Vassar College Women's Studies Program

Students and Faculty,

Please join us for an informal dinner and discussion about the Women's Studies Program for new (and established) majors and correlates--and anyone interested in learning more about the program.

Thursday, Nov. 10, 7:00pm
Faculty Parlor (Main Building, 2nd Floor)

We hope to see you on Thursday!

The Women’s Studies Program Invites you to First Friday Event
Friday, Oct 7, 2011, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Faculty Parlor (Main Building)

Please join us for an informal discussion with: Renee Pabst (Director of Health Education and SAVP Program) and Janet Gray (SART advocate and SAVP member)

“S*xual assault and stalking at Vassar? Oh, yes, it happens!"

It’s time -- to realize it all happens at Vassar.

Not only does it happen at Vassar, it happens more than people realize--just within the first few weeks of school there are numerous reports of sexual assault, stalking, and relationship abuse that have occurred within our community. Our discussion will aim to bring awareness of these critical issues for our community, address how to support students, especially, and ask what each one of us can do as individual members of the larger college community to acknowledge these issues and effect change. In doing this we will explain the roles of the SART (the S*xual Assault Response Team), SAVP (the S*xual Assault and Violence Prevention Program)and CARES in campus responses to incidents of sexual assault,stalking and relationship abuse. The conversation will be difficult, but really important. Please join us.

A.S. Byatt on men's-only clubs in the United Kingdom. "No Grls Alod. Insept Mom." Notice attached to his bedroom door by my five-year-old grandson.

Congratulations to all of our seniors! We will miss you! And if you haven't already received a copy of the WOMEN'S STUDIES STUDENT LITERARY JOURNAL, stop by the WMST main office to collect one. Thanks for your wonderful, amazing writing and artwork!

Michael Kimmel presents "Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men" tonight, 7:30, Rocky 300

http://alana.vassar.edu/news/2010-2011/100410-AndreaSmithLecture.html

LECTURE: Andrea Smith, Decolonizing the Anti-Violence MovementALANA Center - News - Vassar College While the anti-violence movement has made progress in bringing to public attention the issues of domestic and sexual violence, it has also become increasingly complicit in state violence through its reliance on the criminal justice system. Consequently, it has often inadvertently increased violence

There is a wonderful display of second wave feminist Kate Millet's silk screen prints on display at Babycakes. Millet is author of SEXUAL POLITICS (1970), among many other works.

See today's NYT article, "A Lawsuit's Unusual Question: Who is a Man?", which quotes Vassar alumnus Michael Silverman (VC '91), executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/nyregion/11sexchange.html?ref=us

Discrimination Lawsuit Aims to Define S*x Beyond Gender A lawsuit filed Friday by an employee who says he was dismissed for being transgender could turn on the question of who is or is not a man.

Come hear Anne MacKay (VC '48-49) in the Villard Room on Wednesday, April 13, 5:30. In her talk, "Coming Home," she will speak on Vassar's rich le***an and gay history drawing on the memoirs in her book, WOLF GIRLS AT VASSAR: LE***AN AND GAY EXPERIENCES, 1930-1990 (1992). We hope to see you there!

The History of Women's Studies at Vassar College - 150 Years, Vassar's Sesquicentennial - Vassar Col by Susan Zlotnick, Associate Professor of English and Karen Robertson, Visiting Associate Professor of English January 2011Program Website