The Sarah Doyle Women's Center annually sponsors programming around sexual assault prevention. This month, we are particularly excited to be highlighting the ways people are speaking back to sexual assault and advocating for their own justice and that of others. We hope this month fosters dialogue around the types of change that need to happen in the face of growing awareness.

Find our full calendar of events here: http://brown.edu/go/SAAM2015

Thursday, April 2

5:30-7:30PM, Faculty Club, Huttner Room

Colby Bruno, a lawyer with the Victim Rights Law Center, will be giving the annual Masha Dexter Memorial Lecture. Bruno’s expertise is centered around Title IX and she excels in representing college students who are survivors of sexual assault. She was named one of Massachusetts’ twenty, “Up and Coming Lawyers,” and conducts national training regarding the education rights of sexual assault survivors. Light refreshments will be served.

Due to limited capacity, seating is first come, first served.

RSVP on Facebook here.

Sponsored by the Masha Dexter Memorial Fund, Sarah Doyle Women's Center, LGBTQ Center, Taubman Center, and CASARA

Thursday, April 9

6-8PM, Sarah Doyle Gallery

"This body of work entitled, “Women’s Work”, emerged from the cyclic, day-to-day routines of cleaning my house such as washing dishes and doing the laundry; chores I find time consuming, mundane and frustrating, yet necessary. Out of my ongoing struggle and resistance to what I believe to be a demeaning job and aspect of being female, came a fulfilling response in the form of Art. Over time I began accumulating the by-products of these activities, such as dryer lint, plastic pull tabs from milk containers and fur from grooming my two cats and incorporated them into something worthwhile. As it turns out, my domestic experiences have been a rich and artistic place to tap into." -Mary Hurwitz

On display: April 7–May 8

Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 AM–5 PM

$pread, an Utne award–winning magazine by and for sex workers, was independently published from 2005 to 2011. Feminist Press has recently published a collection of the best of $pread, featuring the previously untold story of $pread and how it has built a wider audience in its posthumous years.

Join $pread’s founders/editors and contributors as they discuss the history of the magazine, which started as a community tool and trade magazine for the sex industry and quickly emerged as the essential guide for people curious about sex work and for labor and civil rights activists.

Friday, April 10:

Workshop (lunch provided):
12:30PM, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Lounge (RSVP here)

Panel Talk and Forum:
5:30PM, Pavilion Room, Peter Green House

Sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, Women Students at Brown, the History Department, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the LGBTQ Center.

Email daniel_a_rodriguez@brown.edu with any questions.

April 10-11

Sayles Auditorium

Brown University’s Middle East Studies will host the third annual Engaged Scholarship conference on April 10-11, 2015, with the theme of “Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East/North Africa.”

Our primary objective is to bring together a diverse group of experts from the Middle East and around the world (academics, journalists, activists, human rights advocates, filmmakers, novelists, faith-based leaders, artists, and others) who have contributed to the representations and/or development of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) movements in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region.

Find more info and register here.

Thursday, April 16

8-9:15PM, Metcalf Auditorium

Emma Sulkowicz is a fourth-year visual arts major at Columbia University in New York City. She will discuss her endurance performance art and senior thesis, "Carry That Weight" which involves Sulkowicz carrying a mattress wherever she goes on campus to protest her university's unacceptable response to her assault. Sulkowicz will continue carrying the mattress until the perpetrator is expelled or otherwise leaves the university.

Tuesday, April 21

5-7PM, List 110

Tatyana Falalizadeh is an illustrator/painter based in Brooklyn, mostly known for her oil paintings. Having recently branched out into public art as a muralist, STWTS was born out of the idea that street art can be an impactful tool for tackling street harassment. "Stop Telling Women to Smile" is her art series that attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces.

RSVP on Facebook here.