Andrea J. Pitts, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature/Global Gender & Sexuality Studies published a book review, “World-building with Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating.” in Radical Philosophy Review 28, no. 1 (2025): 131-136.
Pitts published a book chapter: “Estamos todas en la línea”: La formación de coaliciones entre las mujeres de color de los EE. UU. a través del giro hacia lo digital.” In Comunidades digitales: Perspectivas interdisciplinarias sobre y desde América Latina, edited by David García León, Javier García León, and David Dalton. Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2025. ISBN 9781469695914
They were a commentator for The Neal A. Maxwell Lecture in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics with Cristina Beltrán, “Beauty, Brokenness, and All That Remains: A Rasquache Ethos of Abundance," at the University of Utah, October 23, 2025
Pitts organized "Fighting Back: Trans Affirmation, Care & Futures," at the Trans Studies Film Screening & Symposium, University at Buffalo, October 26-27, 2025.
They were also a panelist, Beyond the Fight for Existence: Trans* Knowledge on Life, Care, and Repair Symposium, Syracuse University, October 28, 2025.
On October 24, 2025, Sammi Maza (PhD student in Global Gender Studies) presented a paper titled "Jewish Lesbian Feminist Coalition Work" at the Sinister Wisdom Journal Lesbian Lives Conference in New York City.
Jessica Lowell Mason, PhD Candidate was invited as Special Events Speaker, “The Angry Daffodils: A Queer Mad Feminist Poetry Reading for Radicalizing Times,” Co-sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus and the Pedagogy and Professionalism Caucus, the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 2026th Annual Convention. Pittsburg, PA, March 2026.
She is the co-chair of and Presenter at "Mad Echoes in Contemporary Regeneration(s)" at the Northeast Modern Language Association's 2026 Annual Convention.
Mason is also an invited reader and speaker, "Poems from and Reflections on A New Flora," for The Screening Room Poetry Series in March 2026.
Mark Rifkin, professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, published a book: The Cambridge Introduction to Queer and Trans Studies
Marla Segol, professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, was an invited speaker at the Westboro Church in Buffalo, New York, in September 2025, speaking on "The Magic Mirror of Ritual: Three and a Half Weddings of the Waters and the Grand Celebrations of the Erie Canal."
She gave the communal address, "Ritual Mirrors," at the Tree Planing Rituals in Buffalo, Baldwinsville, and Canajoharie, NY in September and October 2025.
Segol also published "From My Flesh, I See God: Spiritual Pregnancy and the Boundaries of Kabbalah," in Mysticism in the Margins, Palgrave, November 2025
Hannah Gordon, PhD Student in GGS, Adjunct Faculty, UB College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded Best Graduate Student Paper by the New York College English Association in October 2025.