Gender Equity Council
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Professor Ekmekçioğlu and Bilal’s presentations will delineate the intersections among gender, memory, time, and space, bridge academic traditions inside and outside of the United States, and foster comparative analyses across disciplines. Those interested more broadly in the Digital Humanities and conducting archival research will also benefit from their methodological ex
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 8th.
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September 13– Reproductive Freedom is a Christian Value featuring Rev. Katey Zeh, Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice
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WELCOMING WEEK: Immigration Justice Panel featuring Dr. Gio Guerra Perez, Dr. Korinta Maldonado, and Gloria Yen
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September 27 –From Athlete to Activist: One Person’s Story on Finding Their Voice
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Murder Mystery! A "Whodunnit" of Global Amphibian Declines
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Graduate Student Informational Breakfast Conversation with Sarah Bidgood and Dave Schmerler from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by September 29th.
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October 4 – Sexual Violence: Why They Won’t Face the Facts
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Affordable Housing for Whom? featuring Esther Patt, C-U Tenant Union
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Featuring Christine Pallon, Olivia Tasch, and Carrie Chandler, founding members of Girls Rock! Champaign-Urbana. Moderated by Fiona Ngô (Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies)
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The Foreigner’s Home is a feature-length documentary film that explores the vision and work of Toni Morrison through “The Foreigner’s Home,” the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre.
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Speaking Up against Prison Censorship: How and Why We Formed the Freedom to Learn Campaign featuring Rebecca Ginsburg, Education Justice Project
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by October 20th.
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[Re]Creating Media for Black Girls featuring Dr. Sheri Williams, Melt Magazine
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Alumni Sarah Alo will talk about her career in film-making and acting and share her series, MENACE, a dark comedy about three women hiding out together in a dangerous, dystopian world.
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by November 10th.
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Join Illinois for the inaugural #StateofWomxn19 event with womxn change makers as they examine our past and advocate for the future.
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WGGP and Center for African Studies are hosting a Grant Writing Workshop and Graduate Student Discussion on Tips for Applying for Grants and Fellowships on November 15, 2019 in 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street. Lunch will be provided from 12:00-12:30.
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Melissa Kagen,Digital Media and Gaming, Bangor University will be here to discuss her project on "border games". The project examines the critical play of a variety of games about immigrant and refugee experience. These “border games” take place within fictional or actual borderlands and follow characters either in transit or trapped in detainment centers between nation
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Fall 2019 working group meetings of the Migration & Game Design Group. Students, faculty, staff & members of the Champaign-Urbana community are welcome. Lunch provided with RSVP to wggp@illinois.edu by December 1st.
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Sex Work, Masculinity, & Economy
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Trans Politics and Anti-Racism in the bathroom talk given by Toby Beauchamp.
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Professor Dara Goldman, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Program in Jewish Culture & Society, will speak on Machismo and Machinations: The Performance of Gender in Cubatón
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As part of our ongoing series of conversations about “What to Do with a Gender and Women’s Studies Education,” Jessica Steinrock will discuss her groundbreaking work as an intimacy coordinator in the entertainment industries.
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“Praxis” comes from the Greek word, “prattein” which means “to do.” It is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. Paulo Freire asserts that praxis is a cycle of learning, reflecting, and acting in order to protect ourselves and our communities from oppressive systems.
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The Womxn’s Career Institute is a free, day-long career and leadership development focused on addressing concerns that womxn students commonly face when first entering the workforce.
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"We Poor Not Stupid! Lessons Learned in the Political Schools of the Urban Poor in Cape Town" with Dr. Ken Salo, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois and Danielle Chynoweth, Cunningham Township Supervisor
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“What would I consider a desirable society?" Susan Parenti, founder of the School for Designing a Society
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In Fat Liberation: Finding Your Fierceness, we will invite participants to uncover their own bias around fatness and interrogate those assumptions. Additionally, we will explore myths surrounding fat people and navigate ways to interrupt fatphobia in our daily lives. Bio: Jamie and Nadja are both fat artist/athletes with a passion for social justice, joyful movement an
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The Sociolinguistics Symposium Committee is pleased to announce the second annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY), which will be held on 27 February 2020 in conjunction with the 12th Annual Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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"Religious Coping with Domestic Violence: What’s God Got to Do with It?" with Kristin Godlin, Hospital Chaplain
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Jennifer Grayson, Ph.D., serves as Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor of History at HUC-JIR and at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Dr. Grayson's current book project traces changes in the relationship between Jewish government officials, the Babylonian geonim, and the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad between the tenth and twelfth centuries.
