Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Love Some Body...Yours!
In present day America, eating disorders plague the minds of several million people. Great concern and attention on this problem has sparked a debate on the media's role in influencing the rise of eating disorders.
Who is affected? What influence, if any, do the media have in this concern? How do you perceive your body? How do you nurture your body? How do you define healthy?
With anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and recently binge eating disorder serving as the three primary classifications of eating disorder, our program will define each as well as introduce students to consider their personal opinions of beauty, the media, health, and etc.
Please click on the picture for an informational flyer.
February 24, 2009
Engleman Hall Rotunda
10 a.m. -3:30 p.m.
Visit an interactive informational table, where educational materials will be available on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Table with information on eating disorders and two posters displayed one of a cut out of a "model" and the other a "typical college student" and facts will be displayed contrasting them. Students will be asked to post their own feelings about each cut out.
Come and share your opinions on true beauty, the media representation
of beauty, and healthy body image.
Cosponsored by Counseling Services and the Women's Center. For more information, please contact Denise Zack at (203) 392-5475 or zackd1@southernct.edu
Heart Disease Awareness Week
The number one killer of American women and men is ♥ disease. According to the American Heart Association, over the last 25 years a steady decline of 17% has occurred in the death rate for heart disease in men, while the death rate for women has dropped a meager 2.5%. 450,000 American women die each year from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases.
Cosponsored by the Fitness Center, Health Services, Human Resources, Wellness Office, Women's Center and the Drug & Alcohol Center.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Healthy Heart luncheon
Adanti Student Center, Room 301
12 P.M. - 1 p.m.
Join us for a healthy lunch and learn YOUR risk for heart disease and how to lower your risk and live healthfully from Dr. Veronica Lee. You MUST RSVP for this event. Call 203.392.8971.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Healthy Eating Cooking Demonstration
1 p.m. -2 p.m.
Adanti Student Center, Room 202
Join Doreen Korodosky, Nutritionist, Health Services, for a fun and informative cooking session on preparing healthy, delicious food!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wear Jeans and Red Day
11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Adanti Student Center Food Court
Join us for a Heart Healthy fair in the Adanti Student Center. Is your ♥ healthy? Come learn about ways to keep your heart healthy. This event will include giveaways, food, and music.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Heart Health Meditation
12 p.m. -1 p.m.
Adanti Student Center 201
Join Kate WalSh, A.P.R.N., Counseling Services for a relaxing meditation that will
ease your mind and body.
WOmen's history month
Women's history month is here!! for a complete listing of events click here!!
wOMEN'S hISTORY mONTH
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
"The EssencE of beauty"
a tRIBUTE TO mARY mClEOD bETHUNE
How do environmental disparities impact women's health?
Join us Wednesday, March 4, 2009 for a talk on how environment disparities impact women's health. WTNH traffic reporter, Ms. Desiree Fontaine will moderate the session as panelists: Dr. Audrey Kerr, associate professor of the English department, Dr. Annette Madlock, assistant professor of the Communications department and Ms. Julie Anderson, Director of Education & Outreach of AIDS Project New Haven discuss the topics of AIDS and breast cancer and the influence of environmental disparities. Anderson will present the (Sisters Informing Sisters on Topics about AIDS) S.I.S.T.A. project which serves to educate Black/African American women about the AIDS epidemic.
Click Flyer for more information
HPV and Cervical Cancer Awareness Week "So Here's What You Still Need to do...LET'S FIGHT CERVICAL CANCER!" It is important to take the necessary procedures to maintaining good health. In recognition of HPV and Cervical Cancer Awareness Week, we would like to take this opportunity to raise awareness about these two avoidable diseases. Sexually active men and women are at risk of contracting HPV. Also known as Human Papillomavirus Infection, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the
In the awareness of Cervical Cancer, women are encouraged to have a Pap test. This test shows abnormalities. Human Paillomavirus infection is the primary risk factor for cervical cancer. Join us the week of March 9-12, 2009 and get the facts to protect yourself. Cervical Cancer Awareness Program: March 10, 2009 Co-Sponsors: The Women's Center,
Please click the picture for an informational flyer. For more information, contact Starsheemar Byrum @ (203)392-5786. 
March 9-12, 2009
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Documentary Screening: "No! The Rape Documentary"
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Adanti Student Center Theatre
Lecture: Talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
EN B308
Statistics reveal 1 in 4 college age women will be victims of sexual assault. Many times the effects and impact of these incidents are concealed. Often the voice of the victim/survivor is silenced and never granted the space of testimony. Sexual assault is perceived as a woman's issue, but in fact it is a social issue.
Join us for a talk with Aishah Shahidah Simmons, producer and filmmaker of No! The Rape Documentary and Breaking Silences. Her works explore violence against women in the communities of color.
Please click the pictures for informational flyers. For more information please contact Starsheemar Byrum at 203.392.5786.
