In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies

When Jamie Lee Sprague-Ballou first came out as transgender to her parents, it took a couple of years for their relationship to realign.
Learning from and associating with successful professionals can change the lives of Nevada System of Higher Education students on Saturday, Nov. 20.

Nevada Public Radio debuts Exit Spring Mountain, a 10-episode podcast about Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in Southern Nevada.
In 2018, Facebook removed a photo of the Venus of Willendorf after it deemed the 25,000-year-old figurine pornographic
Liz Flynt doesn’t mind being called a pornographer.

You may have heard the word before or looked at it on a document and thought it was a grammatical error. But the X at the end of Latin has a deeper meaning.
The handshake is our most enduring symbol of egalitarianism and brotherhood.

Native American enrollment is down at Nevada colleges, a trend students and professors say reflects an unwelcoming community that’s not committed to recruiting more familiar faces on campus.
Leave the lyric to dedicate himself to porn? It is the bet of an Austrian mezzo-soprano who left the solemn world of opera to produce sex films with an ethical and feminist background.
Seven years ago, Adrineh Simonian bowed out of a successful career as an opera singer to produce pornography instead.
Sophia Calloway moved from Cincinnati to Phoenix last year to be closer to her parents, who relocated from Ohio to the Arizona desert three years earlier for new jobs.

Sophia Calloway moved from Cincinnati to Phoenix last year to be closer to her parents, who relocated from Ohio to the Arizona desert three years earlier for new jobs.