Join MHC Undergraduate Fellow Willow Wind on Wednesday, April 19 at noon in Memorial Union room 312 for a lunch and learn session on gender identity.
Our society needs to talk about gender, but we aren’t very good at it. Avoiding these discussions has harmful impacts on body image and various health disparities. What if we have better and regular conversations about ways we can positively experience gender? Undergraduate researcher Willow Wind will present on her study that explores conceptualizations and enactment of gender euphoria across demographics and contexts. Gender euphoria, one’s sense of gender belonging and fulfillment, offers a resistive approach to the mainstream tendency of restricting and pathologizing gender. At this lunch and learn event, Willow will provide an overview of her research purpose, process, and findings before facilitating a discussion and an optional activity. Lunch, stickers, and pronoun pins will be provided. Come share your thoughts!