Department News

Kingston Book Launches: Celebrate new books and research in Black Studies

Black Studies Inauguration: Celebrate the launch of the Black Studies Program

Summer 2023 Newsletter

Jul 13, 2023

This issue features a spotlight on staff, announces a new way to buy GNDS/BLCK swag, and includes student profiles, faculty updates, and other exciting news!

Solidarity with the people of Sudan

Apr 21, 2023

We stand with the people of Sudan who want a civilian-led government and a people’s democracy with no military involvement, and all those who struggle against the global (U.S. and Western lead) military industrial complex and are building peaceful and non-violent futures.

Gender Matters March 2023 Poetry Reading

Gender Matters Speaker Series: Poetry Reading

Mar 13, 2023

The final Gender Matters Speakers Series event of the 2022-23 academic year will be a Poetry Reading from Chloé Savoie-Bernard and Juliane Okot Bitek

International Women's Day 2023

Mar 08, 2023

For International Women’s Day, Gender Studies and Black Studies are celebrating abolition! We have compiled a brief bibliography of key thinkers, inspiring ideas, and activist dreams.

Response to blackface incident

Feb 08, 2023

Gender Studies and Black Studies support black students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are living through and with the racist incidents uncovered during the AMS debate on February 2, 2023.

The Sixties: A Conversation

Jan 30, 2023

Join Milka Njoroge, Yaniya Lee, and Katherine McKittrick for a conversation about the incomplete and urgent worlds initiated during what Sylvia Wynter calls “The Sixties.” We will be thinking about books, designs, stories, and the connections between unspeakable beauty and freedo