LibGuides: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Teaching and Learning Resources

Moving from the Margins: Centering Women's, Queer, and Trans Voices

Ways to promote self-expression and knowledge-creation in the classroom that go beyond the textbook:

Ask students to edit and/or create Wikipedia articles about notable women or LGBTQ+ people—or ask them to generate content about topics or issues related to gender and sexuality
Have students create digital or print zines to promote self-expression
Craft a collaborative syllabus, including a community agreement, with students
Develop an oral history project where the students’ personal stories are preserved
Write an open textbook or other open educational resources over the course of the term with students
Invite students to develop a service-learning project
Encourage students to make tutorial videos

These projects (with the permission of students) could be added to HuskieCommons or another repository.

Open Pedagogy: Habits and Values

"Open pedagogy: habits and values" from The Values of Open Pedagogy by Caroline Sinkinson is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pushing Against Privilege for Evaluating Sources

Because source evaluation is social justice work, it is critical we teach students how to push against privilege in scholarly publishing and to identify misinformation before sharing it with others.

Practicing Citational Justice

Citational Justice is the act of citing authors based on identity to uplift marginalized voices with the knowledge that citation is used as a form of power in a patriarchal society based on white supremacy.

Peer review system is commonly viewed as the gold standard, but it is flawed
Just and fair citation is an intentional practice
Citation justice “means being open to the possibility that sources written by multiply marginalized scholars should be used to not only support one's existing argument, but to contextualize and transform that argument.”1
It is about doing better work

1. Position statement on citation justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies. (2022, Nov.). Conference on College Composition and Communication. https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/citation-justice#:~:text=Instead%2C%20citation%20justice%20means%20being,contextualize%20and%20transform%20that%20argument.

Tools and Methods for Finding Underrepresented Voices

All Fields

Cite Black Women
The site reconfigures the politics of knowledge production by engaging in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.
Cite Black Authors
To achieve the long-term goal of equitable representation of Black voices in cited work, Cite Black Authors creates and maintains a searchable, dynamically grown database of work authored by Black academics.
I-Portal (Indigenous Studies Portal)
The I-Portal: Indigenous Studies Portal was launched in 2006 at the University of Saskatchewan as a tool for faculty, students, researchers, and members of the community to access digital Indigenous studies resources. Its primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia, Aotearoa – New Zealand, and other areas of the world.
Diverse Sources
Diverse Sources is a searchable database of underrepresented experts in the areas of science, health and the environment. Anyone who considers themselves underrepresented and is willing to respond to journalists on deadline is encouraged to join (including but not limited to ethnicity, gender, gender expression, gender identity, language, mental health experience, nationality, physical abilities, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, etc.).
Anti-Colonial Research Library
This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube videos on Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. If you are looking for practical examples from different parts of the world and want to know more about these research methodologies, start here!

STEM Fields

500 Women Scientists
500 Women Scientists is on its way to becoming a powerful organization representing the voices of tens of thousands of women scientists all over the globe.
500 Queer Scientists
A visibility campaign for LGBTQ+ people and their allies working in STEM and STEM-supporting jobs — a group that collectively represents a powerful force of scientific progress and discovery. 1,926 stories and counting....
How to Cite Like a Badass Feminist Tech Scholar of Color
A citation zine by Rigoberto Lara Guzmán and Sareeta Amrute
CiteHER Bibliography
blackcomputeHER.org is dedicated to supporting computing+tech education and workforce development for Black women and girls.
Queer Engineer International
Queer Engineer International is a non-profit global network of engineering, technology, and applied science professionals and students. Together, they work to build resources and authentic community at the intersection of LGBTQIA+ and STEM.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Teaching and Learning Resources