Julie Shayne presents paper at Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels symposium

IAS faculty member and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies faculty coordinator Julie Shayne presented her paper titled “Expanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS” at the Critical Border Crossing symposium. Shayne’s paper was about her new book Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

Her paper was part of the second part of the two-part symposium which highlighted “stories and texts across a range of forms and genres, exploring the relationship between their movement from person to person, context to context, culture to culture as well as their role building communities and relationships. … In this two-panel symposium, panelists explore[d] traditional and indigenous stories, mass-market fiction, scholarly work, and ephemera to illuminate the politics and processes of storytelling and publishing.”