Upcoming Women’s Center Events

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Date/Time/Place	Event
Friday, March 31 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Women's Center staff, interns, and students in creating feminist craft projects, chatting over a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, and creating a supportive and intersectional community. Craft: Women of Color Coloring Sheets
Monday, April 3 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Reeve 221	Healthy Relationships with Christine Ann Sadie Olson from Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services, Inc. will share with us what makes a relationship healthy and how to recognize unhealthy or abusive relationships. You will learn to recognize and interrupt red flags and learn ways to set boundaries with classmates, friends and family, roommates, work colleagues, and intimate partners.
Tuesday, April 4 6:30-7:30 p.m. Women's Center	WAC Believes You WAC is hosting a peer-led gathering of victims/survivors of sexual and interpersonal violence and their allies. If you are looking to build community and further your healing, we would love to have you join us!
Wednesday, April 5 12:40-1:40 p.m. Zoom	Ask an Advocate - People of Progression Join us to learn about the role of a victim/survivor advocate from different agencies around the region. This event is intended to raise awareness about victim/survivor advocate services and to foster discussion about how to best support victims/survivors of sexual violence/assault/abuse. Featured agency: People of Progression
Monday, April 10 4:30-5:30 p.m. Microsoft Teams	Go Green for Menstrual Hygiene Do you menstruate? Would you like to learn more about environmental and financially sustainable solutions to menstrual hygiene management? Join us for a Go Green for Menstrual Hygiene workshop! Participants learn about different sustainable menstrual hygiene products and their environmental impacts. Thanks to initial funding from the Green Fund and ongoing funding from the Women's Advocacy Council, student participants who menstruate will leave with a sustainable menstrual hygiene kit, while supplies last, to promote the adoption of sustainable menstrual management. Email wac@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Wednesday, April 12 12:40-1:40 p.m. Zoom	Ask an Advocate: Planned Parenthood Join us to learn about the role of a victim/survivor advocate from different agencies around the region. This event is intended to raise awareness about victim/survivor advocate services and to foster discussion about how to best support victims/survivors of sexual violence/assault/abuse. Featured agency: Planned Parenthood
Thursday, April 13 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Reeve Concourse	RAINN Day Tabling RAINN Day is an opportunity for college students to demonstrate their allyship to their peers in the fight against sexual violence. Join the conversation by stopping by our table to learn more and online with the hashtags #RAINNDay and #WontStayQuiet. UWO-Title IX will host a table emphasizing supportive measures and reporting options on campus.
Friday, April 14 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Women's Center staff, interns, and students in creating feminist craft projects, chatting over a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, and creating a supportive and intersectional community. Craft: Femigami/Origami Vulvas
Wednesday, April 19 12:40-1:40 p.m. Zoom	Ask an Advocate: Reach Counseling and Aurora SANE Join us to learn about the role of a victim/survivor advocate from different agencies around the region. This event is intended to raise awareness about victim/survivor advocate services and to foster discussion about how to best support victims/survivors of sexual violence/assault/abuse. Featured agency: Reach Counseling and Aurora SANE
Wednesday, April 19 6:30-8:30 p.m. Reeve Theater (307)	Behind Closed Doors Join WAC as we bring together students, faculty, and staff to share their vulnerable stories, narratives of intersectionality, and being at the crossroads of gender and sexual identity. The subject material discussed will be sensitive content and typically topics that are only “behind closed doors.”
Thursday, April 20 3:00-4:30 p.m. Women’s Center	Level Up! A Feminist Gaming Initiative Level Up! provides a safe space for women and other structurally excluded gamers to build community around feminist gaming while critically analyzing the media we love. During each meeting we will focus on a different topic within gaming to analyze through game play, articles, and videos utilizing a feminist lens and strategize how to make our community more inclusive.
Sunday, April 23 Student Recreation and Wellness Center 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.	Women Adventure Outdoors: Hiking at Bubolz Nature Preserve The outdoor adventure scene has largely been dominated by men and we want to help more women enjoy the great outdoors! Join the Student Recreation and Wellness Center's (SRWC) Outdoor Adventure Center (OAC) and the Women’s Center for outdoor adventures. All equipment is provided by the OAC. This free excursion is led by women-identified staff. Email oac@uwosh.edu to sign up. *Meet at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center Outdoor Adventure Center
Wednesday, April 26 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Reeve Concourse	Denim Day Tabling Stop by our table and learn more about Denim Day and ways you can support victims/survivors of sexual violence. For the past 23 years, Peace Over Violence has run an inspiring and powerful opportunity to practice solidarity and support survivors by renewing our commitment to exposing harmful behaviors and attitudes surrounding sexual violence. Denim Day is a campaign on a Wednesday in April in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The campaign began after a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans, thereby implying consent. The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim. Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in response to this case and the activism surrounding it. Since then, what started as a local campaign to bring awareness to victim blaming and destructive myths that surround sexual violence has grown into a movement. As the longest running sexual violence prevention and education campaign in history, Denim Day asks community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion statement by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual violence.
Wednesday, April 26 12:40-1:40 p.m. Zoom	Ask an Advocate: Yonʌhali:yó – Community Advocacy (Oneida Nation Domestic Abuse and Prevention) Join us to learn about the role of a victim/survivor advocate from different agencies around the region. This event is intended to raise awareness about victim/survivor advocate services and to foster discussion about how to best support victims/survivors of sexual violence/assault/abuse. Featured agency: Yonʌhali:yó – Community Advocacy (Oneida Nation Domestic Abuse and Prevention)
Wednesday, April 26 5:30-7:00 p.m. Reeve 210	Sustaining Our Joy: Tending to Ourselves and Our Legacies How can we ensure that those who are centering the needs of others are able to center themselves? What techniques and tools can we remember that we always have access to? Drawing from lineages of healing justice as a means of activism, join Veronica Agard of the EROC Speakers Series for an interactive dialogue on how to cultivate meaningful self and community-care practices as leaders and activists.
Friday, April 28 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Women's Center staff, interns, and students in creating feminist craft projects, chatting over a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, and creating a supportive and intersectional community. Craft: Friendship Bracelets and Tampon Pins
Monday, May 1 5:00-6:00 p.m. Women's Center	Go Green for Menstrual Hygiene Do you menstruate? Would you like to learn more about environmental and financially sustainable solutions to menstrual hygiene management? Join us for a Go Green for Menstrual Hygiene workshop! Participants learn about different sustainable menstrual hygiene products and their environmental impacts. Thanks to initial funding from the Green Fund and ongoing funding from the Women's Advocacy Council, student participants who menstruate will leave with a sustainable menstrual hygiene kit, while supplies last, to promote the adoption of sustainable menstrual management. Email wac@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Thursday, May 4 Student Recreation and Wellness Center 6:00-9:00 p.m.	Women Adventure Outdoors: Climbing night at the SRWC The outdoor adventure scene has largely been dominated by men and we want to help more women enjoy the great outdoors! Join the Student Recreation and Wellness Center's (SRWC) Outdoor Adventure Center (OAC) and the Women’s Center for outdoor adventures. All equipment is provided by the OAC. This free excursion is led by women-identified staff. Email oac@uwosh.edu to sign up. *Meet at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center Outdoor Adventure Center