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Follow the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Facebook or Instagram for event postings. Virtual events will be held in Microsoft Teams, which is available for use in your web browser or can be downloaded as an app here. Past department events can be viewed on out Past Events page.
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.
Quilting Our History: An Exhibit of Quilts by Lauren Austin
February 12, 2024 through September 23, 2024
Located in CMC 202 (Tampa Campus)
For more information about the exhibit and related events (workshop and public lecture), visit the exhibit website. The exhibit has been extended through September.
The exhibit is open during normal business hours. If you'd like to schedule a viewing, email us.
Brown Bag Series: Piper Thomson, "Gender Fantasy and Conservative Politics of Annihilation"
September 12, 2024, 12:30-2:00pm
CMC 202T
Hybrid Event - RSVP for Teams Link
Anti-trans legislation has swept across state legislatures like wildfire. These laws have restricted access to healthcare and increased the stigma the trans community faces in everyday life. This project seeks to both understand the impacts of these laws on trans people’s day-to-day lives as well as how members of the trans community support each other and resist this repression.
Piper Thomson is a sociologist currently pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Virginia. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology from Kenyon College and the University of Virginia, respectively. As a transgender scholar, Piper’s research interests focus on trans studies, queer theory, cultural sociology, and feminist thought, reflecting her positionality at the crossroads of both immense privilege and painful exclusion. Thus, the agenda that animates her research and writing is in rendering a more complete picture of trans life so that both academic and nonacademic audiences may more accurately think with transnes—as opposed to about it—as a valuable way of being-in-the-world. A theorist at heart, her work draws heavily from the tradition of critical phenomenology to center people’s first person accounts of the world and their experience moving through it as the primary source of data for her intellectual investigations.
Lauren Austin Lecture: Care & Joy Through Art: A Protection Blueprint
September 23, 2024, 3:30-4:45pm
MSC 3705
Quilting our History Closing Reception with special guest Lauren Austin
September 23, 2024, 6:00-7:30pm
CMC 202
Care & Joy in Precarious Times Conference
February 21, 2025
TECO Hall
For conference information, including the Call for Submissions, visit the conference page.
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.