813-974-0982 at least five (5) working days prior to the event.

Spring MA Theses Defenses

  • February 26, 12:30-2:00pm (Teams) / LJ Connolly: Breaking Binaries: Gender Non-Conforming Lesbians and the Undercurrent of Biopower on Dating Apps
  • February 28, 10-11:30am (Teams) / Megs Peterson: Personal Perspectives of Political Action: A Case Study of How Women Discuss the Black Panther Party鈥檚 Free Breakfast for School Children Program 
  • March 3, 11:00am-12:30pm (Hybrid - CMC 202T and Teams) / Charles Suor: Angst, Transgression, and Care: Transgender Community in the DIY Rock Scene of Tampa, Florida
  • March 4, 2:30-4:00pm (Hybrid - CMC 202T and Teams) / Emily Hernandez: Dancin鈥� in the Dark: Exploring Queer Joy and Belonging in Trinidad and Tobago鈥檚 SOTU Nights Rave
  • March 5, 1:30-3:00pm (Teams) / Faelyn Cowan: Care, Space, and Utopia: An Oral History of Tombolo Books鈥� Queer Comic Book Club 

To attend a Teams defense, email us to request the meeting link.

Brown Bag Series: "Criminal Medicine: Florida and the State of Trans Medicine" with Dr. Dana Ahern

March 13, 2025, 12:30-2:00pm
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link

Recently the state of Florida has been at the forefront of debates regrading transgender care in the U.S., with recent bills attacking trans people, such as prohibiting the teaching of information on gender and sexuality for students in eight grade and younger, as well as threats to revoke custody from parents who allow their children to seek gender-affirming medical care.  Analyzing bills coming out of Florida and legislative retaliations to them in places like California which has defined itself as a sanctuary state, alongside the major figures in these debates 鈥� politicians, parents, and medical providers 鈥� this paper critically examines the management of access to medicine as a mode of state violence and control.

Dr. Dana Ahern鈥檚 research primarily utilizes digital archives and oral histories to explore the technological development and utilization of transgender medicine over the past century, particularly between and across the United States and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining USF, Ahern completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity where he taught classes in queer and trans studies. Ahern鈥檚 teaching and research interests primarily revolve around intersections of queer and trans studies, disability studies, and feminist science and technology studies. 

Transnational Care Book Club Event

  • March 26, 2025, 1:00鈥�3:00PM EST, via Teams: Online Film Screening and Discussion: Named Voices

  • April 11, 2025, 12:00鈥�2:00PM EST, via Teams: Teaching-Oriented Roundtable: 鈥淭eaching Audre Lorde鈥檚 鈥楴otes on a Trip to Russia,鈥欌�� facilitated by Dr. Tatsiana Shchurko

For more information about these and other Transnational Care Book Club events, visit the book club page.

Sponsored by the 国产短视频Department of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; 国产短视频Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies; 国产短视频Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies; and the 国产短视频Humanities Institute.

50th Anniversary of WGS

The Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary during the 2022-2023 academic year. Visit our 50th Anniversary page, to view more information about the 50th Anniversary Events.