CSWS Annual Review

The cover of Maya Gonzalez's picture book, "When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times"

Illustrating Resilience: Children’s Picture Books for Oppressive Times

How might children’s literature help us respond to our current political climate? While all literature is politically (or at the very least, ideologically) motivated, a picture book that exemplifies political content for children is Maya Gonzalez’s When a Bully is President: Truth and Creativity for Oppressive Times. Not only is it an indirect comment on Trump but it also reframes US history through bully discourse in its reflections on colonization, slavery, war, and xenophobia. When read as political texts, picture books have the potential to inspire collective action or activism.
Bryant Taylor invites attendees to play a Bingo icebreaker at the 2023 New Faculty Welcome Reception / photo by Jack Liu

Q&A: Bryant Taylor

by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English

For two years, Bryant Taylor, a PhD candidate in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, had a special appointment working as a Graduate Employee (GE) on our 50th anniversary events and projects. I had the opportunity to chat with Bryant about his time at CSWS before he left for a summer internship on an African American archival history project at Harvard University.

2023 Annual Review

  • Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
  • Haunting Ecologies by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
  • An Invitation from the Director of CSWS by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
  • Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power
  • New Faculty Reception
Publication Year
2023

2011 Annual Review

  • Capitalism, Politics, and Gender: A Suicide in Shanghai by Bryna Goodman, director of Asian Studies and executive director of the UO Confucius Institute for Global China Studies
  • Studying Bollywood: An Interview with Sangita Gopal
  • Heavenly Bodies: Tablighi Jama’at and the Regulation of Women in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim, UO anthropology professor and associate director of CSWS
  • Pakistan: Gathering Stories of Women in the Valley of SWAT by Anita Weiss, UO professor, head of the Department of International Studies
  • Female Stars Are Born: Gender, Lighting Technology, and Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao, associate professor, East Asian Languages and Literature
Publication Year
2011

2013 Annual Review

  • 40th Special Section: Feminist Futures
  • Funding Feminist Futures by Carol Stabile, Director, CSWS
  • For Love of a Feminist: Jane Grant, William Harris, and the ‘Fund’ by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, Department of English (Folklore), UO
  • Celebrating Forty Years: Anniversary Event details
  • Research Can Serve as the Anchor for Feminism’s Future by Áine Duggan, President, National Council on Research for Women
Publication Year
2013

2014 Annual Review

  • An Interview with Michael Hames-García, Director, CSWS
  • The Collaboration Continuum by Michael Hames-García
  • Collaboration through Conversation by Jenée Wilde, PhD candidate, Department of English (Folklore)
  • Plugging into the Recharge Station by Mary E. Wood, Professor, Department of English
  • Creating Visibility for Feminist Philosophy by Megan Burke, PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy
Publication Year
2014