News and Events

WRC Upcoming Events:

Women Veterans Outreach Action Team

Friday, February 10th
2:00-3:00pm WRC Lounge

The Women Veterans Outreach Action Team provides outreach to women vets, raises awareness about the unique needs of women veterans, identifies resources that would be beneficial to women veteran students, and works to create ties with Veterans’ Student Services. The Women Veterans Outreach Action Team typically meets twice a month, as announced. For more information, contact the Women Veteran Outreach Coordinator, Britni Mimms at bmimms@pdx.edu.

V-Day Portland State University presents
a benefit production of Eve Ensler's
The Vagina Monologues

February 10th & 11th
Raffle, Food & Entertainment at 6pm
Show at 7pm
General Admission $12, Students/Seniors $10
PSU Smith Ballroom, 1825 SW Broadway
Produced by the Women's Resource Center at PSU
ASL Interpretation for Saturday Show

A benefit production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues will spotlight violence against women and girls in Haiti. Tickets are available at the PSU Box Office by calling 503-725-3307 or www.ticketmaster.com. For more information call the Women's Resource Center at 503-725-5672 or contact Kari Anne McDonald, the WRC Events Coordinator at karm@pdx.edu.

Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School and on the Street
A presentation by Holly Kearl, author of Stop Street Harassment

Monday, February 13th at 6:00pm
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway, Room 296/98
Free Admission

Holly Kearl, AAUW legal advocacy program manager and national street and school harassment expert, comes to Portland State University to lecture on Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School and on the Street. The lecture, to be held on Monday, February 13 at 6 PM at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, in Room 296/8, is free and open to the public. The presentation, co-sponsored by the Portland Branch of AAUW, Girls, Inc. of Northwest Oregon and the Women’s Resource Center of Portland State University, is a collaborative effort among these groups to bring this important topic to the Portland State University campus and to the Portland community-at-large. For more information download the Event Poster in PDF format, call the Women's Resource Center at 503-725-5672, or contact Kari Anne McDonald, the WRC Events Coordinator at karm@pdx.edu.

Crafternoons!

Meets every Wednesday
Noon-1:00pm WRC Lounge

Bring your knitting, crochet, sewing and gripes. Share skills, ideas and thoughts. Everyone is welcome. Yarn and needles are also available for beginners or those in need. All crafts are welcome and are not restricted to yarn or string. Sponsored by the Women's Resource Center. For more information call (503) 725-5672.

Feminist Writing Group

Meets every Wednesday
4:00-5:00PM WRC Lounge

Join the Feminist Writing Group for afternoons of radical writing. Learn about getting involved with the community of feminist writers at Portland State as we act as a cultural creators for social change and personal transformation! Bring writing utensil, paper, and friends. This group is open to all self-identified feminist writers from all writing backgrounds. Our mission is to cultivate autonomy within a community where the personal is political and where writing is used as a tool for empowerment. We value writing as a feminist practice in that it nurtures voices of resistance to patriarchy and other forms of oppression on a creative landscape of self-expression. For more information, contact Amanda Leece at amandaleece@gmail.com.

Game Night!
Sponsored by the Women Veterans Outreach Action Team
Our Game Night theme is "Building Community"

Wednesday February 15th
4:30-6:30PM WRC Lounge

The Women Veterans Outreach Action Team is committed to creating a space for women veterans at PSU,
providing resources that benefit women veterans and their families, and hosting educational and fun events. We would like to invite all women vets and allies to Game Night. It's an opportunity to play your favorite board games, socialize, and snack. Join us! For more information, contact the Women Veteran Outreach Coordinator, Britni Mimms at bmimms@pdx.edu.

Women of Color Action Team

Tuesday, February 21st
3:00-4:00PM WRC Lounge

The purpose of this action team: (a) provide a safe space for women of color on campus (b) build community and network with allies (c) fun and empowering events. This group meets bi-weekly. For more information, contact the Empowerment Project Coordinator, Malika Edden at mpe@pdx.edu.