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"Bioinspired Design: A Practice in Making Analogies" with Aimy Wissa, Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois and Marianne Alleyne, Entomology, University of Illinois
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How do we identify a space as ours? Can we, in moving together, affect the space we inhabit and make it ours? Can our bodies be understood as space? In this session, we will address these questions through a mixed practice.
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The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program in collaboration with The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities hosts an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia.
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"Why I'm Still a Democratic Socialist and How I Practice My Politics?" with Patricia Simpson, Health Care for All Campaign
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This presentation pushes back on the widely spread and believed notion that only certain Black hairstyles and hair types are political. When Blacks of the diaspora style their hair, what goes through their minds as they pull and tug, dye and cut, braid and sew, or do nothing at all?
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Creating dialogue across political difference with Scott Bidner, local farmer and instructor
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Join us for the second installment of the Social Distancing Film Club! We will be watching the award-winning documentary short, Period. End of Sentence. Special guest, Saniya Ghanoui, will also be joining us for a discussion about menstruation poverty and cultural taboos around periods. Grab your favorite snack, put on some comfy clothes, and come hang out!
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Join us for our third installment of What Womxn Taught Me! This time, we will be joined by Chef Carrie Anderson, who is the Executive Chef of Residential Dining here at the University of Illinois. Chef Carrie will talk to us about how her love of cooking started, advice for folks who want to be better cooks, and more. We can't wait!
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Join us on Instagram Live @illnoiswrc as we chat with Illinois alum, Amber Kirchhoff about her professional journey and how her activism led her to a career in public policy. Talking with Amber will be Sydney Jones '20, recent graduate in Sociology and Political Science, and former WRC Marketing and Communications intern. Come see what these two have to discuss!
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Join us for another installment of the Social Distancing Film Club! We will be watching the documentary CodeGirl. Special guest, Aditi Jha, will also be joining us for a discussion about gender disparities in STEM and why all voices, regardless of gender, are crucial in the future of technology and design. Grab your favorite snack, put on some comfy clothes, and come hang
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Join us for another installment of What Womxn Taught Me! This time, we will be joined by Jamillah Gabriel, librarian, book-lover, and founder of Call Number, a library-inspired book subscription box that celebrates contemporary Black literature and authors. Jamillah will share about how her love of books began and her mission to elevate and celebrate Black writing.
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In this installment of our Instagram interview series, Jolin Zheng ('22) will be talking to WRC alum Rachel Green about her journey to becoming a Mental Health Access Specialist and Co-Coordinator of the Disability Ally Program here at the University. Tune in on Instagram Live @IllinoisWRC and join the conversation!
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In this installment of Social Distancing Film Club, we will be watching the Oscar-winning film Moonlight. Dr. Kevin Mumford, who is a professor in the History Department. His research interests include race relations, African-American history, and history of sexuality. See you there!
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Join us on Instagram Live @illnoiswrc as we chat with Illinois alum, Amarin Young '16 about her time as a student advocate and her career advocating for survivors as the Marketing and Communications Manager for Resilience, one of the largest rape crisis centers in Chicago.
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Join us for the first Dish It Up of the semester! Our fantastic panel will be discussing what they consider to be the most pressing issues for womxn of the day, and what we can do to support each other.
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This Dish It Up, we will be joined by Gloria Yen, director of the New American Welcome Center at the University YMCA. She'll be reflecting on the Center's first year, how the pandemic has been affecting immigrant communities within our larger community and more. See you there!
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IP lawyer and SAIC lecturer Silvia Beltrametti will provide insight into questions such as: “does art need to be original? to what extent can it appropriate existing expressions? what subject matter is off-limits?” drawing from examples from a wide range of artistic fields not limited to the visual arts, but including music, theatre, creative writing and fashion design
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Join us for another Dish It Up! This week, Rayven Morrow, who is a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership, will be sharing her research on sex work and leading us in a discussion around how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting folks who do sex work. See you then! Be sure to register here: https://forms.gle/sYGrpHzRmVyqkWVM6. Zoom information w
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In this talk, Sarah Bidgood and Dave Schmerler (UIUC 2012) will highlight different opportunities and approaches to contribute to this process. They will focus in particular on the need for greater diversity, including gender diversity, among experts and practitioners in this field.
