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WGS South is one of the oldest Women’s & Gender Studies associations in the U.S., serving AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, WV, & VA.
https://wgssouth.org/
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"Project 2026 lays out a government redesigned to control women’s bodies, erase LGBTQ+ lives, dismantle civil rights protections and roll back decades of hard-won progress."
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
When the Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one wi...
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Join us in celebrating fifty years...and strategizing feminist scholarship & activism in the south for the next fifty.

Proposals Due Tomorrow!

#highered #edusky #academicsky #gradstudent #academia #community #activism #southern #scholarship #feminism #intersectionality #disability #accessibilty
December 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's getting to be that time!

Have you written (and actually submitted) your WGS South 2026 conference proposal yet?

Submissions are Due Monday, Dec 15th! wgssouth.org/2026cfps

#AcademicSky #edusky #highered #feminist #wgs #crt #queerstudies #disability #undergraduate #gradstudents #trans #lgbtq
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The SPLC and Read Freely Alabama recently partnered to host educational events across the state, offering guidance and tools for protecting libraries and resisting censorship. 📚

Here are 10 actions you can take in your own community to oppose book bans: https://bit.ly/4q5JVZd
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tenure-Track Job Alert! Maryville College (TN) is hiring an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Review of applications will begin on December 10th. tinyurl.com/MCSociology

#highered #sociology #sociologymajor #race #gender #inequality #Academicsky #edusky #gradstudents #academicjobs #higheredjobs
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
WGS South 2026 "Feminist Futurities" CFP Deadline Extended to December 15th!

Now you have time to get that proposal together so you can join us at Wake Forest University!

wgssouth.org/2026conference

#wgs #feminism #intersectionality #highered #academicsky #disability #lgbtq #bipoc #education
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!
Call for papers: Publishing Research Quarterly – Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share the call for papers for a special issue of the international academic journal Publishing Research Quarterly on the topic of environmental sustainability and …
literaryminded.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Less than one week to get your applications in! #DisabledInSTEM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Today's the last day to submit for our end-of-year publication lists. We're soliciting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters by contingent historians with a 2025 pub date! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South"

This is your friendly reminder that submissions for WGS South 2026 are due Dec. 1st! Check out our caucus cfps on our website! wgssouth.org/2026conference
#AcademicSky #edusky #gradstudents #highered #wgs
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Students, hark! This cfp is for you!

"Reclaiming Our Future: A Call for Papers from Young Leaders, Writers, and Activists"

Join us at Wake Forest University in March!
wgssouth.org/2026conference

#academicsky #studentleadership #wgs #highered #southernstudies #activism #intersectionality #hope
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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We all must work to create safer spaces in schools and communities for trans and nonbinary youth. 🏳️‍⚧️

Understanding gender-affirming care is an essential step, and the willingness to learn will help counter disinformation that endangers LGBTQ+ youth. #LGBTQRights
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Dreaming Beyond Survival: Radical Imagination and Futures of Liberation for Southern BIPOC Persons and Communities" Now that's a title! Our BIPOC Caucus invites you to tell us what dreaming beyond survival looks like! Join us in March for our 2026 conference, Feminist Futurities!
#academicsky #wgs
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Raise a glass to freedom!

Today, the Supreme Court rejected a petition to overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

#lgbtq #gaymarriage #lovei̇slove #queerpride #lovewins🌈
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
CFP: The daily attacks on disabled lives we experience/witness are exhausting, yet we trudge on, collectively, dreaming and actively creating different futures for ourselves and for those we love.

Submissions Due Dec. 1st, 2025.
wgssouth.org/2026conference

#disability #accessibility #academicsky
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Check out our 2026 LGBTQ Caucus CFP: "Trans, Intersex, and Queer Freedom Dreams and Futurities"

If you have something to say, let us hear it! Join us at Wake Forest University this March!

Submissions Due Dec. 1st wgssouth.org/2026conference

#lgbtq #queerstudies #southernstudies #academicsky
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We're proud to announce the CFP for our 50th Anniversary & 2026 conference: "Feminist Futurities: 50 More Years of Feminist Scholarship and Activism in the South"

Check out the details on our website!
Submissions due Dec. 1st! wgssouth.org/2026conference

#AcademicSky #edusky #highered #wgs
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear

Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?
August 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank goodness for storytellers.
i struggle to articulate that it's not that ive ever been passionate about any job I've have. rather, im passionate about the stories material records tell us about the past and honoring the humanity within those stories. i just have jobs that, to the untrained eye, align with that passion
June 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Today is International Museum Day, organized by the International Council of Museums. This year's theme is "The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities" which invites people to reimagine the role of museums in a time of constant change.
International Museum Day - International Council of Museums
Each year since 1977, ICOM has organised International Museum Day, which represents a unique moment for the international museum community.
icom.museum
May 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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In Georgia, women’s bodies are merely human incubators. Just ask Adriana Smith’s family.

My latest piece on Substack

katiephang.substack.com/p/just-a-ves...
Just a Vessel: Georgia Keeps Legally Dead Pregnant Woman on Life Support
Georgia's fetal heartbeat law proves the CONTROL and the CRUELTY have always been the point
katiephang.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM