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CAMS major and GWSS minor Adrian Balvuena ’24 was featured in Carleton News for participating in the 2023 Festival de Cammes: Color of Life film screening, an event that displays the work of CAMS majors. Balvuena’s film “Boys in the Sun” is a queer coming-of-age story that “warps the spatial and temporal timeline of their romantic experiences to tell the story of this young couple.”

Psychology major and GWSS minor Samira Gado ’24 presented two posters at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association meeting in Chicago with colleagues Mija Van Der Wege, associate professor of psychology, and Amanda Lilienfeld ’23. The posters were titled, “This statement is false: labeling lies doesn’t help,” and “We’re just too different: outgroups lead to underestimated conversational effectiveness.” This work was completed with fellow students and alumni, including GWSS alumni Lauren Carothers-Liske ’22 and Miriam Freedman ’22.

GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum, and current General Nonfiction Fellow, Kao Kalia Yang ’03 was awarded a fellowship for 2023 by the Guggenheim Foundation. She received a new fellowship underwritten by Matt Pincus and Sarah Min in “Fiction, General Nonfiction, or Biography” for a woman or person of color. Yang has written two memoirs about her family’s experience as Hmong refugees in the United States.

Candace Moore, professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Carleton, was awarded a 2023 Curriculum Innovation faculty grant from the Carleton Faculty Curricular Planning Committee to prepare and launch a new A&I course on the LGBTQ memoir.

GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum Kao Kalia Yang ’03 was interviewed by MPR for their Minnesota Now series in an episode titled “For the first time, a Hmong story heads for the opera.” In 2016, Yang wrote “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father” and now, in 2023, that story is the first Hmong story to be adapted for the operatic stage by Minnesota Opera.

GWSS alum Dashini Jeyathurai ’08 was featured in a Carleton news article called “Introducing the 5 new members of Carleton’s Board of Trustees,” which welcomes her and four other new Board members back to the Carleton community.

Iveta Jusová, professor of gender, women’s & sexuality studies and director of Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe at Carleton, published a co-authored chapter called “Contested Feminist Narratives of Three Decades. Uncertain Prospects of Czech Gender Studies” in Feministische Visionen vor und nach 1989, or Feminist Visions Before and After 1989.

WGST alum Robin Wonsley Worlobah ’13 was recently interviewed by the Minnesota Women’s Press about her thoughts on replacing a “deficit mindset” with restorative approaches, and how those ideas have…

On Friday, September 20, UC Davis English professor and associate dean Elizabeth Freeman delivered a moving talk on caretaking, rereading, and queer theory.