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Dr. Dustin Tahmahkera, an enrolled citizen of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, will be presenting his work on representations of Native and Indigenous people in the media and how understanding this can lead to a more nuanced understanding of other contemporary issues.
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Have you ever waited in a long line for the ladies’ room? Have you ever had a hard time finding a restroom? Discover how public restrooms have historically privileged certain groups of people and discriminated against others and how changing legislation, building codes, and the media have addressed these controversies.
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The content that we put in the name "Storyteller" in our contemporary world is restrictive of that which it took within traditional African societies.
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Jaya Kolisetty and Emily Barnum will use their expertise to facilitate a discussion about maintaining healthy relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics will include healthy boundaries, online dating safety, and more.
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Join the WRC Interns for a spooky edition of Speed Friending, co-sponsored by International Education! Make new friends, play some games, and get in the Halloween spirit!
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Join us for a student-led discussion where we will talk about the complex legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and where we go from here. Register by November 1: https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucuGsqj8sGtddAhrYhNc7IT3DsqIkgru0
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This panel will be a follow-up to the panel held on August 31. The moderator and panelists will revisit their discussion about what they consider the biggest issues facing womxn today, as well as offer their insights on areas of needed civic engagement related to the recent election.
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Syndemics refers to complex epidemics involving two types of adverse interaction – the clustering and interactions of two or more diseases or health conditions (the biological–biological interface)and social environmental factors (the biological–social interface). The theory has been widely applied in the fields of medicine, public health and anthropology.
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The beginnings of Arab feminisms can be traced back to the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century against a backdrop of colonialism, anti-colonial struggles, and the emergence of postcolonial nation states.
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Our panelists, moderated by Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens, will be discussing how to maintain the various networks of our lives through this period of isolation, as well as highlighting the long history of informal networks utilized by womxn of color.
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Welcome back, Illinois community! We hope you are finding moments to rest and re-center before class start next week. Please join us for our Spring Open House on Tuesday, January 26th at Noon! Register today: go.illinois.edu/WRCOpenHouse
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Join the Women's Resources Center for the first Dish It Up of the semester! We will be joined by Illinois alumna and community organizer, Raneem Shamseldin, and Jennifer Resendiz, the president of the IGNITE RSO. They will be discussing their journeys as activists and using your voice to create social change. Register here: https://go.illinois.edu/DIU28.
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February 9th guest speaker Dr. Brenda Molano-Flores is Senior Plant Ecologist at the Illinois Natural History survey part of the Prairie Research Institute and will speak about her research on plant reproductive ecology, conservation biology and plant-insect interactions.
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YMCA Friday Forum Series: February 12 | #DigitalFaith – Keeping the Faith Remotely Speaker: Dr. Sable Manson, The University of Southern California Description: In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, many of us are using technology more than ever before. The world of technology opens many doors for global connection, but does it also come with consequences?
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Book club discussion for Illinois Alumna Mikki Kendall’s book “Hood Feminism”. Please email Anita Kaiser at arkaiser@illinois.edu if you would like a complimentary copy of the book. Limited copies available.
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Women & Gender in Global Perspectives and the Women’s Resources Center are thrilled to host a virtual screening of the acclaimed documentary, RBG. This film follows the life and legacy of the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It will be available for viewing, for free, beginning at 4 p.m. CST on Tuesday, February 16th until 4 p.m. CST Thursday, February 18th
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On Wednesday, February 17th at 4 p.m. CST, there will be a virtual conversation with RBG film directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West. This is event is hosted by Women & Gender in Global Perspectives and the Women’s Resources Center and is co-sponsored by Gender & Women’s Studies. Please share widely, and we hope to see you there!
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YMCA Friday Forum Series: February 19 | "Disrupting Disinformation" Speaker: Miriam Larson, Independent Media Center Description: In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, many of us are using technology more than ever before. The world of technology opens many doors for global connection, but does it also come with consequences?
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We can't wait for this next Dish It Up y'all! Our guests will be discussing the rewards and challenges of doing transnational social justice work, sharing advice for folks who want to be more involved in social justice issues around the world, and more! Moderated by Tyeese Braslavsky (c’2022, Political Science & Social Psychology), Presented by Jo Quiambao (Educational