Take Back The Night
& Bike Back The Night
Committee Meeting

Wednesday, February 22nd
5:00-6:30pm WRC Lounge

We have the power, we have the might, the streets are ours, Take Back the Night! Sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and The Portland Women's Crisis Line. Follow us on Facebook: Take Back the Night/Bike Back the Night. Unable to attend the meeting but are still interested in being involved in this year’s event? No problem! Just email us at tbtn.psu@gmail.com.

Faculty Favorite Lecture Series
Roslyn Farrington
"Living the Dream of Beloved Community"

Thursday, February 23rd
2:00-4:00pm WRC Lounge

In honor of Black History Month, please join us at the Women's Resource Center for the next Faculty Favorite Lecture with Roslyn Farrington from the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Portland State University. Roslyn's lecture is titled "Living the Dream of Beloved Community".

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream of a "beloved community", a community where all genders, races and ethnic backgrounds need not be represented in order to have their views and opinions considered - a truly integrated community. Dr. King said, “Our goal is to create beloved community and this will require a quantitative change in our lives as well as a qualitative change in our souls”.

Feminist author Bell Hooks embraced King’s idea of the beloved community, although she felt that it was flawed because in King’s vision, no one would see color (Killing, 263), that color would somehow be erased and racial differences forgotten. Hooks also stated that we all need to look at ourselves and see the ways in which we perpetuate the dominance of one culture over another; we need to examine how we relate to other people and determine where our attitudes come from instead of blindly accepting our belief system.

This Faculty Favorite lecture takes the dream Dr. King popularized and Bell Hooks gave us through the feminist lens and provides steps we can take in our daily lives to truly create and live in the beloved community here and now. For more information about this event, call the WRC at 503-725-5672 or contact Kari Anne McDonald, WRC Events Coordinator at karm@pdx.edu.

From soldier to student:
Combating PTSD and integration into collegiate life

Thursday, February 23rd, 4:30-6:30pm WRC Lounge
Hosted by the Women Veterans Outreach Action Team and the Viking Vets
Guest speakers Belle Bennett Landau, Executive Director Returning Veterans Project
and SSgt Eddie Black, USMC

Join us for an informational event about PTSD and MST (military sexual trauma) at the Women's Resource Center. The event will focus on veterans in transition and address the challenges that veterans face when returning to civilian life. We will also discuss how college campuses can develop an environment that fosters college success in veteran populations. For more information about this event, contact the Women Veteran Outreach Coordinator, Britni Mimms at bmimms@pdx.edu or call the Women's Resource Center at 503-725-5672.

About the speakers: Belle Landau has been the executive director at the Returning Veterans Project for two years. Her youngest son is an OIF veteran. Belle’s employment background includes developing violence prevention and early intervention programs and managing and raising funds for nonprofits that serve women, families and children. SSgt. Eddie Black, is a Marine veteran of Desert Storm and an OIF combat veteran. He is currently serving his country in the capacity of Reintegration Area Manager Southern Oregon, for the South Oregon Reintegration Team.

Women Veterans Outreach Action Team

Friday, February 24th
2:00-3:00pm WRC Lounge

The Women Veterans Outreach Action Team provides outreach to women vets, raises awareness about the unique needs of women veterans, identifies resources that would be beneficial to women veteran students, and works to create ties with Veterans’ Student Services. The Women Veterans Outreach Action Team typically meets twice a month, as announced. For more information, contact the Women Veteran Outreach Coordinator, Britni Mimms at bmimms@pdx.edu.

Take Back The Night
& Bike Back The Night
Committee Meeting

Wednesday, February 29th
5:00-6:30pm WRC Lounge

We have the power, we have the might, the streets are ours, Take Back the Night! Sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and The Portland Women's Crisis Line. Follow us on Facebook: Take Back the Night/Bike Back the Night. Unable to attend the meeting but are still interested in being involved in this year’s event? No problem! Just email us at tbtn.psu@gmail.com.

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