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EVENTS

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Fall 2007 EVENTS

"Welcome Back Party"

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 Faculty, Staff, and Students are invited to join us for a party to open the new year and celebrate Women's and Gender Studies new name. Refreshments and Fun will be provided.

Women's and Gender Studies Lecture Series

Gail Griffin's lecture is co-sponsored by the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at VSU

 

The Southern Comfort Conference

Join us for the 17th Annual Southern Comfort Conference. Here you’ll find support, information and friends in a welcoming atmosphere of Southern hospitality. Vendors, authors, entertainers and leaders from the entire spectrum of the transgender community will be on hand for five days of learning, networking and fun.  Friday, September 14, the first SCC Career Expo will be held, featuring HR Consultants and representatives from companies who are supportive and understand the value of hiring transgender employees.

Daytimes are given over to an extensive program of informative seminars, shopping at the large vendor's area, fun activities, outside excursions and group luncheons that feature entertaining and provocative speakers from the leadership of the transgender community.

The daytime schedule of seminars reflects Southern Comfort’s sincere commitment to serve the diverse needs of our community — from basic information for the newly-out, to detailed legal, medical and political presentations, and informative sessions on family relationships, sexuality and spirituality. Evenings are given over to celebration; and the gathering of the transgender clan at SCC is always a festive affair. If you enjoy the nightlife, you’ll love Southern Comfort — from "TWINKLEDOME" to the after-hours nightclubbing at "The Stage Door" to "Soco-A-Gogo" to the “Reunion Dance and Party”.

Southern Comfort prides itself on being an all-inclusive conference. Whatever your connection to the transgender community - whether you are transsexual, a cross dresser or in between; spouse, partner or family member; straight, gay, bi or omni-sexual; post-op, pre-op or non-op; young or old; married or single; FtM or MtF; or of any variance — if transgender is an issue in your life, you are welcome at Southern Comfort Conference. For more information please see Southern Comfort web page: Southern Comfort Conference

Southern Women Writers Conference

The Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College seeks to recognize the contributions of southern women to American literature. Scholarly and creative presentations and panel discussions as well as readings and lectures by contemporary authors provides a forum for examining the unique perspectives and concerns of southern women writers of the past and present. For more information please see the Southern Women Writers Conference Web page: Southern Women Writers Conference

Domestic Violence Awareness Month Events

"A Safe Date is a Great Date Tailgate" safe date

Join us for a tailgate party prior to the VSU homecoming game. We will provide the food, drink,and fun along with information about preventing domestic violence and sexual assault.

purple ribbonPurple Ribbon Campaign

Across the country, families and friends of victims of domestic violence have adopted the purple ribbon to honor loved ones who have lost their lives at the hands of someone they loved and trusted. The display of purple ribbons conveys a powerful message that there is no place for domestic violence in homes, neighborhoods, schools, or workplaces in our community. Some sources say the purple ribbon is a unifying symbol of courage, survival, honor, and dedication to ending domestic violence.

The Clothesline Project clothes line project

The clothesline project is a visual display that bears witness to violence against women and children. Decorated t-shirts will be displayed representing particular women's or children's experiences with violence.

Conference on Women & Girls in Georgia: Women & Violence

The Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia presents the first annual Women and Girls in Georgia conference. The theme is "Women and Violence." The conference is open to academics, advocates, activists, and community members. The conference will include formal and informal sessions, with presentations of cutting-edge data and analyses, and opportunities for networking and political strategizing. For more information please see: Women's and Girls in Georgia Conference

love your body day Love Your Body Day

Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts — lips, legs, breasts — airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards. TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic surgery is good for self-esteem. Is it any wonder that 80% of U.S. women are dissatisfied with their appearance? Women and girls spend billions of dollars every year on cosmetics, fashion, magazines and diet aids. These industries can't use negative images to sell their products without our assistance.

On Love Your Body Day we will promote positive, healthy images of women and girls, protest harmful and offensive advertisements, and raise awareness about women's health issues. Love Your Body Day will be a day of action designed to combat the impossible beauty standards promoted by airbrushed advertising, Hollywood and the fashion industry. We encourage women and girls to celebrate themselves on Love Your Body Day and every day. The goal of the NOW Foundation Love Your Body Day campaign isn't to sway women from purchasing and wearing cosmetics or trend setting clothing. Rather, the campaign advocates for women to be informed consumers—defining clearly what makes them feel healthy and comfortable with their bodies, on their own terms. For more information about the NOW Foundation Love Your Body Day campaign please visit their web site: NOW Love Your Body Campaign

Killtacular Productions Presents "Rock Against Violence 2007"

This Event has been Postponed

Please Check Back for New Date

Rock Against Violence is a benefit concert to raise awareness about domestic violence and rape. Local bands (insert name of bands here) are donating their performaces in order to help raise awareness about these important issues. The concert is put on by Matt Shelton's and Daniel Dorsett's Killtacular Productions. Businesses sponsoring the event include Vitos's Pizzeria and Lounge. Tickets are $ $3.00/$5.00, $3.00 with a valid student i.d. and will be sold at the door beginning at 8p.m. All proceeds from the event go to VSU's Women's and Gender Studies Sexual Assault Prevention Program. For more informaton about Killtacular Productions and other local performances please visit their web page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=147159399

 

The Handprint Project handprint project

The handprint project is a way for men to join the dialogue about violence against women. This project allows men to take a pledge to not commit or condone violence and to seal the pledge by placing their handprint and name on a display board.

Film: The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water is a feature documentary that tells the stories of powerful, imaginative and visionary women confronting the destructive development of the Third World with new cultures and a passion for change. The film takes us to Senegal, Israel/Palestine, Brazil, and India where these new cultures, alongside old traditions, end female genital cutting (FGC), offer innovative forms of opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and show how women are spearheading the implementation of renewable resources and rainforest preservation by tapping trees to obtain rubber. The Shape of Water also takes us to a vast co-operative of rural women in India (SEWA) and, in the foothills of the Himalayas, to a farm, Navdanya, set up to preserve biodiversity and women’s role as seed keepers. By interweaving images, words, and the actions of Khady, Bilkusben, Oraiza, Dona Antonia, and Gila The Shape of Water offers fresh and nuanced insights into the lives of women in the Third World.

Narratives of rescue and salvation often underlie documentaries about women’s lives in the Third World. In contrast, The Shape of Water offers a complex look that is simultaneously inspiring and yet candid about the contradictions that face women in the Third World as they make change. The rise of globalization, the end of the Cold War, environmental degradation, and failed development in the Third World have increasingly feminized poverty despite women’s entry into the labor force in unprecedented numbers. In contrast to many documentaries about the lives of Third World women which present the women as passive victims of their circumstances, this film explores women’s efforts to generate vibrant alternatives which dispel apathy by addressing the root causes of poverty.
It traces the vital efforts of women who are pioneering social justice and celebrates their success while probing the tensions in their lives. For more information about this film please see: The Shape of Water

End of Semester Party

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Faculty, Staff, and Students are invited to join us for a"Thank Goodness Its Over" end of the semester party. We will also acknowledge and honor students graduating with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. Refreshments and Fun will be provided.