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Maryam Sodeifi, a sociology major and women and gender studies minor, delivered a speech at the Lavender Graduation on May 17 sponsored by LGBTQ Resources and the Lambda Alumni Association. Sodeifi is a student staff member in the Women and Gender Studies Center. Click to watch video of the speech.

Women and Gender Studies celebrated the publication of "Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights" with a book signing and reception on Thursday, April 21.

The Women and Gender Studies program at George Mason University hosted the fourth annual Gender Research Conference Monday, May 9.

Poster Girl, a nominee for this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subject, premieres April 27 at George Mason University. The showing, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Johnson Center Cinema, will be followed by a discussion with Sara Nesson, the film's director, and Robynn Murray, who is featured in the film.

Toby Jenkins recently won a Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education award for her hybrid classroom-experiential course, NCLC 375-005: Cultural Leadership.