The GWS Student Experience

Gender and Women's Studies Students in Action

Over the past six years, students in Gender and Women's Studies classes have taken an active role on and off-campus. They have: 

• Presented original research papers, documentaries, theses at Moving Worlds: A Colloquium (celebrating 100 years of women’s education at Connecticut College)
• Worked with incarcerated women at York Correctional Facility as part of GWS 295: Training for Transformation
• Organized a teach-in against bullying and homophobia on university campuses across the United States in collaboration with the LGBTQ center
• Taken a field trip to NYC to watch the Broadway play "In the Heights"
• Attended the Bryn Mawr international conference "Heritage and Hope: Women’s Education in the Global Context" to celebrate its 125 years in existence
• Joined in deliberations on Sustainable Development at the United Nations, expertly guided by noted Salvadorian human rights activist Marta Benavides
• Taken a six-day road trip with Professors Segrest and Walker-Canton from New London to New Orleans to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina close-up and to join in the rebuilding efforts
• Put in a garden on campus as part of Earth Day 2007
• Organized a conference applying human rights principles to campus sexual assault in a way that opened up spaces for dialogue and action (2008) 
• Organized performances of The Vagina Monologues for consecutive years, raising thousands of dollars for women's causes and raising consciousness about sexual assault
• Used CONNSharp grant money to work with Professor and Chair Mab Segrest on her research on the state mental hospital/asylum in Milledgeville, Georgia, as it manifests the relationship between race/class/gender/sexuality, definitions of insanity, and practices of commitment of those genuinely mentally ill, and those merely socially deviant

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