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IAS faculty member Julie Shayne spent her sabbatical editing an open-access book titled . Shayne, who is currently the Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty coordinator at 56吃瓜网 Bothell, brought together from twenty-two institutions, including the and . Authors represent GWSS programs at all types of schools, from HBCUs, to women鈥檚 colleges, to , to public universities, and contributors are as early career as , alongside .

The book is divided into three sections: The History of GWSS, the praxis of GWSS, and doing GWSS. In addition to essays about everything from , to , to the continued , to the history of the , the book is punctuated by art and answers to 鈥渨hy GWSS?鈥� by GWSS students and alumni from around the country, including several 56吃瓜网 Bothell students: , , and .

Two 56吃瓜网 Bothell GWSS alumni figure prominently in the book, Nicole Carter and Estephanie Guzman. Nicole designed the cover, worked as the art editor, , and co-authored the conclusion 鈥溾�� with Shayne. (Nicole also thought of the title 鈥淧ersistence is Resistance.鈥�) Estephanie Guzman co-authored an essay with Shayne titled 鈥溾�� and also submitted a sketch titled 鈥�.鈥�

Persistence is Resistance has already received positive feedback from leading scholars in the field:

鈥淭his remarkable collection is essential reading for all of us who work, study and find meaning and community in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs and departments. The essays are brief, engaging, and cover a wide range of topics, identities, debates and geographic locations. Artwork, photography, poetry and brief testimonials from current and former WGSS students add vibrancy and richness to the volume. I recommend it for WGSS courses at all levels.鈥� Dr. Doreen Mattingly, Professor and Chair, Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University

鈥淭his collection is the comprehensive and creative reflection that the academic discipline of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) deserves on our 50th Anniversary. This book reflects the founding tenants of creativity, activism, collaboration, and innovative praxis in a way that both affirms and restructures formal scholarly study. There has never been one approach to women鈥檚 studies. The contributors chosen for this volume reflect philosophical, methodological, racial, gender, linguistic, generational, and geographic diversity. The project known as women鈥檚 studies has necessarily evolved. With Persistence is Resistance, Julie Shayne has gifted us a comprehensive piece, but the work of WGSS is not complete. The work is not yet done, as evidenced by this moment in time when we face Covid, important Black Lives Matter activism, and voting/political repression during an election year that will determine the fate of this nation. Shayne offers a moment of important contemplation as we continue the work to define, practice, reshape, and institutionalize WGSS.鈥� Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Professor and Director, Institute for Women鈥檚, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University