Topics:
Education & Child Care
Economic Security
Mental Health
Youth and Adolescent Development
Gender Violence
Society & Leadership
Programs:
Jean Baker Miller Training Institute
Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative
National SEED Project
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Open Circle
Work, Families and Children
'We are all good woman!': A womanist critique of the current feminist conflicts. (1996)
Publications / Publications by author
‘I am just so glad you are alive’: New perspectives on non-traditional, non-conforming, and transgressive expressions of gender, sexuality, and race among African Americans (2008)
"Symposium on Gender, Social Justice and Women’s Empowerment" organized by CIGEF, WCW and UN [in Portuguese] (2017)
Recent coverage / 2017
“O CIGEF é uma instituição muito poderosa” – Diretora Executiva do Wellesley Centers for Women, Layli Maparyan (2016)
Recent coverage / 2016
#BlackWomenAtWork shows why some women identify as womanists, not feminists (2017)
$1M Investment to implement Open Circle in 23 Boston Public Schools (2013)
Recent coverage / 2012
Ain't I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought (2013)
Ashoka University, Wellesley College Partnership Commences (2016)
Black History Month in Germany (2015)
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2015
Changing Policy to Achieve Equity for Infants and Toddlers (2015)
Publications / Journal Publications
Commentary with Layli Maparyan, Ph.D. (2015)
Commentary: How Research Accelerates Social Change for Women and Girls (2014)
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2014
Commentary: Remembering Beijing: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration / Platform for Action and CSW59 (2015)
Opinion / 2015
Decentering gender: Bisexual identity as an expression of a non-dichotomous worldview. (2007)
Deconstructing “down low” discourse: The politics of sexuality, gender, race, AIDS, and anxiety (2005)
Ethnic related variations from the Cass model of homosexual identity formation: The experiences of two-spirit, lesbian and gay Native Americans (2009)
Examining African American female adolescent sexuality within mainstream Hip Hop cultures using a womanist-ecological model of human development. (2009)
Fighting in he(r) heels: Sylvia Rivera, Stonewall, civil rights, and liberation (2006)
Fitting in and feeling good: Patterns of self-evaluation and psychological stress among biracial adolescent girls (2004)
Freaks, gold diggers, divas, and dykes: The socio-historical development of African American adolescent females’ sexual scripts. (2003)
From 40 to 50: A Roadmap to WCW's Half Century Mark (2014)
Audio / Audio 2014
Global Connections, Spring/Summer 2017 (2014)
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2017
Heterosexism and homophobia (2007)
Highlights and Panels from #PersistToPower Research Forum (2017)
Video / Videos by WCW Scholars and Trainers
Improving Two-Generation Approaches for Children and Family (2015)
All Projects / Active Projects
Integrating Black feminist thought into conceptual frameworks of African American adolescent women's sexual scripting processes (2005)
Layli Maparyan Appointed the New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (2012)
Research & Action Report / Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2012
Layli Maparyan Discusses WCW (2013)
For the media / Video
Layli Maparyan, Ph.D. (2012)
Scholars & Trainers / Active Researchers
Layli Maparyan, Ph.D.: Womanism, Feminism, and the Business of Moving Social/Ecological Change Forward (2013)
Audio / Audio 2013
Mamie Phipps Clark (2005)
Nontraditional, Nonconforming, and Transgressive Gender Expression and Relationship Modalities in Black Communities (2010)
Oppositional consciousness within an oppositional realm: The case of feminism and womanism in rap and Hip Hop, 1976-2004 (2005)
Policy center conference in Jacksonville aims to get community to see the whole girl (2015)
Recent coverage / 2015
President Johnson’s Historical Inauguration Prompts Campus-Wide Exhilaration (2016)
Recontextualizing Kenneth B. Clark: An Afrocentric perspective on the paradoxical legacy of a model psychologist-activist (2000)
Redefining Race in the Workplace: Insights from Ethnic Identity Theory (1998)
The Promise of Post-Oppositional Politics: A Preliminary Conversation (2014)
Recent coverage / 2014
The role of ethnic identity and self-construal in coping among African American and Caucasian American 7th graders: An exploratory analysis of within-group variance (2002)
The Womanist Idea (Paid) (2011)
Publications / Paid Publications
The Womanist Reader (Paid) (2006)
U.N. CSW Parallel Event: How Research Advances Social Change for Women and Girls (2015)
For the media / 2014
Veganism and Ecowomanism (2010)
Wellesley Club to have first meeting of the year Oct. 1st (2012)
Wellesley College Appoints Layli Maparyan New Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, the Country’s Premier Research-and-Action Organization (2012)
Earlier / 2012
Wellesley College Delegation Builds Connections in Cape Verde (2015)
News & Events / Global Connections
Why the Academy Needs Womanism Now More Than Ever (2012)
Womanism, Feminism, and the Business of Moving Social/Ecological Change Forward (Free Lunchtime Seminar) (2013)
Earlier / 2013
Womanism, Relationality and Culture lecture at Wellesley College October 18 (2013)
Womanist Studies and Applied Womanism (2012)
