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Joint Statement from the Department of American Studies and Women, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies regarding the recent treatment of Student Protesters

Our academic units stand with student protesters and their right to
politically-motivated free speech and right to assembly. In the context of our
convocation ceremony, we gather to celebrate all of our students and their
multi-year achievement in moving forward to their academic and personal goals.
Our gathering celebrates the achievements of our students. We do not condone the
university’s upper administration’s harassment of students at the UNM Palestine
Encampment or the use of excessive force and pepper spray on students in and
near the Student Union Building.

We hope that our administration will recognize these students’ actions for what
they are, acts of political speech that exist in a long history of such speech,
just a few past examples of which include the Civil Rights Movement and the
student movement against the Vietnam war in the 1950s and 1960s. Likewise, we
look forward to a future in which these students will be supported by our
university and not penalized with overly harsh and punitive responses.

This statement is given in the context of the Faculty and Staff Statement of
Solidarity with UNM Palestine Encampment.


WHAT IS WOMEN, GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES AT UNM?

What is Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies?

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary field of
knowledge production that centers analyses of women, gender, and sexuality,
considered intersectionally with race, Indigeneity, class, age, nation, and
ability.

From the National Women Studies Association:

“Women’s studies has its roots in the student, civil rights, and women’s
movements of the 1960s and 70s. In its early years the field’s teachers and
scholars principally asked, ‘Where are the women?’ Today that question may seem
an overly simple one, but at the time few scholars considered gender as a lens
of analysis, and women’s voices had little representation on campus or in the
curriculum.

Today the field’s interrogation of identity, power, and privilege go far beyond
the category ‘woman.’ Drawing on the feminist scholarship of U.S. and Third
World women of color, women’s studies has made the conceptual claims and
theoretical practices of intersectionality, which examines how categories of
identity (e.g., sexuality, race, class, gender, age, ability, etc.) and
structures of inequality are mutually constituted and must continually be
understood in relationship to one another, and transnationalism, which focuses
on cultures, structures and relationships that are formed as a result of the
flows of people and resources across geopolitical borders, foundations of the
discipline.”

Here at UNM, we are fortunate enough to have one of the oldest programs in the
country. After years of organizing across faculty, students, and staff, the
Women Studies Program was launched in 1972. As part of the civil rights
movements of the time, Women Studies at UNM offered a radical resurgence of
feminist scholarship and activisms. In 1999, Women Studies began to offer a BA
major alongside the minor that had been offered for many years. While the
program had offered graduate courses for many years, the graduate certificate
program was officially initiated in 2006. In 2019, we changed our name from
Women Studies to Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies to reflect the current state
of our intellectual field as well as our growing investments in intersectional
queer and transgender studies.

What is Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at UNM? It is a program staffed by
award-winning faculty who create dynamic classroom spaces for diverse learning
styles. It is a program whose interdisciplinary partnerships allow it to examine
how race, Indigeneity, nation, disability, age, and more intersect with gender
and sexuality. It is the hub of feminist, queer, and transgender studies at UNM.





PHYSICAL ADDRESS

Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Humanities
425

Phone: (505) 277-3929
Fax: (505) 277-0182
Email: womenst@unm.edu

MAILING ADDRESS

Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
MSC03 2155
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

DIRECTORS

Dr. Scarlett Higgins - Program Director

Dr. Scarlett Higgins - Director of Graduate Studies, Undergraduate Director

 

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