Center for Women and Gender Equity Research Seminar Series

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  Protecting Whom: Women's Sport and Trans Inclusion

  Vikki Krane

  Join the Center for Women and Gender Equity for our Research Seminar with Vikki Krane! We have heard the calls to protect women's sport which has resulted in proposed legislation around the country attempting to ban or limit trans participation in sport. Much of the rationale for excluding transgender individuals from participating in sport are based on cultural narratives about sex and gender rather than sound science. Accordingly, much proposed and enacted policy appears to be created without a thorough understanding of the lived experiences of trans athletes and mimics cultural assumptions about testosterone, which are not always supported by research. In this presentation, I will juxtapose common concerns forwarded by groups advocating to protect women's sport with scholarly knowledge about transgender athletes.

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  The Sex Panic of the 1790s and the Politicization of Women's Education in the Early American Republic

  Rebecca Stanwick

  Join the Center for Women and Gender Equity for our Research Seminar with Rebecca Stanwick! Rebecca is an Assistant Teaching Professor - Reference and Instruction Librarians at Jerome Library. She is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Education at the University of Toledo writing her dissertation on sex panics, gender construction, and women's education in early America. This presentation seeks to understand how the conceptualization of women's education in the nineteenth century, with its emphasis on domestic education, was a deliberate and direct response to the sex panic of the 1790s by elite white men to solidify political power and subvert feminist claims of female equality.

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  Disabled Sexual Assault Survivors on College Campuses

  Val Erwin

  Val Erwin is a PhD candidate in Higher Education studying the ways disabled and gender policy affect equity on colleges and universities. Her presentation will focus on her dissertation work focuses on the experiences on Disabled survivors on college campuses.

  Disabled people have a very high rate of sexual violence with a recent study saying that before college 52.3% of disabled college students had already experienced sexual victimization. Disabled survivors on college campuses are a group that has not been studied often. A report from the National Council on Disability in 2017 said that on college campus around 50% of colleges have no way to report sexual violence by disabled students because of the inaccessibility of the reporting process.

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  Developing a Measure of Faculty Ally Behaviors

  Ellen M. Broido

  Faculty allyship for other faculty members is critical but rarely studied. Dr. Broido will share the work of BGSU's Allies team to develop an instrument to measure white faculty members transformative ally behaviors. Adapting Solórzano and Delgado Bernal's (2001) typology of student resistance and Hardiman et al.'s (2007) model of multiple levels of oppression, Broido sought to measure behaviors associated with white faculty members' transformative allyship for racially minoritized faculty peers and the extent to which white faculty members challenged institutional and individual racism in academia.

  Broido will share the process of developing the scale and initial findings and discuss the equally important process of and challenges in assessing allyship from the perspective of those in minoritized groups.

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  Gender, Communication, & Representations on Elected School Boads

  Nicole Kalaf-Hughes

  Dr. Kalaf-Hughes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at BGSU whose research interests lie at the intersection of American political institutions and representation, with her work focusing on how institutional incentives affect the behavior of elected officials at the local and federal levels. Her recent projects explore the role of race, ethnicity, and gender in representation, collaboration, and policymaking in the U.S Congress. Her research agenda also includes pedagogical work on student engagement, and she is the recipient of the American Political Science Association CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation. Her work has appeared in journals including Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Public Policy, Policy Studies Journal, Politics & Gender, and the Journal of Political Science Education.

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  Autistic Gender & Sexuality in Everything's Gonna Be Okay

  Jinx Mylo

  Jinx Mylo analyzes the representations of autistic characters in the television show Everything's Gonna Be Okay in relation to gender and sexuality. In contrast to previous screen representations, the four autistic characters provide a variety of gender expressions and sexual orientations, challenging the stereotypes that perpetuate the idea of autism being limited to heterosexual men. Issues explored include attitudes toward autistic sexual consent and agency, sexual experimentation, and the impacts of communication norms on romantic relationships.

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  Racism as a Misandric Aggression

  Tommy Curry

  Join the Center for Women and Gender Equity for our Research Seminar with Dr. Tommy Curry! Dr. Curry is a professor of philosophy in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, whose research interests are in Africana Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition. Dr. Curry's presentation will draw from his book chapter on "Racism as a Misandric Aggression," in which he argues for an understanding of racism and dehumanization having primarily male targets, looking at wars and genocides as the basis of this assertion.

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  Homos, Heteros, Hard Bodies, Oh Myyy: Straight Performance and Queer Interventions in Marvel Comics

  Bryan Bove

  Join us for our Research Seminar with Bryan Bove, a PhD candidate in the American Culture Studies program and graduate assistant in the CWGE, CVPE, and the Office of Title IX.

  Bryan will be presenting a chapter of his dissertation, which explores the intersection of self, society, and queerness-as-illness in comics through the lens of queer/disability studies. Specifically, Bryan will analyze gender performance and queer interventions in Marvel's X-Force series, contextualized in autoethnographic experiences.

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  sexing the scouts

  Sarah Rainey-Smithback

  Join us for our Research Seminar with Dr. Sarah Rainey Smithback, Associate Professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program! In this presentation, Dr. Rainey-Smithback examines how gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation implicitly and explicitly shape the meaning and exercise of citizenship in scouting.

  Dr. Rainey-Smithback draws on interviews with scouts, leaders, and parents to show how scouts enact this global vision of citizenship through projects and badges, suggesting that the global citizen embodied by scouts is diverse and often contradictory, sometimes challenging, and other times replicating, nationalist and colonialist agendas.

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  Theorizing Non-Translation Through the Lens of Queer Studies

  Remy Attig

  In this seminar, Dr. Remy Attig, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies & Spanish at BGSU, will discuss “cislation,” a term he proposes to refer to the existence of a text solely within the language and culture whence it emerged, which may be preferred over translation for any number of reasons. Attig will explore some of those motivations and workshop with participants how the notion of cislation might enrich the larger fields of translation studies and queer studies. Dr. Attig’s work draws from postcolonial and queer theories in translation studies, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies to explore activist and social justice movements in these communities. This seminar will be descriptive, theoretical, and creative—you won’t want to miss it!