Author: Gabrielle Newton

Race, Politics, and Social Media: A Symposium

  Given its complete saturation of our cultural and political landscape social media has quickly migrated from a utopian mode of communication and community building to a sign of the perverse marriage of capitalism, celebrity culture and narcissism; in other words, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. are now more likely to be described as problems than […]

“Battle of the Sexes” Screening and Discussion with Directors

  The 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs became the most watched televised sports event of all time. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposites sides of a binary argument, but off-court, each was fighting more personal and complex battles.  Film screening followed by Q&A with the […]

HOOCHIE Project Seeks BU Feminist Students

HOOCHIE (feminist though from BU) began in 2007 as a collective editorial project; it was revived in 2010 as a blog; and revived again in 2016 as a reader. This year we want to expand HOOCHIE into a full blown project–reader, blog, and activist group. For this we need staff editors, staff writers and event organizers! The HOOCHIE team is looking […]

Sarah Ihmoud

WGS Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-19  Dr. Sarah Ihmoud is a Postdoctoral Associate in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her fieldwork is centered in the Middle East and Latin America regions, where she uses ethnographic research methods to investigate gendered experiences of militarization and violence in colonial and conflict contexts.     Dr. Ihmoud’s current scholarship considers the relationship between […]