BOO! The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) department invites YOU to our Halloween-themed event "What’s So Scary About Gender Studies" on Monday, November 2nd, 3:30-5 p.m (doors open at 3 p.m.) at the Thompson Library Multipurpose space, room 165. The event is geared towards hearing the spine-chilling successes achieved by our alumni panelists, sharing our hair-raising upcoming classes for the Spring semester, and emphasizing the spooktacular value of the WGSS major and minor in our current moment.
As you may have noticed, gender studies has been cast as the villain in today’s political theater—misrepresented, attacked, and even treated as a threat to society itself. But maybe what's so "scary" about gender studies isn't the critiques; it's the power of the field to expose oppression, envision more just futures, and imagine different worlds. Join a panel of alumni, faculty and students in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies for a timely conversation on the stakes of gender studies today, the challenges it faces and the transformative possibilities it opens up.
Open to all students, staff, faculty, and community members. Costumes welcome (optional), and FREE food, candy, and refreshments provided for our spooky-season theme!
When: Monday, November 2nd from 3:30-5:00 PM
Doors open: 3:00 PM
Room Location: Thompson Library, Multipurpose Room 165
Disability Access Map: Thompson Library Map
Meet the Panelists!
Barbara Schwabauer is senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, where she focuses on transgender justice issues. She currently leads the Project’s team suing Idaho for its discriminatory public restroom law targeting transgender people. She joined the ACLU last year after spending fifteen years in the U.S. DOJ Civil Rights Division, where she worked on cases dealing with employment discrimination, reproductive healthcare access, youth access to gender-affirming medical care, and disability-based discrimination. She received her MA in WGSS and JD from Ohio State.
Dr. Sabrina Ali Jamal-Eddine, PhD RN (she/her) is a health humanities nurse scientist, disability justice scholar-activist, spoken word poet, and OSU WGSS alumna. Sabs double majored in WGSS and Nursing and served as president of Triota as an undergrad at OSU, she completed her PhD in Nursing with a Certificate in Disability Ethics followed by a postdoc in Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois Chicago, and she is now a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. Sabs researches ableism in healthcare education and practice, as well as coloniality in Western disability studies discourse and how colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism unjustly manufacture disability both domestically and transnationally.
Caroline “CarolineINSPIRES” Bennett is a speaker and youth development expert whose work helps young people expand what they believe is possible for their lives while becoming more intentional about who they are and how they move through the world. Through storytelling, spoken word, music, and youth programming, Caroline helps young people examine their experiences, better understand themselves, and imagine possibilities beyond what they have already seen. She previously earned a B.A. in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Ohio State University.
Jennifer Lang, MA, MSW, LISW-S, is the Assistant Director and Clinician at Ohio State’s Counseling and Consultation Services. Her work is centered on the organization and development of clinical services at CCS. She holds an undergraduate degree in Women’s Studies from American University. She has a Master’s degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an MSW from The Ohio State University.
