I am thrilled to launch this second  edition of Dissenting Voices, a student engineered e-Journal collaboratively designed, authored, and published by undergraduate Women and Gender Studies majors as an extension of their Women and Gender Studies Senior Seminar at the College at Brockport

LeSavoy, Barbara

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Dissenting Voices
Volume 2 | Issue 1
7-28-2013
Note from the Editor
Barbara LeSavoy
The College at Brockport, State University of New York, blesavoy@brockport.edu
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Note from the Editor 
 
I am thrilled to launch this second  edition of Dissenting Voices, a student engineered e-
Journal collaboratively designed, authored, and published by undergraduate Women and 
Gender Studies majors as an extension of their Women and Gender Studies Senior 
Seminar at the College at Brockport. 
Dissenting Voices grows out of a course learning structure where Women and Gender 
Studies students reflect upon their undergraduate experience in the discipline, and 
through engagement, activism, and synthesis of acquired knowledge, establish a 
theoretical foundation to inform future feminist practices.  Course readings comprise 
students’ discipline-specific interests, enabling an intellectual forum in which students 
dialogue on a women and gender focused topic. This work culminates in a meaningful 
capstone project grounded in contemporary and emerging feminist scholarship.   
This second volume of Dissenting Voices captures an array of topics important to the 
Women and Gender Studies discipline as examined by diverse student voices.  Authors 
employ traditional essay format but also play with poetry and images in ways that infuse 
texture and dimension into the volume.  The opening essay, an empirical interrogation 
of community within Women and Gender Studies, concludes with a poem that the 
author performed as part of our 2/14 V-Day, One Billion Rising movement.  Four 
additional submissions include a study on abortion and women’s voice that opens  with  
a provocative zine cover, an examination of  body image and media that integrates 
poetic narrative, an  analysis of media objectification and sexual assault that mixes 
images with text,  and a feminist theoretical reading of Chilean poet Gabriella Mistral’s 
treatment of motherhood.   
Intersecting our semester long coursework and writings, students staged a series of 
activist projects including a One Billion Rising Stop Violence Against Women flash 
mob and open-mic poetry reading, and two information tables, one advocating 
transgender equality and one promoting awareness on ways to stop street harassment.   
The volume concludes with a photo essay that documents this activist work and also 
embeds a video link to our powerful One Billion rising installation.  
Bridging praxis with theory, essays comprising this second volume overlay topics 
intrinsic to college and surrounding communities. Authors draw on tenets of feminist 
thought as they contest gender equity borders and margins reproduced in structures of 
person, place, and institution. Collectively, and in the spirit of feminist collaboration, 
students’ activism and writing embody the impassioned resolve that is women and 
gender studies.  Dissenting Voices preserves the authenticity of student voice, sanctioning 
Dissenting Voices, v. 2, issue 1, Spring 2013  ii 
a wide range of ability and talent as engendered within students’ senior seminar 
coursework.  
In my early role as Brockport’s Women and Gender Studies Director and faculty 
developing a new Women and Gender Studies senior capstone course, I had what 
seemed a pipedream in conceptualizing a student journal.  Semesters of dynamic 
student activism and thought inspired me to imagine a women and gender studies 
publication that would bring to light undergraduate creative agency realized on the cusp 
of feminist knowledge.    
Dissenting Voices, as named and populated by its 2012 student founders, now pioneered 
onward by this 2013 class, is this dream forward.    
Barbara LeSavoy, PhD  
Director, Women and Gender Studies  
Executive Editor, Dissenting Voices 
 
 
 
 
We dedicate this issue of  
Dissenting Voices  
to  
AK  
and all victims of gender-based violence.  
We Rise  
and  
Dissent in Voice  
for all those who cannot.  
Dissenting Voices, v. 2, issue 1, Spring 2013  iii 


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