Menstrual Health & Gender Justice Working Group Recognizes Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020
Working groups fellows and students of this semester’s course taught by working group fellows have authored a series of articles and reflections on the topic of menstrual health. .
The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group has released a series of op-ed’s, articles, and reflections related to the themes of menstrual health and gender justice just in time for Menstrual Health Day 2020.
Students from the Menstrual Health course “Menstruation Gender & Rights” penned op-ed’s drawing attention to various facets of menstruation neglected in mainstream discourse. Working group director, Inga Winkler, also discusses what she’s learned from her students regarding the menstrual movement. The Spring 2020 “Menstruation Gender & Rights” course was taught by working group fellows Inga Winkler, Noémie Elhadad, Lauren Houghton, Anja Benshaul-Tolonen, and Chris Bobel and was funded by the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Award.
Course instructor and working group fellow Noémie Elhadad also recently co-authored the article “Characterizing physiological and symptomatic variation in menstrual cycles using self-tracked mobile-health data.”
Below is a full list of recent articles from the Menstrual Health working group. Be sure to also check out their blog, Periods at Columbia, for regular updates and posts from the group.
The default body is extinct. Today’s bodies menstruate., by Alexis Buncich
Characterizing physiological and symptomatic variation in menstrual cycles using self-tracked mobile-health data, by Noémie Elhadad
The COVID-19 ‘Baby Boom,’ Contraception and Why I Could Not Wait for my First ‘Quarantine Period, by Nay Elhelhou
Menstrual stigma has stained society, and schools have done nothing to stop the leak, by Ilana Hammer
Bleeding While Competing, by Julia Kepczynska
Red-Colored Cushions, by Sonya Yoonah Kim
Getting Off Red Handed: The Taboo-busting Power of Menstrual Masturbation, by Rowena Kosher
Unraveling the Menstrual Concealment Myth, by Mary Olson
A Call for Body Positive Menstrual Activism, by Lucie Paradis
The upsides of the forbidden birth control pill for unmarried women and girls, by Tasnia Shahjahan
#EmergingMenstrualVoices call for a bolder menstrual movement that’s radical, political, and holistic, by Inga Winkler
Reconsidering What is Essential: Pads Behind Bars, by Lauren Winters
Jean Howard Receives the 2020 Presidential Teaching Award
The former CSSD director and current CSSD Executive Committee member is honored for outstanding teaching by faculty.
Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities and former director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) has been selected for the 2020 Presidential Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching by Faculty. The honor is reflective of a commitment to excellent and innovative teaching as recognized by the entire Columbia community.
To learn more about Jean Howard’s work at CSSD view her past working groups at the Center below:
Reframing Gendered Violence
Engendering the Archive
Women Mobilizing Memory
Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response Video Now Available
The recent On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group webinar can now be found on the CSSD YouTube channel.
On May 6, 2020 the On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group held their first webinar entitled, “Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response,” where the group discussed the 2014-16 Ebola crisis in the context of the current corona virus pandemic. Speakers included working group members, Mary Marshall Clark, Jennifer Dohrn, Wilmot James, Susan Michaels-Strasser, Annette Mwansa Nkowane, Margaret Loma Phiri, and Victoria Rosner.
Visit the Center for the Study of Social Difference YouTube channel or the Frontline Nurses event page to view the video.
Be sure to subscribe to CSSD’s YouTube channel to stay up to date on more important conversations such as this.
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City Co-director Interviewed by MSNBC
Ana Paulina Lee discusses Brazil’s response to the coronavirus.
Ana Paulina Lee, Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City co-director, was recently interviewed by MSNBC, where she discussed Brazil’s response to the current coronavirus pandemic.
The full MSNBC segment can be viewed here.
Queer Aqui Working Group Fellow Wins Prestigious Award
Camille Robcis has been announced as a recipient of the 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Camille Robcis, Associate Professor of History and French and Queer Aqui working group fellow, has been announced as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winner. The fellowship was awarded to Professor Robcis in the field Intellectual & Cultural History.
View the full list of 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship Winners here.
CSSD Project Directors featured in the Notes on Feminism Series
Jack Halberstam and Saidiya Hartman have contributed essays to the Feminist Art Coalition project.
Queer Aqui co-director Jack Halberstam and Engendering the Archive co-director Saidya Hartman have each contributed essays to the Notes on Feminism series from the Feminist Art Coalition.
“Off Manifesto” by Jack Halberstam can be read here.
“The Plot of Her Undoing” by Saidiya Hartman can be read here.
Former CSSD Director receives 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award
Marianne Hirsch is honored for exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring.
Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and former Center for the Study of Social Difference Director, is a recipient of the 2020 Faculty Mentoring Award, which recognizes senior faculty who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring.
To learn more about the award and other recipients click here.
To learn more about Marianne Hirsch’s work at CSSD check out her past working group pages below: