Texas A&M eliminates women’s and gender studies degree program
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-am-women-gender-studies
#TexasAM Ends #WomensStudies & Overhauls Classes Over #Race & #Gender
[this on top of the bizarre ban on the #philosophy department from teaching #Plato — seriously]
New policies limiting the teaching of race & gender issues led administrators & professors to change hundreds of courses. #School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation. [ya think?]
#BrainDrain #college #university #education #FarRight #extremism #racism #sexism #heterosexism #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/texas-am-gender-ethnic-womens-studies-academic-freedom.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Catawba scholar Brooke M. Bauer's "Becoming Catawba" chronicles the role of #Catawba women over 3 centuries, 1540–1840, e.g. Sally New River, a cultural leader who managed 500 acres of land for her community
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #AmericanHistory #IndigenousStudies #NativeAmericans #WomensStudies
A GLORIOUS MULTI-GENRE COLLECTION of memoir, essays, and poetry exploring the lives of Black women as a group, as individuals, and in families. The clarity of Jeffers’s insights and the power of her words will leave you breathless. A MINUS
#book #Books #bookstodon #bookreview #bookreviews #nonfiction #memoir #memoirs #essays #poetry #Blackhistory #BlackWomen #womanism #history #sociology #Blackstudies #womensstudies
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women...
I mean every institution offering a bachelor’s degree offers courses & majors in #WomensStudies. But don’t tell Trump that.
The cultural association between women & #madness in 19th & 20th c is analysed through the lives of individual women in the US & Britain in #History & #EnglishLiterature in this book by Leslie Ann Harper
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1893560422
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #CulturalStudies #WomensStudies