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Spring 2009
Tuesday, March 24th from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Kicking Women’s Week off at Merrimack we will have a speaker, Cynthia Enloe, in Murray Lounge. She is a renowned feminist scholar, author and Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women’s Studies at Clark University in Worcester. The title of her talk is: “Taking Women’s Lives Seriously in Wartime: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.” A light lunch will be served.
Thursday, April 2nd from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m.
In Cascia Hall we are having our Annual Women’s Week Free Luncheon and Lecture “Young Feminist and Gender Activists who find Visions of Hope in the Work they do. Our speakers are Jaclyn Friedman activist, author and editor of “Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape” and Gunner Scott an award winning transgender activist who is the executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition. All are welcome to attend.
Thursday April 2nd at 7:00 p.m.
In Celebration of Women’s Week: Free Folk Concert in the Rogers Center. Come and hear the amazing Vanessa Torres and her sister Tamara. “With a raw simplicity of bare hands in the dirt, Vanessa writes folk songs that blend tender honesty with a call to action.” She and Tamara will perform songs from her new CD “Witness’ and more. Rising stars - not to be missed!
Programs 2007-2008:
Celebration of Women's Month in April
Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Free Luncheon and Lecture on: Women, Gender and the Media from 11:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. in Cascia Hall
Dr. Jane Caputi, Feminist Author and Filmmaker will talk about her new film, “The Pornography of Everyday Life” and talk about the role of gender and race in how the political candidates are being portrayed in the media
Film: Meet the filmmaker and see Jane Caputi's film "The Pornography of Everyday Life"
3:00-4:30 in Murray Lounge.
Native American Scholar and Activist Dr. Annalyssa Gypsy Murphy
will be speaking on: “Unmasking Pocahontas: Exploring the Real World of Native American Women” (call the program for the date, time and location)
Feminist Attorney on Domestic Violence and the Legal system.
Transgender Day of Remembrance: To remember person's killed because of Gender Intolerance
co-sponsored by Friend's Coalition and students in WGS 4200
"She's Not the Man I Married," feminist author Helen Boyd will speak about her new book and feminism and gender.
Helen Boyd and her husband Betty Crow will discuss their relationshp, activism and more.
Medical sociologist, author and Intersex activist Esther Morris will discuss the medical normalization of Intersex bodies and talk about her "Missing Vagina Monologue."