The faculty, staff, and students of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center would to like to express a heartfelt congratulations to our graduating student staffers (from left to right): Mia Stange, Devon Reynolds, Yen Tran (recipient of the Sarah Doyle Award), Liliana Gutmann-McKenzie, Elisa Glubok, and David Borgonjon (not pictured).

We are so grateful for your work here throughout your time at Brown, and wish you all the best in all your future endeavors! 

Friday, May 2nd

3:30-5PM, Sarah Doyle Women's Center Lounge

An opportunity to gather and debrief the experience of recent activism on campus from a perspective of personal self-care. Whether you have been directly or indirectly involved, activism can offer healing opportunities and may also bring up a lot of pain. In this discussion, we'll share and discuss the impact of these recent experiences and opportunities to explore healing and self-care options. Open to graduate and undergraduate students. Please RSVP with bita@brown.edu.

Sponsored by Health Education and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center

Image via http://bit.ly/1m4338b

On exhibition May 5th-30th, 2014, The Sarah Doyle Gallery

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8th, 6-8PM.

Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 9AM-5PM

Artist Statement:

The phrase, “like grandma used to make” gets nearly 300,000 results in a Google search. This nostalgia for the culinary past—before packaged foods and high-fructose corn syrup—fails to take into consideration just how much time it takes to make three full meals a day from scratch. Indeed, what it takes is a person in every household whose full-time job it is to cook for the family. We called these people “women.” Like the production of food, a variety of handicrafts were a mundane requirement of the female gender. Today, as we come to realize that something has been lost in the mechanization of everything around us, there is a return to the idea that making something from its most basic parts has great value. Sewing, embroidery, and knitting have enjoyed resurgences, sometimes even within the realm of fine art. Home cooking is once again gaining popularity. Within this atmosphere, the temptation to romanticize the past is strong. Yet, the availability of packaged foods is what allows us the time to pursue careers, to develop new technologies, to create. The food on our tables may not be as tasty as it once was. It may not even be as wholesome. But it is important to take a step back and recognize the trade that has been made, and that what we have gained is not to be undervalued. My work is about choice. As a woman in the twenty-first century, I can choose to spend my day baking a loaf of bread, or to grab a package off a grocery store shelf after a long day at work. I can choose to spend my evenings embroidering. I can choose to combine these things and call it art.

Image: Toast Embroidery #1 Egg On Toast, 2010

Saturday, May 10th
6-8PM, Alumnae Hall Crystal Room

Bluestockings Magazine invites you to join them in celebrating the publication of Bluestockings Magazine Issue 4! Their release party will be an evening of readings, performances, and refreshments:

"We are so excited to share this semester's content and design with you all, and to bring together staff, contributors, allies, friends, family, readers, and all the folks who make Bluestockings possible. Please join us to celebrate Bluestockings, to talk feminism in writing and art, and of course, to pick up your own *free* copy of the issue! We encourage you to bring your friends and family: this space is open to everyone."

Friday, May 23, 3-5PM
Saturday, May 24, 4-6PM

Open house and tea at Sarah Doyle Women’s Center. On exhibition in the gallery is work by artist Judith Klausner. All are welcome!

This is a credit-bearing opportunity for 5-8 undergraduates in Fall 2014 to engage in team- and action-based research on race-, gender-, and sexuality-based "microaggressions" at Brown University. Microaggressions are everyday experiences of subtle put-downs (i.e. being ignored, feeling unwelcome, etc.) based on often-unconscious prejudices. See this flyer for more information. The application is due July 1, 2014. Please contact Maura Pavalow with any questions (Maura_Pavalow@brown.edu).