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Clothing & Toy Exchange

 

Clothing&Toy Exchange

The ASUO Women’s Center would like to present the Clothing and Toy Exchange. 

It will be on February 28, 2015 from 11am to 3pm.

At the Spencer View Apartments Community Room(2250 Patterson St.). 

The Women’s Center is now accepting clothes/toys for the clothing/toys exchange, in our office. Let us help you clean your closet and donate your gently used items to new owners. 

There will be light snacks and drinks.

 

We will also be hosting a workshop “How to Coupon?” with Stephanie Torres during the Clothing/Toy Exchange at 12-1pm February, 28th 2015.

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Mia McKenzie Book Club

1962238_10203700609384319_3966480379115299425_oThe ASUO Women’s Center “Lylle B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series Presents: Mia McKenzie, on March 7, 2015.

‘Mia McKenzie is a writer and a smart, scrappy Philadelphian (now living in the bay area) with a deep love of fake fur collars and people of color. She studied writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a black feminist and a freaking queer, facts that are often reflected in her stories, which are literary and lyrical and hella quirky, and which have won her some awards and grants, such as the Astraea Foundation’s Writers Fund Award (‘09) and the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award (‘11). Her debut novel, The Summer We Got Free, won the 2013 Lambda Literary Award. It has been described by author and critic Jewelle Gomez as “a brilliant tapestry filled with exuberance and anxiety”. You can read her short stories in The Kenyon Review  and make/shift. She speaks about race, queerness, gender, class, and intersectionality at universities across the country. Read more about Mia at www.miamckenzie.net ‘
 
 

To get excited about Mia McKenzie’s visit, we will be putting together a ‘book’ club. Where we will read some short blogs in order to become more familiar with Mia’s work. They will be on Thursdays, 4-5 (in the ASUO Women’s Center, but we are willing to relocate if necessary). We will snacks and great company! Check out the flyer above for the reading selections and dates. If you have any questions please email diversitywc@gmail.com

“Lets get together and read some empowering and rad work”

                    -Suzanne Barrientos, Intersectionality coordinator 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Let me know if you have any questions! or if we need any more articles! 

Siren’s Winter Issue

The Relationship Siren Issue is HERE!!

And it is online for free!!

Share it to the world!

Like What you just read? You can also contribute making this rad Feminist magazine!

Come to the The Siren meeting at 5:30pm on Wednesdays. 

Drop- in are welcome!

Also check The Siren’s Tumbler page!

The Siren Magazine 

Feminist writer looking to get published? Shy poet looking for a writer’s group? We want you to write for The Siren—UO’s only feminist publication. Come to a meeting and learn more about the publication.

Wednesday at 5:30PM in the EMU Fishbowl. If this time does not work for you, please contact me soon so we can set up a time to meet one-on-one and discuss your ideas for themes and articles. For Saturday, please bring some ideas for the next issue’s themes and/or subjects for articles, poetry, creative writing, artwork, etc. If you know of any friends that might be interested in working with us, bring them along too!

For more information contact Sophie at sirenwc@gmail.com

Statement regarding Lawsuit

Due to the recent news regarding a survivor’s counseling records being released, we the Women’s Center are horrified by this information. If the Counseling Center did released these records, the Women’s Center is rethinking of alternative safe spaces to refer survivors for support. Confidentiality must never be broken in student support spaces. Effective counseling relationship depends on establishing trust. Perpetrators of trauma take power over the survivor. It is essential for a survivor to be given the opportunity to reclaim their power and to be in charge of their own healing by deciding whether to voice, who to tell and when, and the details to share. We the ASUO Women’s Center believe that if the Counseling Center did release the records, their action threatens the integrity of counseling. This information is an opportunity for the University of Oregon to take a genuine look at how we protect survivors of sexual assault. If these records were released, the University of Oregon is not able to guarantee confidentiality to their students.

 

 

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Women of Color Retreat & Privilege Allyship Workshops

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THE WOMEN OF COLOR RETREAT
https://www.facebook.com/events/331950240318037/?fref=ts
It is an opportunity for campus women of color to explore the intersections of their identities as well as increase awareness about issues that affect our communities. We’ll have workshops about anti-blackness, cissexism, ableism, selfies and art as a way of expression. Join us in empowering and building a community of women of color!

Open to all identity groups, but white identifying women are encourage to attend to the White Privilege and Allyship Workshops! https://www.facebook.com/events/1725870410971503/?pnref=story

WHITE PRIVILEGE AND ALLYSHIP WORKSHOPS
https://www.facebook.com/events/1725870410971503/?fref=ts
This is a series of workshops in conjunction with the Women of Color retreat. The purpose of this gathering is to raise awareness about white privilege and how it can get in the way on the path active solidarity with women of color and others who experience marginalization.

Open to all identity groups, but women of color are encouraged to go to the Women of Color Retreat:
https://www.facebook.com/events/331950240318037/

Brave Miss World

The special screening of Brave Miss World will be in Lillis 182

Wednesday, November 12th at 7 pm. 

It is free admission. 

Brave Miss World Final Flyer copy

Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was abducted and raped in Milan, Italy two
months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she’s ready to
talk about it – and to encourage others to speak out. Now a globe-trotting victims’
advocate, Linor encourages others to stand against sexual violence by putting an
end to their silence. She travels to speak with teens in South Africa, where girls
are statistically more likely to be raped than educated. She visits U.S. college
campuses where women describe a campus culture that fails to take assaults
seriously. From rape crisis centers worldwide, to Hollywood’s living rooms, Linor
is met with emotional support, but the advocacy work causes her own trauma to
resurface.