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What is Happening this Academic Year

2019-2020

 

                              Fall 2019 and Spring 2020
                                                                                                                                       

Weekly

FMLA meetings every Monday @ 4 - 5 p.m., HH Collaborative Learning Space 

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance meets every Monday in HH Collaborative Learning Space to discuss upcoming events, equality issues, as well as to support one another. If you are interested in a way to get involved come join FMLA. There are no dues. All we ask is to bring your voice and an open mind.  Help plan and execute events, learn about leadership trip to Washington, D.C. in March.

September

 FILM

"Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache." 

Wed., Sept. 25, 6:30 p.m., AD 120

October

The Clothesline Project. Oct. 23, UC Plaza 9 a.m.- 3 p.m.  A visual display that bears witness to interpersonal violence.  Survivors or loved ones of survivors are invited to design Tshirts to tell their stories. Materials available to make Tshirts.  Learn resources for healing or legal procedures. WGS Service Learning Students: Arrive at 8 a.m. at HH 144 to transport materials to the UC Plaza.  Assist in hanging rope and Tshirts.  Read materials and educate visitors or assist visitors in making a Tshirt.  Make a Tshirt. Assist in taking Tshirts down. Other service learning students are welcome to participate.

February

THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
Raise the Vibration

The Vagina Monologues 2020 Season

Auditions: Feb. 5, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Clement Auditorium

Feb. 6, 5-8 p.m., MUC 303

SHOWS: Feb. 26 and 28, 7 p.m. Clement Auditorium

Tickets $5 w/Student ID.  $10 General Admission. (Additional donations accepted.  All profits to Clarksville Sexual Assault Center and Legal Aid of Middle Tennessee)

FILM

Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema:  A Film by Kay Sloan

This rare assemblage of silent era footage opens a historic window on how filmmakers on both sides of the women's suffrage issue used the exciting new medium to create powerful propaganda and images about women. Introduced by Dr. Jill Eichhorn, Women's and Gender Studies  

Monday, Feb. 17. 5 p.m., 

March

 

 

Betty Joe Wallace Memorial Lecture: Pioneers of the 21st Century

Paula F. Casey,  Tennessee Historian, "Tennessee's Super Suffragists" 

Thursday, March 26, 4 p.m. UC 303 

April

Clothesline Project, April 2, 9-3 p.m.  UC Plaza.  See description above for service learning hours.  Resources for healing and counselors onsite. 

Walk a Mile In Their Shoes, Sat. April 18  

Social Justice Capstone Symposium, April 29 and 30, MUC 303, 6-9 p.m.

WGST and AAST students present their social justice research projects developed during their capstone course Spring 2020.