Gender On Our Mind
April 7, 2009
Alex Fernandez, Women and Families
TBA
From the moment we enter the world we are labeled. The sweet baby girl is graced in her pink dress and the strong baby boy is decked in his blue baseball cap. Women are usually attributed characteristics of gentleness, while qualities of men are more aggressive. Stereotypes of gender are shared attitudes about the traits of females and males.
Join us April 7, 2009 for an event that explores one's experiences with gender stereotypes, both positive and negative and to consider where there stereotypes come from.
Please click on the picture for an informational flyer. For more information, contact Starsheemar Byrum @ (203)392-5786.
Pauline Parks, LGBT activist and advocate
April 13, 2009
4:45 p.m.-6 p.m.
ENg A120
Stereotypes of gender are shared attitudes about the assumed traits of females and males. Join us April 13, 2009 for a talk with activist Dr. Pauline Park, a transgender woman of Asian birth, as she talks about her experience in breaking the mold of gender.
For more information, contact Starsheemar Byrum @ (203)392-5786.
Gloria Miguell, Native American playwright and actor
April 20, 2009
4:45 p.m.-6p.m.
EN A120
Join us April 20, 2009 for a presentation of "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue," a performance and talk by Gloria Miguel, of Kuna and Rappahanock ancestry, founding member of the Spiderwoman Theatre, the longest running all-women and all-Native American theatre.
For more information, contact Starsheemar Byrum @ (203)392-5786.
informational tables
Informational Tables
Visit our information tables in awareness of violence against women. IN AMERICA every 15 seconds a woman is battered by a man, usually an intimate partner, raped every 2 minutes, and murdered by a spouse or boyfriend every 6 hours. Come receive information on what YOU can do to end this violence. Also tickets for "The Vagina Monologues," a benefit production to stop violence against women and girls will be sold at the informational tables. $5 for students and $10 for faculty/general public. For more information contact 203.392.5786.
Day/Time/Location
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
Conn Hall
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Academic Quad
Thursday, April 23, 2009
12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
Engleman Rotunda
Day of Healing
April 23, 2009
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
TBA
Victims of sexual assault are forced into silence and are not given a safe space to heal. Within our American society, it is not out of the norm for victims of such heinous crimes to be blamed for their assaults. While men are victims of sexual assault, most of sexual assaults are imposed on women. It is important for all victims of sexual assault to engage in the process of healing. Join us Thursday, April 23.
We open this space to victims, survivors, and friends as a step into reclamation. Cosponsored by the Women's Center, Women's Studies Program.
Vagina Monologues
April 23rd & April 24th, 2009
7:30 PM
Engleman C 112
Southern Connecticut State University's Iota Iota Iota, Kappa Chapter of the National Women Studies Honor Society will present a benefit production of Eve Ensler's award-winning play, "The Vagina Monologues." This benefit production is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Women's Center. The performances are part of V-DAY SCSU, Southern's participation in the V-Day 2007 College Campaign, the global effort to stop violence against women and girls.
For more information, contact Starsheemar Byrum @ (203)392-5786.
Clothesline Project
Stopping the Silence on Violence!
T-shirts from the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence Clothesline Project will be on display on the following dates:
April 23rd --> Day of Healing 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Location TBA
April 23rd & 24th --> Vagina Monologues 7:00 p.m. EN C112
Inspired by the Aids quilt, a group of women from Cape Cod, MA, came together to create awareness on domestic violence issues. They are the founders of the Clothesline Project. Women and men share their thoughts and stories on domestic violence by writing messages on t-shirts that are then hung out on a clothesline for all to see.
For more information please visit www.clotheslineproject.org.
Cosponsored by the Women's Center and Women's Studies Program.
Pay Equity Day
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) is organizing Pay Equity Day. Wear a pink Equal Pay button. Get yours by visiting our tabling on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in Engleman Rotunda from 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m.
Please click on the picture for an informational flyer.
*The wage gap creates real lifetime financial losses for women in Connecticut and affects women at every stage of employment from those just starting out to those looking to retire. During a lifetime the wage gap amounts to an estimated loss in wages for women of $700,000 for a high school graduate, $1.2 million for a college graduate and $2 million for a professional school graduate.
*In 2007, women earned approximately 77 cents for every dollar men received. That's $23 less to spend on groceries, housing, child care, and all other expenses for every $100 worth of work done. At the current rate, equal pay for women won't be realized until 2057.
*For more information visit www.cga.ct.gov/pcsw
Bringing Feminism to birth...and birth to 
feminism
Join us for a presentation by Maura Jo Lynch who is certified as a Professional Labor Assistant/Birth Doula and is currently completing her certification in Childbirth Education with the Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators (ALACE). Come share your experiences and find out about some of the biggest challenges women face when they become pregnant in our state today. What you learn may surprise you!
