University of Illinois at Chicago, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Gender and Women’s Studies

The Gender and Women’s Studies Program (GWS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago is an interdisciplinary department made up of scholars who study a wide range of topics critical to an expansive understanding of how and why gender and sexuality matter in the world. In collaboration with Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity, GWS seeks to provide data and analyses to advocates in the Chicago metropolitan region that show why the problem of wrongful convictions produced through police violence should be addressed through a feminist lens.