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2025 Annual Conference Sponsors

Thought Partnership & Collaboration | Our 2025 Annual Conference Sponsors

We’re proud to share that our 45th Annual Conference Co-Chairs is the product of much kinship, curiosity, generosity, and trust among our 45th Annual Conference Sponsors. We are humbled to curate programs and opportunities alongside our sibling organizations and feminist troublemakers.

GOLD SPONSORS

La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción

La Colective Feminista en Construcción (The Feminist Collective Under Construction) is a grassroots political organization rooted in the radical tradition of Black and decolonial feminism, founded in Puerto Rico in 2014.

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Concentración Menor en Estudios de Mujer y Género | The Minor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Puerto Rico

Dr. Pagán Vélez is the coordinator of the Minor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Puerto Rico; the program "strives to ensure that its students understand the debates surrounding the structures, knowledge, and power practices that reproduce the complex relationship between gender, class, culture, race, and sexual orientation" through dynamic courses and mentorship.

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SIEMPRE VIVAS Metro (SVM)

SIEMPRE VIVAS Metro (SVM) is an interfaculty project at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Founded in 2019 at Río Piedras, SVM emerges from the loving and combative efforts initiated in western Puerto Rico through SIEMPRE VIVAS RUM at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. SIEMPRE VIVAS Metro provides support, accompaniment, and advocacy for victims and survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and sexual violence—both within the university community and in society at large. Its focus is grounded in safe spaces and collective accompaniment, prevention, social research, and activism from a feminist and decolonial perspective.

Memoria (De)Colonial

Memoria (De)colonial is a Puerto Rico-based educational organization that “interrogates the colonial legacies of Caribbean cultural heritage. We disrupt the coloniality of historical memory through public humanities initiatives. We develop critical participatory projects that transform the way history is narrated, remembered, and lived— embodying stories , rooting memory, and democratizing the production of public knowledge.”

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is "a diverse and international community of scholars committed to advancing intersectional, justice-driven research...committed to illuminating the histories of women, genders, and sexualities while embracing the full breadth of historical scholarship that seeks to deepen and expand our collective understanding of the past."

Homegirl HQ

Homegirl HQ is the official merchandise designer and partner for the National Women's Studies Association; we are proud to continue our collaboration with feminist world-makers Brittany Brathwaite and Michelina (Mickey) Ferrara. Homegirl HQ offers artwork inspired by the life and legacy of bold and visionary women of color.

SILVER SPONSORS

University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press extends the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service. We publish and make accessible works of intellectual and cultural significance that advance the boundaries of human knowledge and experience. We do this collaboratively, with agility and creativity, with innovation and dedication, every day.

Cathy Mazak, Academic Writing Coach

The podcast for academic womxn who want to write and publish more while rejecting the culture of overwork in academia.
Cathy Mazak, PhD, helps you create the career (and life) you want by centering your writing. Kick guilt and overwhelm to the curb and amplify your voice to make a real impact on your field--without breaking down or burning out.

SOAPBOX & Feminist Press

Soapbox curates feminist experiences: from one-time events featuring feminist thought leaders to mega-fundraising events to thoughtful talking circles. With decades of experience, our priorities include problem solving, event production, fundraising, and tour planning. Above all, we are a feminist community poised to actualize ideas that will transform the world.

INGRAM Academic & Professional

With titles from over 300 publishers, Ingram Academic and Professional is your best source for course adoption titles.

Ms. Magazine

When Ms. was launched as a “one-shot” sample insert in New York magazine in December 1971, few realized it would become the landmark institution in both women’s rights and American journalism that it is today. The founders of Ms., many of whom are now household names, helped to shape contemporary feminism, with Ms. editors and authors translating “a movement into a magazine.”

Council on Library & Information Resources

CLIR forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. We foster collaboration by investing in cross-disciplinary intellectual leadership, strategic programs, and professional development opportunities.With titles from over 300 publishers, Ingram Academic and Professional is your best source for course adoption titles.

University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press is a book and journal publisher—a focal point where the life experiences, insights, and specialized knowledge of writers converge to be disseminated in both print and digital formats. Established in 1950, UT Press has published more than 4,000 books over seven decades. Under the direction of Robert Devens, the Press produces approximately one hundred new books and sixteen journals each year.

BRONZE SPONSORS

University of Texas at Austin Dept Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is the home for intersectional feminist and queer studies research, teaching, and learning on the UT campus. Our areas of strength include Black Feminisms, Disability Studies and Feminist Health Studies, LGBTQ Studies, and Transnational Feminisms. DWGSS houses the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and the LGBTQ Studies Program, two centers for research and programming that bring together faculty affiliates from across campus. We warmly welcome you to join our community by dropping by our office, taking our classes, attending our events, and checking out the resources on this website.

Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service. We enhance the work of our authors through exceptional publications that shape critical issues, spark debate, and enrich teaching throughout the world for a wide range of readers.

Améfrica Press

Améfrica Press is a transnational small press dedicated to advancing Afro-diasporic scholarship, literature, and poetry across the Americas and the Global South. We foreground translation as an ethical and scholarly practice that bridges languages, geographies, and intellectual traditions. By curating a multilingual catalog that centers historically marginalized voices, we amplify cultural and critical contributions to global conversations in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.

Shout Your Abortion

SYA makes resources, campaigns, and media intended to arm existing activists, create new ones, and foster collective participation in abortion access all over the country. In 2015, the hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion inspired a viral outpouring of abortion stories on social media, receiving front-page coverage from The New York Times, LA Times, and major media the world over. A grassroots movement quickly took shape, and a non-profit was established by SYA’s Cofounder and Executive Director Amelia Bonow in 2016. In the years following, SYA has consistently affected transformational cultural change through a wide range of campaigns, materials, actions, and creative projects.

University of Washington Press

The University of Washington Press is the oldest and largest publisher of scholarly and general interest books in the Pacific Northwest. We publish compelling and transformative work with regional, national, and global impact. We are committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good and work collaboratively with our authors to produce books that meet the highest editorial and design standards. We value and promote equity, justice, and inclusion in all our work.

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