GWSS Winter Colloquium: "The Edge of Dreaming," featuring Liz Zhihe Zeng
Presenter: Liz Zhihe Zeng (She/They), GWSS PhD Student
Moderator: Vivyne Chen, GWSS PhD Student
This presentation is an introduction to Liz’s doctoral research through the framework of her upcoming candidacy exam. "The Edge of Dreaming" discusses the landscape of love in Chinese women media fandoms across spatial-temporalities and beyond bodies/physicality.
It looks at specific roleplay and cosplay fan practices to: historicize emergences of cultures and their subjectivities that staged a transnational approach to images and narratives in media works; focus on gender-crossing and queer intimate performance to examine affective labor and the precariousness of emotional and embodied work; extends to reiterations and reimaginations about modern discourse of love and labor under globalizing capital and neoliberal influences, moving from intimate desires to the political economy.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110-G. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
Primary: Alma Thomas, Sisterhood and the Revolutionary Quality of Light with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ forthcoming book of poetic indexes, this interactive poetic lecture explores the life, teaching, and artwork of color theorist Alma Thomas. Engaging themes of audience, intimacy, abstract expressionist art, and the dynamic relationship between Black women’s creativity and the process of being Earth, the lecture invites participants into a rhythmic dialogue of form, meaning, and presence.
About the Speaker:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (author, poet) is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She/they are the author of several transformative books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde and the award-winning Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. As the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, she/they help steward an intergenerational, experiential living library celebrating Black LGBTQ brilliance.
Registration Open!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. To request disability accommodations, contact the UW Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Seattle Town Hall & Livestream.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. WI26 Feminism NOW!: A conversation series with the GWSS RSO - In trans*it: the violence of ‘place’ and anti-immigrant policing
The GWSS RSO invites you to the winter installment of our quarterly conversation series, Feminism NOW! This quarter’s discussion, Trans*it, explores themes of movement, place, and the politics of belonging.
Across public discourse in the United States and globally, debates around borders, citizenship, gender, and embodiment have intensified. How do governments and institutions define who belongs — and where? How are ideas about “fixing” people in place connected to immigration policy, gender regulation, and broader systems of control?
Drawing on the work of Latine, migrant, feminist, and queer scholars, this interactive workshop will introduce key ideas from trans* studies and invite participants into collective conversation. Together, we will consider: What does it mean to be “placed,” and why does placement matter politically? , How are immigration enforcement and gender regulation connected? , How can trans* studies help us imagine life beyond rigid borders of citizenship, confinement, and identity? …
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 162. Accessibility Contact: gwssadvs@uw.edu. Event Types: Student Activities. Workshops.
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Symposium | Partition & Solidarity : Anticolonial Struggles in the Colonial Present
Join us on this one-day symposium where scholars and activists will gather to engage in conversations about anticolonial struggles of the past and the present. We will organize sessions devoted to specific moments and movements, but our overriding objective will be to find unexpected convergences and critical insights to advance ongoing struggles against empire. Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialism. We can see that ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence exploding around the world today—from Palestine to Minnesota and beyond.
How might we forge diasporic imaginaries and solidarity movements to contest that colonial world order toward collective liberation?
In anticipation of the conference, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is hosting a reading group focused on the book by Adam Hanieh - Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso, 2024).
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB Lyceum. Accessibility Contact: hbcls@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM.
Graduate Certificate Recruitment Lunch
Join us for a Recruitment Lunch to learn more about the Feminist Studies and Sexuality & Queer Studies Graduate Certificate programs at GWSS! 🌟
Whether you're already in a certificate program or just curious about adding one, this is a great chance to ask questions, connect with faculty and fellow students, and explore how a certificate might complement your graduate work.
Already in the program? Bring a friend or classmate who might be interested - all graduate students are welcome. We hope to see you there!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Padelford Hall (PDL). Campus room: PDL B110-G. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Sexuality & Queer Studies Lecture: "The Value Turn in Queer Theory" with Petrus Liu
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Sexuality & Queer Studies lecture featuring Petrus Liu. Professor Liu will be presenting on 'The Value Turn in Queer Theory.' Please find the event details below:
Description: In recent years, queer theorists have increasingly turned to value as an analytic for exploring marginalized bodies' structural relations to political and economic institutions. In this talk, Petrus Liu explores an unresolved tension between two contradictory accounts of value—a subjectivizing power that generates intelligible categories of personhood and an impersonal algorithm of capitalist accumulation and extraction. By tracing unexpected continuities between contemporary queer debates and Marx’s original reading of the value-form, this talk proposes a dialectical, historically grounded model of “queer value” for understanding how identities are shaped by systems of power and exchange.
Bio: Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, and of Women’s, Gender, and…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: CMU 120. Accessibility Contact: gwss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Pride on Tap: Queer Alumni & Allies Meet Up
GWSS is excited to share this upcoming Winter Husky Social hosted by the UW Alumni Association in partnership with the Q Center and the Q Faculty, Staff & Allies affinity group.
Join fellow Huskies for an informal evening of connection and community at Stoup Brewing on Capitol Hill. Your first drink is on them!
🎟 $10 for UWAA members
🎟 $15 general public
(Registration includes one free drink ticket. Additional food & drinks available for purchase.)
All are welcome.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: jberry3@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Stoup Brewing.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Duke Feminist Theory Workshop
The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW) has, since its first gathering in 2007, promoted diverse dialogue among scholars of feminist theory and fostered a vibrant intellectual community. To that end, the workshop brings together internationally recognized keynote speakers and emerging young scholars to engage in lively and focused debate.
Following last year's hybrid structure, this year’s FTW will be held in person at Duke University on March 20 and 21, 2026. Remote participants will have the opportunity to watch keynote lectures, pose questions, and participate in remote breakout seminars. FTW is proud to continue offering this event with no registration fees, making it accessible to anyone who can attend. However, health, space, labor, and financial considerations require limiting both remote and in-person registration.
, The Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), which is in its nineteenth year, offers a unique opportunity for internationally recognized faculty and young scholars to engage in sustained dialogue…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: GSFS@duke.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Special Events.
Friday, March 20, 2026 – Saturday, March 21, 2026.
Duke University Penn Pavilion.
For more info visit readymag.website. Memorial Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Spring. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, May 25, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.