Women's Studies Awareness Week:
Women's Studies Awareness Week:
Love Your Body Week
February 11 - 5, 2013
This term, the Women's Studies Program presents "Love Your Body" Week, the 2013 Women's Studies Awareness Week, featuring events relating the importance of positive body image to the project of ending gender-based violence. Look for our red velvet cupcake give-aways-a "Feed Your Body" initiative, to promote food without shame-throughout the week. The week culminates with Lewis University participation in a world-wide "dance to end violence" event, organized so that we may rededicate ourselves to being part of positive social change for women everywhere. Show up and dance!Look for these special events
All Week:
Clothesline Project
a collaboration with Health & Counseling and Theta Kappa Pi
all day, outside Charlie's Place
"Feed Your Body"
enjoy food without shame: Red Velvet Cupcakes!!!
(the official celebratory food of the Women's Studies Program)
Monday, February 11
Rosa Luxemburg: Thinking Differently
1pm-2:30pm
Sancta Alberta Chapel
Feminist, activist, radical socialist: Rosa Luxemburg is one of the best-known revolutionaries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her critical contribution to political thought and her enduring relevance can be seen in her most well-known quotation, "Freedom is always the freedom of the one who thinks differently" (Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden). Oakton Community College professor Peter Hudis, co-author of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, sheds light on this influential woman in an event that includes a performance of The Language of the Birds: Rosa Luxemburg and Me, Donna Blue Lachman's acclaimed one-woman show.
This event is Cult & Civ-eligible
Thin
6pm
AS-110-S
A film about the reality of struggling to survive eating disorders, "Thin" profiles women living in a treatment center in Florida and pulls no punches in its exploration of an often deadly disorder. Health and Counseling Services will lead post-film discussion.
This event is Cult & Civ-eligible
Tuesday, February 12
In Her Shoes
8pm
Student Union
A Theta Kappa Pi production, sponsored by Women's Studies
In Her Shoes is a game designed for learning about domestic violence. Participants move through, think about, and experience the lives of battered women. Each participant will be given a story about a woman in a domestic violence situation and will then have to live out a day "in her shoes."
This event is Cult & Civ-eligible
Wednesday, February 13
Body Image and Identity:
A Readers' Theater
8pm-10pm
Student Union
Students from Theta Kappa Pi and other members of the Lewis community will read monologues and dialogues on body image and identity, and present slam poetry and other performances.
This event is Cult & Civ-eligible.
Thursday, February 14
Take Back the Night
4:30pm
Sancta Alberta chapel
a collaboration with University Ministry and Theta Kappa Pi
In recognition of the violence which far too many women still suffer, the Lewis community will come together to remember, and to re-dedicate ourselves to a safe society for all.
One Billion Rising
9:00pm
DLS-250 (Old Chapel)
The One Billion Rising organization's 15th Anniversary on V-Day, 2.14.13, will move the earth, activating women and men across every country. V-Day wants the world to see our collective strength, our numbers, our solidarity across borders. The Women's Studies Program is inviting the Lewis Community to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and DEMAND an end to violence against women. Hip-hop dance choreographer Gene Hicks will lead a master class in hip-hop moves.
This event is Cult & Civ-eligible.
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For more information on The Women's Studies Program,
or the Minor in Women's Studies,
please contact one of the Co-Directors:
Tracey Nicholls (x5903, nicholtr@lewisu.edu)
or Karen Trimble Alliaume (x5884, alliauka@lewisu.edu)
