Wednesday, Oct. 24 | 7-8:30 p.m. | CMU Ballroom 200C Join us for a keynote and book-signing by nationally-recognized women’s rights and human rights leader, Loretta J. Ross. This featured event wraps up the Women’s Center’s Reproductive Justice Week. Ross is an expert on women’s issues, racism, and human rights. Her work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and […]
Tuesday, Oct. 23 | 3-4:30 p.m. | CMU 205 For the second event in the Women’s Center’s Reproductive Justice Week, join a panel of five local experts for a discussion about the current social, economic, and political challenges to accessing reproductive healthcare in North Dakota and Minnesota for both patients and care providers. We’ll hear from five reproductive rights advocates […]
Monday, Oct. 22 | 4-6 p.m. | Langseth 104 Help us kick off Reproductive Justice Week with a screening and discussion of the 2017 documentary dubbed “the real life Handmaid’s Tale” by Newsweek. The film tells the story of women who have become collateral damage in the aggressive campaign to take control of reproductive health care and to allow states, courts […]
Friday, Sept. 28 | 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Bridges 154 (Women’s Center) Women’s and Gender Studies Colloquium Series kicks off Friday, Sept. 28, with a talk delivered by WGS Director Dr. Kandace Creel Falcón. Her talk, “Mexican Food Narratives, (Digital) Activism, and Cultural Power” will explore the relationship between the proliferation of images and digital content and Latinx food […]
This year, MSUM’s annual Take Back the Night event on Sept. 20 centers the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). To raise awareness of cases like Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind’s, we’re asking members of our MSUM community to display a red paperdress in the days leading up to the Sept. 20 event. Drop by Dragon Fest on Tuesday, […]