Women's Center Calendar of Events

Spring 2012

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64 Days of Nonviolence

The 64 Days officially begins on January 30, the day Mahatma Ghandi was assassinated, and ends on April 4, the day we commemorate Dr. King. In our ninth annual observation of the 64 Days at SCSU, we continue to celebrate the peace and justice heritage in many of our cultures and heritages, including our observation of Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Asian/Pacific Heritage Month.

For more information, please CLICK HERE.

Welcome Back Students!

The women's center presents: SISTER CIRCLES!

Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

Join us for: Sisters Standing United- A weekly support, mentoring, and empowerment for African American students on campus.
Every other Monday beginning February 6th
Location: Women Center
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Join us for: Southern Sisters Circle-Weekly meetings where women on campus come to discuss the issues that affect young women today on the Southern Connecticut campus community.
Every other Wednesday beginning February 8th
Location: Women Center
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Join us for: Healthy Relationships-A weekly group that focuses on the importance of Healthy Relationships with intimate partners.
Every other Friday beginning February 10th
Location: Women Center
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

February

stalking awareness month

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Please click below to view Stalking Statistics
Stalking is a dangerous crime that affects 3.4 million adults in the United States each year. The better we understand the facts about stalking, the more we can do to prevent it.

That's why the Stalking Resource Center, National Center for Victims of Crime, and the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, launched National Stalking Awareness Month in 2004. Every January since then, communities across the country have focused on stalking - holding events, sharing information, and building awareness about the crime.

Southern is observing the month in February to raise awareness and shed light on this silenced issue. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

Informational Tabling (11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)

Location: Adanti Student Center Plaza
• Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
• Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The Use of Technology to Stalk

Film Showing of "technology: stalking made easy"

Monday, February 6, 2012

Farnham Hall Programming Space 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Stalkers often use technology - such as global positioning systems, computer spyware and cell phones - to track their victims and evade the police. This award winning, 15-minute video (a stalking victim shares her story) is designed to train law enforcement and educate communities on stalking. A discussion will follow and information on how you can help victims and resources available will be included. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

"FREEDOM'S SOUL TOUR"

A Musical Celebration Honoring the Life and Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Adanti Student Center Ballroom
12:30PM

Join us for the "FREEDOM'S SOUL TOUR" a musical journey celebrating African American music from its inception. The Negro Spiritual serves as the inspiration and the spring board for exploring other genres like Gospel, Jazz, R&B, Blues, Funk and Hip-Hop. Celebrate a day of unity and diversity as prophesied by the late grate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with performances by students within the SCSU community. This event will be headlined by up and coming new artist Jonathan Blanchard.

Sponsored by: Southern Connecticut State University, Multicultural Center, Women's Center, and Women's Studies with support from the Black Student Union, West Indian Society, African Student Association, Men about Business, Organization of Latin American Students, Muslim Student Association, Office of Diversity and Equity, and International Student Supportive Services.

"All the world's a stage, And all the women and men merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one in their time plays many parts, Their acts being seven ages."~William Shakespeare

Sister Circle: Oprah, Trina, Beyonce and Superhead

The Many Faces of Black Women in Media

Monday, February 13, 2012
Engleman Hall room A117
1:00pm -2:00pm

Femininity and Womanhood are two terms that have boxed women into a particular mold that requires us to "play many parts". What do those parts look like? What does it mean to play them? What can we do to not have to play that role? Is it in the way that we walk, move, talk or tilt our necks? What does this mean to you and for you in your life? Come and have a conversation with fellow sisters on the Southern campus to look at what it means to be a your own woman in your personal life, on this campus, in the community and abroad.

There's No Human(e) way To Kill

Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Adanti Student Center Room 303
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

The Women's Center does not have a position on the death penalty in the abstract. The program's purpose is not to address the death penalty as a moral issue. Instead, this program is attempting to educate the SCSU community about how the death penalty works in practice. There will be valuable resources and information given.

Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

Women's History Month Kick-off!

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Jennings Breezeway
11:00AM-3:00PM

This event will provide students with the opportunity to explore "Her"Story. It is a festive event with refreshments and music that will give people the opportunity to share their written and/or oral stories. Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame will also display portraits of women in Connecticut who have made an empowering difference in all of our lives. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

Film Screening: Once Were Warriors

Wednesday February 29,2012
ASC Theatre
7:30 pm

A New Zealand film about a Maori family who are bedeviled by a violent father and deal with the societal problems of being treated as outcasts. Panel discussion featuring members of the Men's Initiative and the Women and Families Center about how we can address men's violence as a community. Starts at 7:30 pm sharp.

