© 2016 by the board of trustees of the university of ill inois On the bathroom walls of our campus hang small posters advertising campus events; there’s an arts and crafts series, an event for making sugar scrub, soap, and lip balm, an Oreo stacking contest, a trip to play paintball at a local arena, and a s’more making party. What we longed for we couldn’t find—a place standing at the intersection of academic affairs and student life, a site for deepening and extending challenging and intriguing classroom conversations on hot topics while offering something fun and enjoyable. So, we built it. We tried to remind ourselves, “If you build it, they will come.” And, come they do. Every month, we host what we affectionately call a gender party. In mid-August 2012, Deborah Cohan came to the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) to assume a position in sociology and met the department chairperson, who mentioned that she would probably really like Kimberly Cavanagh, the newly hired anthropologist. A few days later, we found ourselves seated next to each other at the first department2 meeting of the semester and our chair introduced us as Kim Cohan and Deb Cavanagh. At the time, we had no idea how prophetic that linguistic intertwining really was. The following day we were at a new faculty orientation; after the long lunch, we found ourselves standing up talking for what became hours. This was to be the first of many lingering conversations exploring the contours of pedagogy and the personal. What quickly emerged in those early conversations was our mutual interest in film. Further, we both craved an environment in which we could deepen and extend the conversations we were each having with our students in our classrooms, and simultaneously we wanted to see and experience each other in action dealing with these issues along with the fascinating and intense moments that often emerge in teaching challenging and controversial topics. Intuitively, we were aware that we shared a similar sensibility for thinking about gender, intersectionality, and pedagogical issues. Throughout our first semester, we were continually struck by the number of students who were simultaneously enrolled in both of our classes—Kim’s Introduction to Cultural Anthropology and Deb’s Introductory Sociology—who remarked to us about how what they were learning in It’s S’more Than All That: Gender Benders and the Creation of Feminist Community at USCB