Oakton College announces Women's History Month events

The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Talent Showcase is one of the highlights of the March events

Oakton College is proud to unveil its lineup of events for Women's History Month 2024, celebrating women-identified and LGBTQIA2+ individuals, people of color, and those with transnational identities and perspectives.

Oakton Reads WGSS: Intersectional and Transnational Feminisms

The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program invites everyone to participate in a collaborative learning experience in which Oakton students, faculty and staff, and the public can engage in a series of reading discussions on intersectional and transnational feminisms.

A different Oakton class will host each session, providing various interdisciplinary perspectives on topics of gender and sexuality at the intersections of race, ethnicity and globalization. Join in this unique opportunity to engage in discussions on current global issues of gender justice.

Kristin McCartney, Humanities and Philosophy professor and Honors Program co-coordinator, will facilitate a discussion on the HIV doula’s perspectives during the pandemic times. Visit: events.oakton.edu/event/what_would_an_hiv_doula_do.

Scott McLellan, Liberal Arts lecturer, will facilitate a discussion on white feminism in the United States and juxtapose it with the Global South feminism. Visit: events.oakton.edu/event/white_feminists_and_their_glob_other.

Marian Staats, Environmental Studies co-coordinator and English professor, will facilitate a discussion on queer indigenous feminism. Visit: events.oakton.edu/event/queer_indigenous_feminism.

Valeria Benson Lira, Earth Science and Geography associate professor, will facilitate a discussion on feminist perspectives on global capitalism. Visit: events.oakton.edu/event/world_regional_geographies.

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Talent Showcase

The WGSS Talent Showcase is a collaboration between the WGSS Department, Creative Writing Program, LGBTQIA2+ Advisory Council, Performing Arts Department and the Peace and Social Justice Committee.

All pieces, including poems, essays, and songs, are prepared in the theme of liberation and are created and performed by Oakton students. Most of the featured submissions are thought pieces from women-identified and LGBTQIA2+ individuals, people of color and those with transnational identities and perspectives.

The showcase aims to use the literary and dramatic arts as a social justice tool to

amplify voices that aren’t always heard in hopes of ushering the Oakton community toward

more complex, sometimes difficult conversations and to ignite understanding, empowerment

and progress. Visit: events.oakton.edu/event/wgss_showcase.

For information about Women’s History Month or other events, please go to events.oakton.edu.