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Fall 2008 EVENTS
Women's and Gender Studies Lecture Series
"YOUR NEGRO TOUR GUIDE "
Kathy Y. Wilson, Author
Torie Wiggins, Actor
A 60 minute one woman play based on Kathy Y. Wilson’s book, Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths In Black and White (2004, Emmis Books). The play, performed by Actress Torie Wiggins, explores African American identity, racism, and the American racial divide by tearing down racial constructs and stereotypes in thought provoking ways. Kathy and Torie will conduct a talkback and book signing after the show.
Monday, September 22, 2008
7:30pm
Bailey Science Center Auditorium (Room 1010)
Valdosta State UniversityTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
"Venereal Disease and the Politics of Social Control in Virginia 1920-1940 "
by Dr. Pippa Holloway
Dr. Pippa Holloway is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University. She has authored two books, Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present (Jun 1, 2008) and Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920-1945 ( Sep 27, 2006). A book signing will be held after the lecture.
This lecture is FREE and open to the public
Domestic Violence Awareness Month Events
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.
- Monday, October 1, 2008
- Valdosta State University Campus
The Clothesline 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.
- Monday, October 6, 2008 -October 10, 2008
- Valdosta State University Campus
The 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.
- Monday October 20, 2008- Thursday October 23, 2008
- Valdosta State University Campus
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
- Tuesday, October 28, 2008
- Valdosta State University Campus
Film: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over 4 million people have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: the many tens of thousands of women and girls who have been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Congolese army.
The world knows nothing of these women. Their stories have never been told. They suffer and die in silence. In The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo these brave women finally speak.
Emmy Award winning producer/director Lisa F. Jackson spent 2006 in the war zones of eastern DRC documenting the tragic plight of women and girls in that country's intractable conflict. She was afforded privileged access to not only the grotesque realities of life in Congo (including interviews with self-confessed rapists) but also to examples of resiliency, resistance, courage and grace.
Jackson was herself gang raped in 1976 and shared her experience with the survivors she interviewed. These women in turn recount their stories with an honesty and immediacy pulverizing in its intimacy and detail. The film is a journey into a literal heart of darkness, a search for survivors who pay witness to their own experiences, and break the silence.
Background, context and opinion are provided by interviews with peacekeepers, politicians, activists, doctors and priests. But above all there is the wrenching testimony from dozens of survivors of sexual violence who recount stories of chilling barbarity. This film gives them dignity, a face and a voice that will finally break the silence that surrounds their plight.
End of Semester Party
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.
- Thursday, December 4, 2008
- 11:00am-1:30pm
- Valdosta State University
- Carswell Hall
