Programming & Advocacy
Programming
The Women’s Resource Center coordinates and co-sponsors several large-scale speakers and panel discussions each year. It also offers educational programming in settings such as: classrooms, residence halls, and student organizations/clubs. The staff at the WRC is willing to work with you to create the program that will best meet your needs.
Advocacy
College can be a difficult period in your life. It is not uncommon to experience a wide variety of emotions both positive and negative. The Women’s Resource Center offers a place and people who are willing and able to give you the support that you need to deal with many of the issues facing women today. Call or stop by the WRC when you feel the need to vent, cry, laugh, explode, or share pieces of yourself.
Writing workshops
The WRC hosts Professor Marilyn Abildskov from the English and M.F.A. program on a monthly basis. Marilyn facilitates topical workshops that inspire seasoned and inexperienced writers alike to write. In the process of writing, workshop participants discover new dimensions of themselves and learn how to articulate life struggles and triumphs through the art of written word.
Empowerment: Body, Mind & Spirit
College is a time of transition, a time for exploring identity, finding one’s place both on campus and in society at large. The WRC offers Empowerment: Body, Mind & Spirit each semester as a tool to help women explore the dynamics of healthy relationships, effective & assertive communication, conflict resolution, balance and body image. The series begins by focusing on mind and spirit and ends by focusing on body, as it explores concrete tactics for self-defense.
Building community: Third-wave Feminism on Third Thursdays
(The third-wave movement approaches feminism in an inclusive manner, intentionally using a global, non-xenophobic, culturally-inclusive approach. We believe that in order to shift the paradigm, interrupt cycles of domestic and dating violence and promote gender equity in our society, there has to be a place at the ‘table’ for woman of every ideological background—from corporate career minded individuals to stay-at-home moms, and that men need to included in all movements and discussions.
This Dine & Discuss Series is intended to give voice to women whose voices are sometimes not heard, to empower students to learn from the real life experiences of women of all walks of life and to promote tolerance, acceptance and open-mindedness toward diverse perspectives. This series is open to students, staff, faculty and community. We invite and encourage both men and women to attend. Food will always be provided.
Annual Campus Wide Programs:
In recognition of V-day each February, The Women’s Resource Center produces The Vagina Monologues in partnership with several other departments. The event is also a fundraiser which donates monies raised to an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women, either locally or globally.
April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. In combination with various events, The WRC consistently provides a “Take Back The Night” program and march, complete with performances, music, stories, poetry and tons of information on sexual assault. The event aims to bring the campus together and to take a stand against violence. Also in April, we observe Denim Day. This international day of protest began after a 1999 Italian Supreme Court decision against a rape victim was announced. The rationale being that her jeans were so tight, she must have helped the perpetrator remove them and therefore consented to sex. Take a stand against this kind of myth based injustice and wear your denim!
