Category — Miscellaneous

March 16, 2011  Engaging Men’s Capacity to End Gender Violence
12 noon  Pacifica Room, Student Union

What role do men and masculinity play in discussions of gender violence?  How do we constructively engage men as we envision a violence-free future?  Come hear Dr. Jason Laker (Office of the President) address this important issue.

March 17, 2011 Sowing the Seeds of Justice: The Story of Cruz Reynoso
6  pm  Morris Dailey Hall

Come watch a film about lawyer/activist/former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, followed by discussion with Reynoso and film maker Abby Ginzberg.  Suggested donation $5 for students and $10 general admission. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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FALL 2011

WOMS 169: Sexualities and the Body

M/W 1:30-2:45pm

Taught by Dr. Tanya Bakhru

• Learn about the politics of sexuality and the body from a feminist perspective
• Explore various aspects of sexuality and gendered bodies including identity, community, and social movements

For more information email Dr. Bakhru at Tanya.Bakhru@sjsu.edu

San Jose State University

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

March 2011

March 3, 2011                        WOWI Word Night

5:00 pm in the Student Cafe

Women On Women’s Issues (WOWI) hosts a spoken word open mic night.

March 5, 2011                        Womyn United: 2^nd Annual Womyn’s History March

10:30 am – 2:00pm from Roosevelt Park to San Jose City Hall

Presented by South Bay International Womyn’s Day Network.  March from Roosevelt Park (East Santa Clara and 19^th Streets) to San Jose City Hall (5^th and Santa Clara Streets).  Drum circle and dance rally to follow.  For more info and to get involved email iwdsouthbay@gmail.com

March 7, 2011                        Women in Local Politics:  Councilmember Rose Herrera

1:30 – 2:30pm in the Pacifica Room, Student Union

San Jose City Councilmember Rose Herrera speaks for Women’s History Month.

March 7, 2011                        Women’s Studies Open House

2:30 ­– 4:30 pm in the Pacifica Room, Student Union

This event is an opportunity for friends of the Women’s Studies Program to mix, mingle, and celebrate! Refreshments will be provided.

March 8, 2011                        Womyn’s Vision for San Jose

1:30 pm at City Hall of San Jose

Womyn United presents Womyn’s Vision for San Jose, during the City of San Jose’s City Council Meeting.

March 10, 2011            Save Ethnic Studies Tour

4:00 pm in Engineering Room 189

CFA Latina/o Caucus Presents Save Ethnic Studies Tour.  Guest speakers will include teachers from the Tucson Unified School District and members of “Save Ethnic Studies”.  The tour addresses Arizona’s recently passed House Bill 2281, which outlaws the teaching of Ethnic Studies in school.

March 10 at 6:00 pm            Vagina Monologues

and March 11-12 at 8:00 pm at Morris Dailey Auditorium

V-Day SJSU Presents Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues.  The proceeds of the V-Day SJSU 2011 will benefit women and children in Haiti and local nonprofit organizations.  Admission is $8 for students and $10 general admission.

March 16, 2011            Engaging Men’s Capacity to End Gender Violence

12:00 pm in the Pacifica Room, Student Union

Dr. Jason Laker will speak to attendees about the components of masculine gender roles, how these connect to violence, and how to apply this knowledge toward achieving a positive and violence free future together.

March 17, 2011            Sowing the Seeds of Justice: The Story of Cruz Reynoso

6:00 pm at Morris Dailey Hall

A screening of the film “Sowing the Seeds of Justice” followed by a conversation with Cruz Reynoso and film maker Abby Ginzberg.  Suggested donation $5 for students and $10 general admission. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

March 22, 2011            Working for Reproductive Justice

2:00 pm in MLK 255/257

Allana Moore, “Why Midwifery Matters”

Pati Garcia, “A History of Self-Help Reproductive Movements”

March 22, 2011            Know your Own: A Smart Sex Workshop

6:00 pm in the Guadalupe Room, Student Union

With Doula/Sexuality educator Pati Garcia

All events are open to the public.

Women’s Circle

2/23:  Self vs. other-care

3/2:   Communicate our needs

3/9:   Juggle multiple roles

3/16:  Manage emotions

Wednesdays, 1:30 – 2:50 pm

Admin, Rm 201

Contact Ellen or Neda (924-5910) to RSVP.  Space is limited.

This is an amazing performance by four Albuquerque students on the quality of their education, at the Brave New Voices poetry slam.  Enjoy!

Please circulate this 29-page pdf (click to download) to students and friends!

–from Educators for Fair Consideration

Just a reminder that the voter registration deadline is approaching.  Please be sure your students, friends, and colleagues are registered!  Here’s a handy link to a nonpartisan voter registration site….

CCCAC has now opened a will call list for SJSU student who would like to attend the event. Student on the will call list will receive a free ticket to the event at the door.

Students looking have their names placed on the will call list should email cccac@as.sjsu.edu subject “Dolores Huerta Will Call” and include their name, phone number, and SJSU ID.

From “The Feministing Five: Elaine Villasper” at Feministing blog.

“When I first got involved with GABRIELA, I was in college. I was really shocked by the issue of sex trafficking and how Filipinos are affected by sex trafficking. When I first started college, I didn’t know that Filipino women were affected by so many issues. I had grown up in the US undocumented, so I didn’t have a lot of access to information or even just basic history of Filipinos and Filipino-Americans, until I got to college. It was the first time I was learning a lot of these things, that there was a sex trade, and that people were making money off of it, off of the bodies of women. And it really struck me because at the time I was thinking, “that could be me.” These women, they’re me. They’re my age, they could be my cousins, my family. Any of us could easily have fallen into the sex trade or been victimized in the same way, because I lived in the same conditions that these women are living in right now. So when those realizations came to me, that was when I decided that I had to do something.

Elaine Villasper is the Vice Chair of Education for GABRIELA USA, the North American chapter of the Filipino women’s rights organization. …Villasper helps to teach basic organizing skills, trains young leaders and helps to educate the local community about issues that affect Filipino and Filipino-American women. GABRIELA USA runs a number of cultural and artistic programs here in the US, as well as the Back to the Motherland program, which enables Filipino-Americans to travel to the Philippines to gain a better grasp of the pressing political, socioeconomic and human rights issues on the ground there. Here in the US, the organization works on issues like domestic violence, workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights and political representation for the Filipino-American population.

Read the interview with Villasper here

I thought this was a wonderful exercise in dreaming out loud for civil rights and equality….this court would actually look  like our students!   See the full article here, with details about “the court” and those who nominated them.

Dale Minami, civil rights attorney;  Lani Guinier, Harvard law prof/activist; Goodwin Liu, Berkeley law prof; Patricia Williams, Columbia law prof; Harold Koh, lawyer/scholar; Marsha Berzon, 9th Circuit federal appeals judge; Jackie Berrien, EEOC chair; Gerald Lopez, UCLA law prof; and Jed Rakoff, federal district judge.

And be sure to check out the newly re-launched ColorLines webmagazine, now a fully digital publication.