Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
EVENTS CALENDAR
The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program encourages attendance at varied events.
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Club Meetings | ONGOING
Back to topWGSS networks and coordinates clubs that focus in part on gender and sexuality equity. Please check in on GetInvolved for more information on group activities and plans.
- The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Club focuses on equity for women.
- The Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) focuses on equity for LGBTQ+ individuals.
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Friday, October 17, 2025 • 7:00 pm The Harriet Kenderdine Lecture
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March 25, 4-7pm: Green Dot Violence Prevention Training for Student Leaders
Back to topJoin Dr. Fredericka Schmitt (Sociology) and Margo Thorwart (Center for Health Education and Promotion) to get trained on Violence Prevention.
The goal of Green Dot is to implement a bystander intervention strategy that prevents and reduces power-based personal violence. Power-based violence includes: sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. A Green Dot is a behavior, choice, or action that promotes safety for everyone on campus."No one has to do everything, but everyone has to do something."
For more information contact CHEP.
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Fall 2024 Events Archive
September 9, 6pm: Name Change Clinic
Name Change Clinic at the Transgender Action Group (TAG) Meeting. 6pm in SMC 18.
Angry Gay Grandpa will talk about or show his new PSA on Trans acceptance. 7pm.Email the TAG president at mailto:elliot.simcoe@millersville.edu for more information.
October 8, 7pm: The Body Politic: Women, Digital Harassment, and Democratic LifeJoin us in the Winter Center for the Harriet Kenderdine Lecture at 7pm in the Biemesderfer Auditorium to hear Dr. Sarah Sobieraj discuss her work on women, politics, online environments, and democracy.
Sarah Sobieraj is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on US political culture, extreme incivility, digital abuse and harassment, and the mediated information environment. Her book, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines the impact of identity-based digital abuse on women’s participation in social and political discourse.
Sobieraj is also the author of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility(Oxford University Press, 2014) with Jeff Berry, and Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism (NYU Press, 2011). She also edited (w/ D. Rohlinger) the Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2023), and (w/ R. Boatright, D. Young, and T. Schaffer) A Crisis of Civility?: Political Discourse and Its Discontents (Routledge, 2019).
Sobieraj’s most recent journal articles can be found in Information, Communication & Society, Social Problems, PS: Political Science & Politics, Poetics, and Political Communication. Her work has been featured in venues such as The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Politico, Vox, CNN, PBS, NPR, the American Prospect, National Review, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and Salon.
https://millersville.edu/kenderdine
October 29, 4pm: Gender Issues and the 2024 Election
In this open forum, Dr. Frederika Schmitt (Sociology) and Dr. Nivedita Bagchi (Government) will share their expertise with regard to proposed political policies related to gender, including issues like no-fault divorce, women's health, and gender-affirming care.
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Contact Info
Contact for EventsDr. Caleb Corkery for Carter Woodson
Jackie Aliotta for International Women's Day
wehearyou@ywcalancaster.org for YWCA Hotline Training