Sponsored the SCSU Film Society and Men's Initiative.

March is Women's History Month!

"This Little Light: the fannie lou hamer story", a one-woman show

Ms. Billie Jean Young

Thursday, March 1, 2012
Englemen Hall room A120
5:00pm - 6:30pm

Actor, activist, poet, and educator Billie Jean Young works at home and abroad on behalf of social and economic justice for all people. A MacArthur Fellow, she has educated and inspired hundreds of audiences all over the world through her poetry, lectures, drama workshops and community organizing.

For over two decades, she has shared with the world the life story of human rights activist and sharecropper from Sunflower County, Mississippi, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer. In her moving performances of the one-woman play Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light, and in her efforts to give voice to the social and economic injustices currently effecting the people of the Black Belt region of the deep South, Billie Jean seeks to make change in the world in the spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer.

Sponsored by: The Women's Center with the Office of Diversity and Equity, Women's Studies Program, Multicultural Center, Department of Sociology and Student Supportive Services.

What Makes a Family

Monday, March 5, 2012
Adanti Student Center Theatre
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Zach Wahls, 19, is the Internet star of a video widely titled "Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got," which features the then-19-year-old University of Iowa student speaking at a public forum in February to oppose a House Joint Resolution that would ban gay marriage and civil unions. Join us as Internet sensation Zach Wahls offers a fresh and bold perspective on a recently rekindled issue: same-sex marriage and family rights. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

Co-Sponsored by, the Multicultural Center, ProCon, SAGE, and the Women's Center

Gender and the Wage Gap

Monday, March 12, 2012
Farnham Hall Programming Space
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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. Come and find out what you can do to lobby for equal pay. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

Men in the Media

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Farnham Hall Programming Space
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

When you turn on your television, surf the internet, look at an advertisement or listen to the radio there are different but distinct types of men who are portrayed in these different types of media. How do these images and words of these men affect our lives? Are these stereotypes of masculinity? Come for a discussion with the SCSU Men's Initiative. Please contact Jim Hoffecker for more information at 203-392-6902 or hoffeckerj1@owls.southernct.edu

Vagina Monologues

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Engleman Hall Rm C112
7:00P.M.

The Vagina Monologues is the cornerstone of the V-Day movement, whose participants stage benefit performances of the show and/or host other related events in their communities. Such events take place worldwide each year between February 1 and April 30. The performances generally benefit rape crisis centers and similar resource centers for women.

Join the PCSW for Women's Day!

March 14, 2012

10:00a.m.-2:00p.m.
Departing from SCSU lot # 9 off Farnham Ave

Please join the PCSW for their annual Women's Day at the Capitol on March 14, 2012 from 10-2 at the legislative office building in Hartford. This year the Commission is providing a free* bus for folks in the New Haven area who would like to attend the event. The bus will pick up attendees in two locations (SCSU and downtown New Haven) at 8 AM and will depart from the Capitol building at 3 PM. Folks interested in taking the bus must RSVP by filling out this form: PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR FORM.

Beauty Across Cultures

Adanti Student Center Ballroom B
Monday, March 26, 2012
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Every culture has a distinct idea of what is beautiful. This program takes a look at how different cultures define beauty. Join us as the African Student Association, HOPE, Organization of Latin American Students and the West Indian Society share representations of beauty on behalf of their cultures. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

April is Sexual Assault AWARENESS Month

"Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding;and that there is always tomorrow."
-Dorothy Thompson

PROMOTIONAL TABLES

Student Center Plaza 11:00a.m.-2:00p.m.
3rd,4th and 5th April, 2012

Visit us at our informational tables and sign a pledge, gather information and join in the Southern proclamation effort to end violence against women. Also, we invite you to take part in political advocacy during Sexual Assault Awareness Month by writing letters to local, state, territory, tribal and national government officials about policies related to sexual violence that affect your community. All pertinent information will be provided.

YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE SO STOP BY, STAND UP, and BE HEARD!

It's Time to Talk about IT! -Sexual Assault Social Media Campaign

National Day of Action

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

This nationally recognized day provides an opportunity for prevention advocates to engage with their communities via social media. This year, proclaim "It's time to talk about it" by using social media to join the conversation. By changing your profile pictures and focusing your status updates, tweets, and blog posts on Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the Day of Action, you can engage online communities in sexual violence prevention. Change your Facebook Profile picture and/or Twitter picture. Click here for ideas to help you find information to share http://www.nsvrc.org/saam/.

