University of Oregon - Women's Center

The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships
Film by Chyng Sun

Once relegated to the margins of society, pornography has become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural industries in the United States. It is estimated that the pornography industry's annual revenue has reached $13 billion. At the same time, the content of pornography has become more aggressive, more overtly sexist and racist. The film features the voices of consumers, critics, and pornography producers and performers. The film paints both a nuanced and complex portrait of how pleasure and pain, commerce and power, and liberty and responsibility are intertwined in the most intimate aspects of human relations.

Women's and Gender Studies Graduation
June 13, 2009
5pm @ Hendricks West Lawn
Celebrate the achievements of WGS graduates. Dr. Carol Stabile will be the keynote.

Arlene Stein: The Incredibly Shrinking Lesbian World and other Queer Conundra
May 27, 2009
11:20-2pm @ Gerlinger Lounge
Recently, a number of observers have warned of the "emptying out" of the lesbian category, and the decline of lesbian communities. Some blame this presumed decline on the rise of transgender and queer activism and the emergence of a "post-feminist" generation. Stein's talk will evaluate these claims and discuss the legacy of identity politics today.
Sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies

Track Town Pizza Fundraiser
May 18, 2009
Support the Women's Center by eating at Track Town Pizza. We will receive 50% of all sales. Make sure to bring your flier. Fliers available at the Women's Center or call to have them delivered.

OUT/LOUD Presents Melissa Ferrick
May 15, 2009
Doors at 7:30pm @ WOW Hall
By donations, no one will be turned away
Melissa Ferrick Album

Out/Loud is a student-driven festival for queer women's music, artists, and performers who self-identify as women and/or who self-identity as allies to queer women's music. This is the premier queer women's music festival in the Pacific Northwest. The student committee takes purposeful measures in fund raising and recruitment of artists and performers who reflect the intersecting spectrum of identities, talents and genres with queer women's music.

Women of Color Speaker Series Presents: Haunani-Kay Trask

May 13, 2009
7pm @ Gerlinger Lounge
Haunani-Kay Trask is one of Hawai‘i’s best known Native leaders and scholars. Her four books include the critically acclaimed, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i, as well as two books of poetry, Light in the Crevice Never Seen, and Night is a Sharkskin Drum. She was co-producer and scriptwriter of the award-wining film, Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation (1993).
Cosponsored by MCC and UO Women's Center

Acclaimed Feminist Filmmaker to Screen "Finding Dawn"
May 13, 2009
3:30pm @ Knight Library Browsing Room
Metis writer and filmmaker Christine Welsh screens her feature-length film "Finding Dawn," about the disappearance and murder of aboriginal women in British Columbia.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society

Mother's Day Craft Day
May 2, 2009
1-3pm Spencer View Community Room
Mark your calendars for another fun event coming up for you and your children. Make a gift, have a snack and enjoy the company of other nontraditional student families. This event if free. For more information contact Kasey @ nontradwc@gmail.com.

Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Gender and Sexuality Studies at NYU
April 27, 2009
4pm @ Knight Library Browsing Room
The coincidence of economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama have transformed the terrain for sexual politics in the United States. But how? Where are the challenges and opportunities for feminist and LGBT/queer politics in a post neoliberal world, on the brink of, what?
Cosponsored by Center for the Study of the Women in Society, Political Science Department, Humanities Center, Ethnic Studies, and UO Women's Center

Take Back the Night- 29th Anniversary
April 16, 2009
Every year, Take Back the Night is a chance for survivors of sexual violence and their allies to come together to share our individual and collective strength and to continue to fight the systematic oppression that leads to sexual violence. We will begin with a rally at the EMU Amphitheater at 6:30, including performances and speeches by the Radical Cheerleaders, the Sexual Wellness Advocacy Team, Margo Shaeffer, and Warren Light of the Wesley Center. Come to the rally to check out tables from campus and community organizations that are dedicated to ending sexual violence, supporting survivors, and working for civil rights. The march begins at 8:00 and ends at the plaza at 8th and Oak for the speak out, during which survivors of sexual violence and their allies have an opportunity to tell their stories. Transportation back to campus provided. If you are interested in tabling at the event or being involved in the planning process, please contact Rebecca Sprinson at rsprinso@uoregon.edu. To buy a t-shirt for $15, please stop by the Women's Center or SASS. This event is accessible and has Spanish and ASL translation.
Cosponsored by Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) and the UO Women's Center

