
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
By Laura Strait, Doctoral Candidate, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication
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.
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.
by Shoniqua Roach, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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.
by Ernesto J. Martínez, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies
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).
Interviewed by Alice Evans, CSWS Managing Editor; Michelle McKinley, CSWS Director and Professor, School of Law; and Dena Zaldúa, CSWS Operations Manager
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.
by Andrew Robbins, PhD Candidate, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication
With funding from a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant, I was able to travel to the GLBT Historical Society Archive in San Francisco in November 2018 to explore the unsorted collection of “Tranny Fest,” the original name of what is now known as the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. The collection was donated by the festival’s original co-founders, media lawyer Alex Austin and late filmmaker Christopher Lee, who started the festival in 1997.