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People attending a LGBT pride parade on June 30, 2013 in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey.
March 9, 2021
via YaleNews When Yale faculty member Evren Savcı was writing her dissertation on queer politics in her birth country of Turkey a decade ago, she found there was little...
January 19, 2021
WGSS Assistant Professor Evren Savcı’s book Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam is just out from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/...
CLAGS Announces Professor Roderick Ferguson as the Winner of the 2020 Kessler Award
October 5, 2020
From the Center for LGBTQ  Studies at CUNY’s Graduate Center (CLAGS) website: CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY’s Graduate Center, is proud to announce...
September 2, 2020
A WGSS Certificate Alum, Erin L. Thomas is on the Fortune 40 under 40 in Tech list: https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/erin-thomas/! In her previous position at Paradigm,...
June 18, 2020
In the Fight for Policing Reform, LGBT Is a Threadbare Alliance Pride festivities attempt every year to reinforce the idea of an LGBT community, but when it comes to views...
June 1, 2020
We, as WGSS faculty members at Yale, stand in solidarity with the protests against the murder of George Floyd, and against state-sanctioned racism and racist police and...
October 3, 2019
Transgender individuals who undergo gender-affirming surgery are significantly less likely to seek mental health treatment for depression and anxiety disorders or attempt ...