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Title IX Teach-In with CASARA

Still have questions about the changes to Title IX policies on campus? Want to have a discussion on how to communicate changes to the rest of the Brown community? Are you a student group that works with the Brown community on sex education, sexual assault prevention, or discussions around consent? Are you an upcoming student leader or RPL, such as an MPC or WPC, who wants to understand the new Title IX policies?

Join the Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse (CASARA) to discuss the changes in Title IX policies on campus and how to discuss these policies with the greater Brown community.

Monday, April 11
4-5:30 PM
List 110

Anonymous Questions Submission Form: http://goo.gl/forms/37czAMYyXx

Love Songs: A Solo Exhibition by Lu Heintz

Join us for the Sarah Doyle Gallery's next exhibit, "Love Songs" by Lu Heintz. The exhibition will be on display from April 11 to May 6.

Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 14, 6-8PM
Sarah Doyle Gallery

Artist Statement from Lu Heintz: My work is engaged in discourses around feminism, labor and technological change. Embedded in the works are confluences of technique and meaning, craft and digital media, and everyday materials with fine art forms. The work is situated at the nexus of life and art, and walks a boundary between work and love. Labor and love act broadly as dual domains which sustain my interest in the ways a subject acts and is acted upon by intersecting social, economic, intimate, emotional and political forces. While some works describe the ways in which labor and love converge in personal and economic experience, others begin to search for meanings of love that may deviate from material, economic conditions to transform the terms of our intimate and collective relationships.

Incarcerated Women and the Right to Reproductive Labor

Sara Matthiesen will discuss her manuscript, "Reconceived: Women's Reproduction after Roe v. Wade." She will focus on activist struggles around incarcerated women's parental rights in 1970s and 1980s California, and the various consequences of grounding political appeals to prisoners' rights in the language of motherhood and "maternal suffering." Part of the Women Students at Brown (WSaB) Lunchtime Talk Series.

Lunch will be provided!

Wednesday, April 13
12-1 PM
SDWC Lounge

Jennicet Gutiérrez Public Lecture

Jennicet Gutiérrez is a Latina activist, organizer, and co-founder of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. Gutiérrez will be giving a lecture on Trans Liberation and the physical and structural violence trans women still face in this country, including violence in detention centers. Part of the 2016 Women's History Series.

Sunday, April 24
2:30-4 PM
Salomon 101

Prison Birth Project and Reproductive Justice

Prison Birth Project works with women and trans people at the intersection of the criminal justice system and parenthood. Join Prison Birth Project for an event on reproductive justice inside and outside prison walls.

Sponsored by the Masha Dexter Memorial Lecture and the Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse. Part of the 2016 Women's History Series.

Monday, April 25
5:30 PM
BERT 130

Love Made Manifest: Revolutionary Mothering and Visionary Daughtering

In this book workshop we will engage in the groundbreaking work of Revolutionary Mothering: Love On the Front Lines with co-editor Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs and contributor Arielle Julia Brown. Dr. Gumbs, a self-described Black queer troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, has collected a selection of writings that challenge preconceived notions of mothering, opening it up as a site for revolutionary love and practice for all people. Brown is the founder of The Love Balm Project, a theater practitioner, and a current student in the Brown Public Humanities MA program. Books will be available for sale at the Brown bookstore, and all are welcome! Free and open to the public, but RSVP required to lydia_kelow_bennett@brown.edu.

Tuesday, April 26
10 AM-12 PM
Location TBD

Do Not Forget the Moment: Love In the Face of Violence

Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black trouble-maker and a black feminist love evangelist. She walks in the legacy of black lady school teachers in post slavery communities who offered sacred educational space to the intergenerational newly free in exchange for the random necessities of life. As the first person to do archival research in the papers of Audre Lorde, June Jordan and Lucille Clifton while achieving her PhD in English, Africana Studies and Women’s Studies at Duke University, she honors the lives and creative works of Black feminist geniuses as sacred texts for all people. She believes that in the time we live in, access to the intersectional holistic brilliance of the black feminist tradition is as crucial as learning how to read. In this lecture, she examines the role of love in oppressed communities in this moment of violence. Free tickets available starting April 15th at Eventbrite. Open to the public. Please contact lydia_kelow_bennett@brown.edu with any questions. 

Tuesday, April 26
6:30 PM
List 120