The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship stands in solidarity with the University of Waterloo students, faculty, and staff impacted by the horrific stabbing that took place in a gender studies classroom. This action shocks with its violence, antithetical to the classroom’s work of critical and communal reflection. As scholars of gender and sexuality across history, we know too well how questioning the boundaries of these categories frequently instigates violence from those driven by hatred and misogyny. We send our strongest support to the Waterloo community, and we encourage all feminists, academics or not, to call attention to and condemn this latest act of gendered and anti-intellectual violence. For those interested…

The Advisory Board of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship joins the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) in condemning the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation currently sweeping the United States. At the time of writing, a record-breaking number of 469 anti-LGBT+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, with 210 of these bills specifically targeting transgender and nonbinary people, more anti-LGBTQ+ bills than in each of the previous five years. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, members of Parliament are deliberating whether to halt the Gender Recognition Act Reform Bill legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament in December 2022, which permits adults to change their gender designation on their…