Features:
- “A Year in Review: 2017-18,” by Dena Zaldúa, Operations Manager
- Spotlight on New Feminist Scholars
- “A conversation with Walidah Imarisha,” interview by Alice Evans, Michelle McKinley, and Dena Zaldúa
Faculty Research:
- “Counterblast: excerpt from O. Henry winner,” by Marjorie Celona, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing Program
- “No Child Should Long for Their Own Image,” by Ernesto Martínez, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies
- “Lesbian Oral History Project,” by tova stabin, University Communications
- “Black Sexual Sanctuaries,” by Shoniqua Roach, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- “Unrest in the Aisles: Eileen Otis Studies Labor Unrest in Chinese Walmarts,” by Emily Halnon, University Communications
- “Abuse, Mental Illness, and Girls’ Immune Health,” by Michelle Byrne, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychology
Graduate Student Research:
- “Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women’s Liberation,” by Laura Strait, Jane Grant Fellow, School of Journalism & Communication
- “Uncovering the Science in Science Fiction,” by Angela Rovak, Department of English
- “Feeling Disposable: Exploring the Emotional Structure of Precarious Migrant Labor,” by Lola Loustaunau, Department of Sociology
- “Magic & Power: Black Knowledge and Marriage Education in the Postwar American South,” by Lacey M. Guest, Department of History
- “Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?” by Margaret Bostrom, Department of English
- “Concussion: Physiological Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Women and Men,” by Alia Yasen, Department of Human Physiology
- “Falls & Fatigue: The Effect of Mental Fatigue in Postural Stability in Women and Men,” by Amanda Morris, Department of Human Physiology
- “Developing a Disability Legal Consciousness: Racism & Ableism in Special Education Advocacy,” by Katie Warden, Department of Sociology
Highlights from the Academic Year:
- “Laila Lalami: The Border and Its Meaning,” panelist commentary by Miriam Gershow and Elizabeth Bohls, Department of English
- “Queer History Lecture: Regina Kunzel,” by Kenneth Surles, Anniston Ward, and Ryan Murphy
- News & Updates
- Looking at Books
Articles

A Year in Review: 2018–19
by Dena Zaldúa, Operations Manager, CSWS
Last fall, we were still reeling from the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the University of Virginia campus when the school year began. Few of us in the CSWS family could believe this was really happening. If only that had been our nadir. During the 2017-18 academic year, we have seen children separated from their parents at the border and incarcerated in cages.

A Conversation with Walidah Imarisha
Interviewed by Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor; Michelle McKinley, CSWS Director and Professor, School of Law; and Dena Zaldúa, CSWS Operations Manager

Counterblast: Excerpt from O. Henry Winner
by Marjorie Celona, Assistant Professor, UO Creative Writing Program
A 2018 O. Henry Award winner, Marjorie Celona’s short story “Counterblast” first appeared in The Southern Review Permission to reprint this excerpt was given by the author. You can read the story in its entirety in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (September 2018, Anchor).

“No Child Should Long for Their Own Image”: Literature & Visual Media for Queer Latinx Youth
by Ernesto J. Martínez, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

Lesbian Oral History Project to Become Part of UO collections
by tova stabin, University Communications
The history of Eugene’s lesbian community from the 1960s through the 1990s will be kept alive through video interviews and archival documents of more than 140 women taking part in the UO’s Lesbian Oral History project.
Judith Raiskin, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Linda Long, curator of manuscripts in Special Collections and University Archives in UO Libraries, are conducting the project as part of the library’s effort to preserve Oregon history.

Black Sexual Sanctuaries
by Shoniqua Roach, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Unrest in the Aisles: Eileen Otis Studies Labor Unrest in Chinese Walmarts
by Emily Halnon, University Communications, reprinted from Oregon Quarterly (Spring 2018)
The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She was immediately struck by how greatly the Chinese version of the massive retailer differed from its American counterpart.

Abuse, Mental Illness, and Girls’ Immune Health
by Michelle Byrne, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Psychology
What does mental illness have to do with adolescent girls’ immune health? How can we better understand the development of girls who experience abuse? Are there health disparities for girls, especially girls that experience childhood adversity and depression? Our project asked these questions in order to fully explore how girls’ physical and mental health may be linked.

Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women’s Liberation
By Laura Strait, Doctoral Candidate, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication

Uncovering the Science in Science Fiction: My Time at the Octavia E. Butler Archive
by Angela Rovak, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English
Even before she turned ten years old, Octavia E. Butler knew she was destined to be a writer. In an interview with The New York Times in 2000, Butler recalls that,

Feeling Disposable: Exploring the Emotional Structure of Precarious Migrant Labor
by Lola Loustaunau, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
“One time I hurt my back, because the work there is really heavy, and I remember she [the human resource director] made me cry, gave a warning and wouldn’t let me go to the doctor, and I felt so bad,” said Mercedes, a bakery worker, while seated on her couch. It’s an icy winter morning and we have been talking for a while. Although I had asked about work injuries the answer that Mercedes gave me went beyond stating that she had, in fact, injured her back while working.

“Magic & Power”: Black Knowledge and Marriage Education in the Postwar American South
by Lacey M. Guest, Master’s Student, Department of History, and Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?”: Feminisms, Fitness, and the Politics of Wellness and Welfare in the 1980s
By Margaret Bostrom, PhD candidate, Department of English

Concussion: Physiological Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Women and Men
by Alia Yasen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Physiology

Falls & Fatigue: The Effect of Mental Fatigue in Postural Stability in Women and Men
by Amanda Morris, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Physiology
At conferences, I am often asked, “Why are you interested in studying older adults?” My answer is simple; I believe aging is the future.

Developing a Disability Legal Consciousness: Racism & Ableism in Special Education Advocacy
by Katie Warden, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories
Reported by Alice Evans

Panel Discussion: Laila Lalami’s Pulitzer finalist novel, "The Moor’s Account"
Commentary presented by Miriam Gershow, Novelist & Associate Director of Composition, Department of English

“In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Coauthored by Kenneth Surles, Anniston Ward, and Ryan Murphy