Gwyn Kirk

Gwyn Kirk is a scholar-activist concerned with genuine security and a sustainable world. She has taught women’s and gender studies at US universities and colleges for thirty years. She published a textbook/anthology, Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2019) co-edited with Margo Okazawa-Rey, and has written widely on ecofeminism, militarism, and women’s peace organizing. She holds a PhD sociology from the London School of Economics. Kirk is a founding member of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism and Women for Genuine Security, the US-based group in the network. She co-directed the documentary, “Living Along the Fenceline” (2012) featuring grassroots women leaders from South Korea to Puerto Rico whose communities are affected by US military presence in their backyards. She has also written scripts and designed outfits for Fashioning Resistance to Militarism, a popular education project.