The National Social Media Campaign status is:

"Today is the SAAM Day of Action! It's time to Tweet about it! Use your status, pic and posts to spread the word!"

Teal Ribbon Campaign

Wear Your Teal Ribbon on Monday, April 9, 2012 - Friday, April 13, 2012!

There is no excuse for violence! Every individual has the right to live in peace and not in fear of violence. The responsibility to create a non-violent world lies with each person, families and the community. A respectful and healthy relationship is our goal and we all need to commit to this effort. Across the nation, the color of teal has come to represent awareness about sexual assault so wear a ribbon and join in on the pledge to support the end of sexual violence . Ribbons can be picked up at the promotional tables (see above) or visit the Women's Center in Schwartz Hall.

"No Witness: Exploring the Issues of Date Rape"

Monday, April 16, 2012
Farnham Hall Programming Space
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

"No Witness: Exploring the Issues of Date Rape," is an interactive play created and produced by St Norbert College P.E.E.R. Educators. Southern students will play the roles of the prosecution, the defense, the victim, the accused, and the judge; members of the audience are to be randomly selected to serve as the jury. As the jurors deliberate to determine the fate of the accused, an interactive discussion and polling of the audience's thoughts will be conducted. The myths and realities of date rape will be explored as attitudes and beliefs are challenged. Please contact Ebony McClease, Women's Center, for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

It's Time to Talk about IT!

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Englemen Hall Room 121 A/B
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Click the flyer for more information!

White Ribbon Day

Engleman Rotunda Monday April 23, 2012
10:30 am - 2:30 pm

The Men's Initiative will have tables with pledges and ribbons.

Wear a white ribbon on Monday April 23, 2011 and take the personal pledge never to commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women and girls. It is a way for men across campus to tell the community that they are an important part in the effort of gender violence prevention.

CCs and CAs and club and organization leaders are encouraged to wear white ribbons. Contact the Men's Initiative at (203)392-6902 for information about how to obtain white ribbons.

"These Hands Will Never Harm Another"

Monday, April 23, 2012
Farnham Hall Programming Space
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

This project actively increases awareness about sexual violence and advocates for cultural change regarding the myths and realities of sexual violence. We are looking for students, staff, and faculty to visit during this time to view the banner and sign it as a pledge to help end violence. This banner will serve as a reminder to all that many people advocate for the end of violence on Southern's campus. It will also be displayed at Take Back the Night. Please contact Ebony McClease for more information at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

ROOTED IN POWER!

14th ANNUAL RALLY AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Adanti Student Center Ballroom 7:00 p.m.

Take Back the Night is an annual international rally and march that is organized in local communities across the country with the purpose of unifying women and men against sexual assault and violence against women, men and children. This year's theme is "It's Time...To Get !involved". The theme was created to reflect the importance of bystander intervention and community awareness. Event includes guest speakers, speak-out, candlelight vigil and campus-wide march.

Walk A Mile In Her Shoes Southern Style will now be held during Take Back the Night! This is an international walk with an ever-increasing number of men, women and their families joining in. This award-winning Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®: The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence is an opportunity for men to raise awareness in their community about the impact of gender violence and how to join in the fight to end it.

Contact Ms. Ebony McClease at 203-392-5786 or Mccleasee1@owls.southernct.edu for more information.

This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Center, Men About Business, H.O.P.E. and the Men's Initiative

SOUTHERN'S DENIM DAY -

Canvas the Campus with Denim!

WEAR JEANS ON APRIL 24th All Day & Night (Take Back the Night @ 7 p.m.)

Denim Day is an international anti-rape, anti-violence, anti-victim blaming campaign that is based on wearing denim jeans as a tool to protest against rape and violence.

History of Denim Day
In Italy 1992, an 18-year-old woman is raped by her driving instructor. The case goes to court but the driving instructor appeals it all the way to the Italian Supreme Court where a judge said "because the victim wore very, very tight jeans," she must have helped him take off her jeans, thereby deeming the rape as consensual sex. Within the next few hours the women of the Italian Parliament wore jeans in protest.

What can you do?
Join us in this protest against rape and violence in solidarity hear at Southern! Wear denim and a button (see below) on April 24th. Showing that you refuse to be a silent bystander!

Visit the Women's Center to pick up your Denim Day Button on Monday, April 23rd and Tuesday, April 24th.
Sponsored by the Women's Center and Human Resources.