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SUMMARY:Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment: Women and Gender Studies under Attack
DESCRIPTION:The latest assault on academic freedom came early in 2026 when Texas A&M University in the USA moved to close its women’s and gender studies program following the firing of a faculty member for classroom content on gender identity. New College of Florida\, Wichita State University (Kansas)\, and Towson University (Maryland) also closed women and gender studies programs. The field of women and gender studies traces its origins to the 1960s- and 1970s-women’s liberation and resistance movement. These departments and programs remain vulnerable under the current Trump administration and other states like Texas are implementing similar polices limiting classroom discussions on “race or gender ideology”. \nSimultaneously\, qualitative inquiry—particularly feminist\, interpretive\, and critical—is often characterised as suspicious; accused of being rooted in ideology therefore lacking scholarly credentials\, not worthy of academic stature—a threat. Women and Gender Studies and qualitative inquiry are not simply aligned; they are co-implicated. Those who contest critical race theory and intersectionality\, race\, gender\, and ethnic studies\, and reproductive autonomy are also challenging how knowledge is generated\, whose accounts are trusted\, which methods and theories matter\, and whose stories fill the narrative landscape. This assault on Women and Gender studies is also an assault on interpretive and embodied knowledge\, and relational ways of being and knowing. \nJoin us on April 1st\, 2026\, at 1:00 p.m. EST\, (12 noon CST\, 11:00 a.m. MST\, 10:00 a.m. PST\, 8:00 p.m. UK) for the second in our series of Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment with Dr. Heidi Lewis\, the immediate past President of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her work is primarily focused on feminism (emphasis Black feminism) in this session she shares a feminist analysis\, current research and insights on Women and Gender Studies and how we might resist\, navigate\, and defend this work in the changing political landscape. The session will open with the reading of feminist poetry in the African diasporic tradition of call and response. Our two poetry readers are Tiffani Kelly PhD candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma and Victoria Obeng MA candidate in Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. This online webinar will provide an opportunity to hear about Dr. Lewis’ work in this area and to ask questions. To register please CLICK HERE.  \nDr. Heidi R. Lewis is David & Lucile Packard Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies\, Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies in Gender & Women’s Studies\, Series Editor of Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality\, and immediate past President of the National Women’s Studies Association. Her work is primarily focused on Feminism (emphasis Black Feminism)\, Hip Hop (emphasis Rap)\, and Media Studies. Along with several peer-reviewed articles\, book chapters\, and public-facing articles written for New Black Man\, The Feminist Wire\, Ms.\, and other publications\, she is the co-editor of In Audre’s Footsteps: Transnational Kitchen Table Talk (edition assemblage\, 2021) with Dana Asbury and Jazlyn Andrews. Her most recent project\, Make Rappers Rap Again!: Interrogating the Mumble Rap “Crisis” (August 2025)\, is the first to be published in the Oxford University Press Theorizing African American Music Series.
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SUMMARY:Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment: Coming In\, Two-Spirit Resurgence and Indigenous Land Based Relationality
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alex Wilson’s work can be gathered into a set of powerful and compelling interlinked ideas: Two-Spirit identity is relational\, cultural\, and land-based. Colonialism disrupted Indigenous gender and gender identity systems and connections to land; Land-based education is a pathway to cultural\, spiritual\, and social resurgence; and revitalizing two-spirit roles is essential to broader Indigenous wellbeing and sovereignty. \nWhile qualitative inquiry has expanded what counts as knowledge and method\, Dr. Alex Wilson asks us to reconsider who knowledge is for\, where it comes from\, and what responsibilities it carries. Her work reframes inquiry as a practice of “coming in”—a return to land\, community\, and relational accountability—thereby repositioning qualitative research as a site of Indigenous resurgence rather than merely critical reflection. \nJoin us on May 26th\, 2026\, at 1:00 p.m. EDT\, (12 noon CDT\, 11:00 a.m. MDT\, 10:00 a.m. PDT\, 6:00 p.m. UK) for the third in our series of Qualitative Inquiry in this Moment with Dr. Alex Wilson\, whose scholarship has greatly contributed to building and sharing knowledge about two-spirit identity\, history and teachings\, Indigenous research methodologies\, and the prevention of violence in the lives of Indigenous peoples. Her current projects include Two- Spirit and Indigenous Feminisms research: Two-Spirit identity development and “Coming In” theory that impact pedagogy and educational policy; studies on two-spirit people and homelessness; and an International study on Indigenous land-based education. Dr. Wilson’s work sits at the intersection of two-spirit identity\, Indigenous research methodologies\, and land-based education. Her scholarship is widely influential because it does not treat these as separate topics; instead\, she shows how gender\, sexuality\, land\, and Indigenous sovereignty are deeply interconnected. \nThe session will open with Indigenous Cree Elder Joseph Naytowhow offering a prayer and welcome song to set things off in a good way. This online webinar will provide an opportunity to hear about Dr. Wilson’s work in this area and to ask questions. To register please CLICK HERE. \nDr. Alex Wilson is Neyonawak Inniniwak from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. She is a professor with the Department of Educational Foundations and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. She completed her BA (Psychology) from California State University\, Sacramento in 1994; her EdM (Human Development and Psychology: Psycho-social and Cultural Development) from Harvard University in 1995; and an EdD (Human Development and Psychology) from Harvard University in 2007. Dr. Wilson is one of many organizers with the Idle No More movement\, integrating radical education movement work with grassroots interventions that prevent the destruction of land and water. She is particularly focused on educating about and protecting the Saskatchewan River Delta and supporting community based food sovereignty efforts. Having co-developed a Masters program in Land-Based Education at the University of Saskatchewan\, Dr. Wilson is now in the process of creating an international Indigenous Land –based PhD program.
URL:https://qualitativeinquiry.org/event/qualitative-inquiry-in-this-moment-coming-in-two-spirit-resurgence-and-indigenous-land-based-relationality/
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