UWO Women’s Center

Campus Center for Equity & Diversity
717 W. Irving Ave.
Oshkosh, WI 54901

Hours for the week of 11/20/23:
Monday 9:00am-4:00pm
Tuesday 9:00am-4:00pm
Wednesday Closed
Thursday Closed
Friday Closed

Fall 2023 Hours:
Monday 9:00am-4:00pm
Tuesday 9:00am-8:00pm
Wednesday 9:00am-4:00pm
Thursday 9:00am-4:00pm
Friday 9:00am-4:00pm

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Upcoming Women’s Center Events

View the Women’s Center Outlook calendar here!

Date/Time/Place	Event
Tuesday, September 26 4:00-5:30 p.m. Reeve 306	Socialized Female: Stories from Beyond the Binary People assigned female at birth share a host of experiences being socialized as female. Those that have been socialized as female but don’t identify as a woman share those experiences and can love those experiences but still feel dissonance within the confines of the female experience. Let’s talk about the experience of womanhood from those that hold identities on, off, and beyond the binary.
Thursday, September 28 6:00-7:30 p.m. Reeve 212	Don’t Yuck Our Yum The Tool Shed, a mission-driven, education-based sex toy store, will be visiting UWO to facilitate an introductory session to kink and BDSM to ensure consent and safety are centered for those who are curious or wish to explore kink and/or BDSM with their partner(s)!
Friday, September 29 10:00-11:00 a.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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Wednesday, October 4 3:00-4:00 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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Friday, October 6 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Center for Pride and Gender Equity 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: Freedom to Choose Crocheting
Friday, October 6 8:30-10:30 p.m. Reeve 202	Sex Ed Olympics How quickly can you turn an external condom into a dental dam? Or carry condoms turned into water balloons across the field of play? Or sort ways STIs are or are not transmitted? There will be fun and educational activities, and whether you medal or not, you will go home with knowledge!
Sunday, October 8 8:00-10:00 p.m. Titan Underground	Sex Trivia Grab your friends (with their consent) and compete in trivia about arousal, safer sex, orgasms, and more!
Tuesday, October 10 1:00-2:00 p.m. Teams	UNITED+ Training Foundations 201: LGBTQIA+ Terminology Basics This UNITED+ workshop will continue the important conversations from the Best Practices Foundation Course and dive deeper into terminology, the difference between gender and sexuality, and the fluidity of identities.
Tuesday, October 10 2:00-4:00 p.m. Horizon Ampitheater (between Reeve and Horizon)	WAC-a-Scale Rage against beauty norms by taking a hammer to a weight scale! Safety gear will be provided.
Thursday, October 12 2:00-3:00 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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Monday, October 16 3:00-7:00 p.m. LGBTQ+ Resource Center	Coming Out Week Kickoff Stop by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center/Pride Café for free goodies, flags, and to celebrate with us!
Tuesday, October 17 5:00-8:00 p.m. Culver Family Welcome Center	Fox Valley Take Back the Night Together we can take a stand against sexual assault, domestic violence, dating and intimate partner violence, and all other forms of sexual and interpersonal violence. This year we will be focusing on the LGBTQIA+ community. Event Itinerary: 5:00 PM - Resource Fair 6:00 PM - Program and Call to Action 7:00 PM - March
Thursday, October 19 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Reeve 220	UNITED+ Training: Navigating Legislative Advocacy in Wisconsin and the Nation for LGBTQ+ Rights In this training, led by Dr. Amney Harper and Dr. Teysha Bowser, we will review specific Wisconsin state legislation as well as current proposed bills that impact LGBTQ+ people. We will also look nationally at trends in recent legislation as well as what protections are in place. We will talk about what you can do to advocate, and we will discuss the greater implications of these recent changes.
Friday, October 20 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Center for Pride and Gender Equity 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: Celebration of Queerness Art Expression
Saturday, October 21 5:00-8:00 p.m. Reeve Ballroom	Pride Gala This evening honors the courage and spirit of LGBTQIA+ activists whose activism set an example of the crucial connection between education and social change. This event is a way to encourage and support all members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community on the three campuses of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and the Greater Fox Valley. Our goal is to provide scholarships for both UW Oshkosh students and high school students in the Fox Valley who will be enrolling at one of the UW Oshkosh campuses who have done activism for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Monday, October 23 4:00-5:15 p.m. Sage 2221	UNITED+ Training: Finding Family In LGBTQIA+ History This UNITED+ workshop will explore the history of LGBQIA+ people from ancient to recent history. Special attention will be given to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th Centuries, when queer people around the world began to develop many of the specific identities and communities we still recognize now. Understanding LGBTQIA+ people in the past can be an important element of contemporary advocacy for queer people living today.
Tuesday, October 24 1:00-2:00 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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Monday, October 30 9:00-10:00 a.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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Friday, November 3 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Center for Pride and Gender Equity 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: Perler Bead Keychains
Tuesday, November 7 1:20-2:20 p.m. Reeve Ballroom A	United+ Workshop: Embrace Teaching LGBTQIA+ Joy! Let’s talk about inclusion of LGBTQIA+ students in class! Often when teaching about LGBTQIA+ people, instructors teach about the many oppressions facing them. This focus is important in a time of rising hate and intolerance aimed at LGBTQIA+ people, particularly Trans children. At the same time, one of the ways to lift up LGBTQIA+ students in your classes and teach in opposition to this new virulent wave of hate is to teach about LGBTQIA+ joy. This event will focus on how to go beyond mainstream narratives about LGBTQIA+ people and bring a multimedia approach to teaching about the joy of LGBTQIA+ identities, embodiments, and experiences. About our speakers: Adrian Hanrahan, UWO Alum and UW Milwaukee Graduate Student in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies, and Jordan Landry, CETL Director. Adrian identifies as bisexual, femme, trans, nonbinary, queer and genderqueer along with white, working class and neurodivergent. Jordan identifies as a queer trans parent of four incredible teens and as a teacher.
Tuesday, November 7 6:00-7:00 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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Thursday, November 16 2:00-3:00 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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Friday, November 17 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Center for Pride and Gender Equity 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: Bead Working with ITSC
Friday, December 1 1:00-2:00 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 womenscenter@uwosh.edu with questions or if you would like to schedule a workshop for your group!
Friday, December 1 2:00-4:00 p.m. Women's Center	Crafts, Coffee, and Community Join Center for Pride and Gender Equity 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: Black Out Poetry
Wednesday, December 6 6:00-8:00 p.m. Reeve Ballroom	Lavender Graduation Our graduation honors and celebrates our LGBTQIA+ student graduates on their HUGE accomplishment. We ask them to provide us with a staff and/or faculty member who has shared memories and accomplishments with them to speak on their behalf. Not only is cake and punch a part of our party, but we offer an opportunity for all members of our campus to join us in our joyous celebration.
Monday, December 11 Women’s Center 12:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.	Finals Survival Night If you need a place to study or de-stress, we are here for you! We will be staying open late and have coloring books, board and video games, and other activities to help get you through the stress of finals. Survival kits filled with goodies will be available, while supplies last. Theme: Barbie
Wednesday, December 13 10:00-11:00 a.m. CCED 006A	UNITED+ Training Foundations 201: LGBTQIA+ Terminology Basics This UNITED+ workshop will continue the important conversations from the Best Practices Foundation Course and dive deeper into terminology, the difference between gender and sexuality, and the fluidity of identities.