Video and interviews conducted by Abbie Chacon (WGSS minor and Fairhaven major).
Interviewed students: Nicole White (WGSS minor and Anthropology major) and Mickey Mann (WGSS major).
Western Washington University’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program draws on interdisciplinary research and teaching to analyze the formation of sex, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, and ability. Our program encourages theory and praxis that critically considers global and local communities in efforts to revise, re-envision, and reimagine social change. The WGSS major provides students with the skills to critically and actively engage with the world around them. Our plan of study equips students in various ways: to understand, apply, analyze, and critique key concepts and theoretical positions in feminist, gender, sexuality, and queer studies; to assess and denaturalize identities and experiences as embedded in and produced by interlocking and intersectional systems of power and inequalities; to integrate feminist, gender and queer analysis into a variety of scholarly, social, political, creative, and activist practices.
Our new major has grown every year since we started. Please help us grow even more!
Even a small contribution will make a big difference for our WGSS students and programs. We’d love to be able to offer our students a scholarship, increased programming, and more resources.
Contributing is simple and even a small donation can make a huge different to the lives and experiences of our students.
Plus, on May 27th only, a percentage of every gift will be matched!
