Student Resources
Campus Resources: ProfessionalHabif Health & Wellness Center Campus Resources
Student Health Services (SHS) Location: Dardick House, Shepley Drive, South 40 314-935-6666 shs.wustl.edu Offers: mental health services, medical services - breast/testicular screening, HPV vaccine, STI/HIV screening (treatment, referral), pregnancy tests, contraception including long acting, emergency contraception LGBT Student Involvement & Leadership Location: Campus Life in the DUC 314-935-5038 campuslife.wustl.edu/lgbtqia Relationship & Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center Location: Seigle Hall, suite 435 314-935-8761 sexualviolence.wustl.edu |
Campus Resources: Student RunTitle Mine
Title Mine seeks to make the Title IX process on campus more transparent and accountable to students, provide stronger support to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and require all administrators and service providers involved to be better-trained and better-staffed. Contact them via their facebook page, @TitleMineWashU, if you'd like to get involved. Peer Health Educators (PHE) sexual health subgroup Offers: STI screening events, Sex in the Dark health education programs, Sex Week, Bedsider Program shs.wustl.edu LGBTQIA student groups campuslife.wustl.edu/lgbtqia/groups Uncle Joe’s Peer Counseling unclejoes.wustl.edu 24/7 Beeper: 314-935-5099 Walk-in hours: Every night 10-1, Basement of Gregg Hall, South 40 Leaders in Interpersonal Violence Education (LIVE) livewashu.com Sexual Assault and Rape Anonymous Helpline (SARAH) sarah.wustl.edu/safe.html 24/7: 314-935-8080 |
Professional Resources
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Campus GroupsAlternative Lifestyle Association
[email protected] Dedicated to bringing resources to the Washington University community in an effort to promote healthy attitudes toward sex and sexuality. Areas of discourse include sex positivity, consensual non-monogamy, and kink. WU Pride Alliance [email protected] Holds social, activist, and educational programming surrounding LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual/ally) issues in both the Washington University and St. Louis communities. SafeZones [email protected] Undergraduate SafeZones is a peer facilitation group that educates and fosters discussion around LGBTQIA* issues in order to promote the development of a more open and inclusive university community. Lambda Q [email protected] Lambda Q focuses on community building, increased visibility, and advocacy for LGBTQIA* students in Fraternity/Sorority Life. |
WashU ClassesInterested in spicing up your class schedule this fall?
In one way or another, these courses all deal with sex or sexuality, and if you’re looking to learn more, here's a great place to start. L77 WGSS 100B Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies This course will provide an introduction examination of major topics and concepts in the interdisciplinary field of women, gender and sexuality. We will examine the meanings attached to terms such as "man," "woman," "gay," and "sex." Topics discussed may include the history of feminist movements, masculinity, biological frameworks for understanding gender, intimate violence, sexual identities, and intersectionality. Five seats are reserved for Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors in each section. Note: Section 1 is reserved for freshmen and sophomore students only. ATTENDANCE MANDATORY FIRST DAY IN ORDER TO RESERVE YOUR CLASS ENROLLMENT. FREQUENCY: Every Semester L77 WGSS 402 Transnational Reproductive Health Issues: Meanings, Technologies, Practices This course covers recent scholarship on gender and reproductive health, including such issues as reproduction and the disciplinary power of the state, contested reproductive relations within families and communities, and the implications of global flows of biotechnology, population, and information for reproductive strategies at the local level. We will also explore how transnational migration and globalization have shaped reproductive health, the diverse meanings associated with reproductive processes, and decisions concerning reproduction. Reproduction will serve as a focus to illuminate the cultural politics of gender, power, and sexuality. Course Listings page FREQUENCY: Unpredictable L77 WGSS 4990 Advanced Seminar: History of the Body Do bodies have a history? Recent research suggests that they do. Historians have tapped a wide variety of sources - including vital statistics, paintings and photographs, hospital records, and sex manuals - to reconstruct changes in how humans have conceptualized and experienced their own bodies. We will pay particular attention to the intersection of European cultural history and history of medicine since 1500. Modern, Europe. PREREQUISITE: Approval of the Instructor. Students registering for this course must also register for L22 49IR/45 for 1 unit. FREQUENCY: Every 1 or 2 Years L08 Classics 180 Freshman Seminar: Sexuality in Early Christianity Discourse around sex and sexuality played an important role in the development of "religious identity" in early Christianity, yet many Christians disagreed on exactly what role it should play. In this course, we will consider how different views on sexuality informed and were informed by early Christian views on martyrdom, asceticism, heresiology, the eschatological significance of the body, and Christian relations with non-Christians in the wider Greco-Roman world. We will incorporate a number of classical and contemporary theorists of religion in exploring our evidence from antiquity. FREQUENCY: Unpredictable L23 Re St 387 Topics in Jewish Studies: Jewish Sexual Ethics How have Jews engaged with questions of sex and sexuality over the course of their history? How do the various streams of Jewish tradition respond to contemporary questions of sexual ethics? What are the ways in which Jewish thought on matters of sex has interacted with non-Jewish thought, and how have sexual norms served to define the boundaries of Jewish identity and behavior? This course will explore the above questions by engaging with primary texts and secondary literature. The first unit of the course will examine ways the Jewish tradition has grappled with sexuality at various points during its history and development. The second unit will explore the roles sex and sexuality have played in situating Jews in the broader world, and in situating groups of people within Judaism itself. The third unit will engage a (non-exhaustive!) set of particular questions that animate contemporary discussions of sexual morality. Prerequisite: one course in Jewish Studies or permission of instructor. FREQUENCY: Unpredictable L14 E Lit 3451 Topics in American Literature: Sexual Politics in Film Noir and Hard-boiled Literature Emerging in American films most forcefully during the 1940s, film noir is a cycle of films associated with a distinctive visual style and a cynical worldview. In this course, we will explore the sexual politics of film noir as a distinctive vision of American sexual relations every bit as identifiable as the form's stylized lighting and circuitous storytelling. We will explore how and why sexual paranoia and perversion seem to animate this genre and why these movies continue to influence "neo-noir" filmmaking into the 21st century, even as film noir's representation of gender and sexuality is inseparable from its literary antecedents, most notably, the so-called "hard-boiled" school of writing. We will read examples from this literature by Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, Raymond Chandler and Cornell Woolrich, and discuss these novels and short stories in the context of other artistic and cultural influences on gendered power relations and film noir. We will also explore the relationship of these films to censorship and to changing post-World War II cultural values. Films to be screened in complete prints or in excerpts will likely include many of the following: The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder My Sweet, Phantom Lady, Strangers on a Train, The Big Sleep, The Killers, Mildred Pierce, The High Wall, Sudden Fear, The Big Combo, Laura, The Glass Key, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, The Crimson Kimono, Touch of Evil, Alphaville, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Devil in a Blue Dress, The Bad Lieutenant, and Memento. Required Screenings: Mondays @ 4 pm. FREQUENCY: Unpredictable L77 WGSS 3101 An Intellectual History of Sex and Gender When did sexuality begin? Is it safe to assume that gender constructions are universal and timeless? In this course, we will engage with a broad range of readings that serve as primary texts in the 'history of sexuality and gender.' Our aims are threefold: to analyze the literary evidence we have for sexuality and gender identity in Western culture, to survey modern scholarly approaches to those same texts and to consider the ways in which these modern theoretical frameworks have become the most recent set of 'primary' texts on sexuality and gender. FREQUENCY: Unpredictable |
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