International Women's Day
March 7, 2009
Doors at 6:30, event at 7pm in EMU Ballroom

International Women's Day (IWD) was first celebrated as a worker's holiday in 1908 when women marched through New York City to demand voting rights, better pay and shorter hours. The Socialist Party of America declared an official holiday the following year. This celebration of women's contributions spread to across the world and is a national holiday in Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Italy, Laos, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. Many other countries celebrate this global day connecting all women around the world and inspiriting them to achieve their full potential. IWD celebrated the collective power of women past, present and future. Come enjoy performances, dancing, poetry, drumming and food in the celebration of women globally. The event is free.
In Conversation with Betsy Meyers

February 26, 2009
12-1:30pm in Deady 306

Betsy Myers was a senior official in the Clinton Administration, as the President's senior adviser on women's issues and the first Director of the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach (1995-1997). In this capacity she helped ensure that such issues as domestic violence, reproductive choice, breast cancer, and women in business figured prominently on the Administration's legislative agenda. More recently, Ms. Myers served as a senior adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, serving as Chief Operating Officer and Chair of the Women for Obama.

Cosponsored by Women's and Gender Studies, Center for the Student of Women in Society, Students for Choice, Students for Reproductive Justice, ASUO QAC, OSPIRG and College Democrats.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Grown Woman Show
February 23, 2009
7pm in Gerlinger Lounge

In the tradition of Dorothy Allison's Two or Three Things I Know For Sure, Grown Woman Show asks: What do we do with the violence we've survived once we're grown?

Grown Woman Show is a fearless, sexy and powerful one-woman show about being a long-term survivor of violence and a queer woman of color negotiating love, family and heartbreak. Tracing one year in Piepzna-Samarasinha's life as she leaves her long-term white partner and returns to finding love and trouble in a series of new lovers of color, while simultaneously reconnecting with the family she hasn't talked to in a decade, Grown Woman Show is a meditation on the families we come from and create as queer people of color, and the complex ways we walk towards justice and healing in our communities.

Valentine's Craft Day
February 7, 2009
1-3pm Spencer View Community Room
Mark your calendars for another fun event coming up for you and your children. Make a gift, have a snack and enjoy the company of other nontraditional student families. This event if free. For more information contact Kasey @ nontradwc@gmail.com.

World AIDS Day
December 5, 2008
8:00pm, EMU Ballroom
World AIDS Day, traditionally celebrated on December 1 was grounded in 1988 and has become a transnational, worldwide phenomenon. This year's theme focuses on Leadership. This day is a blend of reflecting on the global epidemic, promoting awareness about transmission and prevention, and celebrating the lives of those taken by AIDS. Planning committee members still needed. Call 346-4095 for more information.

Cherrie Moraga: Women of Color Speaker's Series
November 5, 2008
7:30pm, EMU Ballroom
Cherrie Moraga is a poet, playwright and essayist, and the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of numerous plays and works of nonfiction. Ms. Moraga is the author of numerous plays including "Show of a Man" and "Watsonville: some Place Not Here," (both won the Fund for New American Plays Award in 1991 and 1995, respectively) and "Heroes and Saints," which earned the Pen West Award for Drama in 1992.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Toiletry Drive to Benefit Womenspace
Full sized shampoo, deodorant, razors, toothbrushes, lotion, pads, tampons and other unopened toiletries needed for survivors of domestic violence. Look for bins around campus. For more information or to host a bin contact Rebecca at svpewc@gmail.com or 346-4095.

Lipstick and Pigs: A Feminist Presidential Roundtable
October 21, 2008
4-6:00PM, Browsing Room Knight Library, UO
For the first time in US history, a white women and an Africa American man have emerged as viable contenders for both president and vice-president. In many ways, this election is a crucible for understanding the intersecting nature of gender, race, and class in contemporary society, both in terms of what is being debated, as well as issues that have remained on the margins of public discourse. This round table brings together feminists from a variety of scholarly fields and professions to consider the complexities for the campaign and feminist responses to it.
Cosponsored by Women's and Gender Studies and Center for the Study of Women in Society

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