In this news digest, we share the exciting upcoming events, including our co-sponsored event "What Heels Chicana/o/x/e Masculinity" and the "A WGSS Presentation and Publishing Panel" happening on February 27th. We also highlight GW events such as a CCAS DEI Lunch & Learn featuring Professor Quito J. Swan and a Brown Bag Lecture with Professor Chris Wilson on "Towards Creating a Trans & Queer Canon of Baroque Art."
For the news piece of this digest, we highlight Sri Lanka's undergoing transformative moment for women. The NY Times article "Where a Strongman Failed, Women Are Now Fueling a Democratic Revival" gives an inside look at how the leftist movement in Sri Lanka that took power after an economic collapse is seizing a rare opportunity to rally more women into politics.