By: Kate Luce Co-Editor-in-Chief Diana Greene Foster, professor at the University of California, San Francisco, led the discussion on the findings of the Turnaway Study for the Women and Gender Studies’ annual Women’s History Month lecture. Foster was the lead investigator of this study. The Turnaway Study followed just under 1,000 women throughout the United
By: Cassidy Martenson Staff Writer *TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT* The Women’s and Gender Studies department hosted the public forum event “Female sex offenders: (Mis)representations and realities” on March 5. The forum was led by Stacie Merken, assistant professor in the department of Criminal Justice, and examined the dangerous reality of female sex offenders. The forum
By: Kate Luce Co-Editor-in-Chief kmluce@iu.edu Michelle Tellèz will highlight intersections of research of activism and the U.S.-Mexico border at this year’s Gloria Kaufman Lecture Series. Due to COVID-19, this year’s lecture will be hosted through Zoom for the first time. Telléz’s work centers around transnational community formation, Chicana mothering and gendered migration. She is a
By: Kate Luce Co-Editor-in-Chief kmluce@iu.edu Corsets cinch waists and define curves, but the misconceptions bound society to believe their danger. Dr. Rebecca Gibson took on a critical look at the misconceptions on the corset during the first Women and Gender Studies forum of the semester on Friday at 12 p.m. Gibson started her talk out
Camden Chaffee Staff Writer Since the landmark Roe V. Wade Supreme Court case in 1972, abortion has become a widely debated topic in the U.S, separating the country into two sects – pro-life and pro-choice. This week, the IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center decided to tackle this subject by pairing a documentary, “Our Bodies Our
