A Note from the Director:

We are pleased in this newsletter to announce the events for the Women’s History Month Series, 2016, Imagine Resistance: Movements for a Better World. We believe that the line-up of speakers clearly reflects SDWC’s commitment to a wide-ranging and intersectional feminism and is a worthy follow-up to our 40th anniversary symposium in 2015. We would particularly like to thank Annie Furuyama and Madison Shiver for putting in place the programming, including the funding. Jieyi Cai is responsible for the striking design, and Sage Fanucci-Funes has lent her experience from last year’s programming. All of the staff made substantial contributions to the month. I would also like to thank our co-sponsors, all of whom are noted on the month’s publicity.
-Gail Cohee, Director, Sarah Doyle Women’s Center

See below for event highlights, and visit our website to download the full calendar!

Please join the Sarah Doyle staff for an open house with food and treats! Our librarian will also be hosting an open house to showcase the Sarah Doyle book collection and provide information on how to check out books of interest for your research and personal reading.

Monday, March 7, 4:30-6:30 PM
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center

The Lunchtime Talk Series will showcase the research of various Brown community members on anything feminist-related. These events will happen throughout the month of March. For more information, please check the Sarah Doyle website.

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation’s leading experts on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign. Come for Tovar’s lecture which will focus on her ongoing scholarship around fat feminisms, fashion and queer aesthetics in fat politics, and the emergence of a politicized fat identity.

Tuesday, March 8, 5:30-7 PM
BERT 130

Join us for a workshop by Joshua Allen, an organizer, abolitionist, and freedom fighter, which will push participants from organizing from a racial justice framework to a full blown liberation movement. Participants can expect to learn and share new tactics and strategies to engage in the movement for black lives more effectively.

Friday, March 11, 6:30-8:30 PM
Petteruti Lounge

Loretta J. Ross is the co-founder of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Involved in coining the term “Reproductive Justice,” Ross will focus on this intersectional framework to think beyond reproductive rights and abortion, to think critically on how to ensure the wellbeing, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, and politically of people.

Sunday, March 13, 2:30-4 PM
Salomon 101

Pembroke Center Event: The Annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman’77, P’06, P’09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies featuring Professor Tricia Rose.

Wednesday, March 16, 5:30 PM
Pembroke Hall 305

Opal Tometi is the co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the historic political project and network that launched in the wake of the murder of Trayvon Martin. Please join us for a lecture on the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which combats implicit bias and anti-black racism and works to protect and affirm the beauty and dignity of all Black lives.

Saturday, March 19, 2:30-4 PM
MacMillan 117 (Simulcast MacMillan 115)

Janet Mock is the New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More and the host of So POPular!, a weekly MSNBC digital series about culture. Please join us for a lecture and Q&A. This event is sponsored by Brown RISD Hillel Moral Voices: Violence against LGBT Individuals/Communities.

Monday, March 21, 5:30 PM
Salomon 101

Please join us for a performance by Kai Cheng Thom, also known by her stage name Lady Sin Trayda. Kai Cheng is a resistance writer, performer, and spoken word artist and currently a Feature Writer for Everyday Feminism.

Saturday, April 9, 2:30-4 PM
Metcalf Auditorium

Jennicet Gutierrez is a Latina activist, organizer, and co-founder of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement. Gutierrez will be giving a lecture on Trans Liberation and the physical and structural violence trans woman still face in this country, including violence in detention centers.

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