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Tune in to hear bell hooks interviewed on 99.5 FM WBAI Pacifica Radio Thursday, March 18 at 12 noon to 1pm EST. She’ll be promoting her newest book, Teaching Critical Thinking (Routledge, 2010).  WBAI is New York’s Pacifica radio station, accessible online.

Join us for a wonderful afternoon talk with sex educator Carol Queen!   Writer and cultural sexologist Carol Queen offers observations about women’s sexuality and discusses key issues like information, desire, boundaries, support, and communication — including specific tools that may help any woman learn what she wants for her sexuality, and move toward achieving it.

Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology.  She has a long history of organizing in local and international lesbian/gay communities, including co-founding one of the first gay youth groups in the United States.  She is a worker/owner at Good Vibrations, the women-owned, worker-owned sex toy and book emporium, where she directs Continuing Education for the staff. She also organizes workshops at The Center for Sex and Culture, a non-profit sexuality education center which my partner Dr. Robert Lawrence and I have spent the last several years organizing.

The multialented queen writes explicit fiction and memoir, essays, commentary, analysis, book and film/video reviews, reportage, and interviews.  She publishes a sex and relationship advice column which is available at the Good Vibrations Magazine.

Please join us Wednesday at 1:30-2:45 in Engineering 189.

Related links:
www.goodvibes.com
www.sexandculture.org
www.carolqueen.com

Students Majoring in any of the Social Sciences are Invited to Apply for
Spring 2010 College of Social Sciences Scholarships
(DEADLINE: 3/25/10, to WSQ 103)

Seven scholarships will be awarded to students majoring in the Social Sciences.  Both undergraduate and graduate students may apply.  Last year’s scholarship recipients are not eligible to apply for any of these scholarships during Spring 2010.

• SJSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DEANS’ SCHOLARSHIPS (2) • $1,250  (The SJSU Alumni Scholarship is awarded to a student only once during their academic career at SJSU.  This scholarship will be disbursed Fall 2010 and is only available to students enrolling at SJSU for Fall 2010. Scholarship applicants must demonstrate community service or participation in student organizations.)
• GERALD WHEELER SCHOLARSHIP (1) • $1,000
• CHARLES BURDICK SCHOLARSHIPS (1) • $1,000 (student must demonstrate financial need based on the 09-10 FAFSA – FAFSA must be on file in the SJSU Financial Aid Office)
• INEZ AND DONALD BURDICK SCHOLARSHIPS (1) • $1,000 (student must demonstrate financial need based on the 09-10 FAFSA – FAFSA must be on file in the SJSU Financial Aid Office

Application available here in MSWord format or here in PDF format [Read more →]

Come learn how SJSU Women’s Studies alumni are making change in local communities with Noemi Teppang, Lindsey Mansfield, and Margie Strubel.  From 10:30 – 11:45 in MLK Library rooms 255/257

A strong editorial in the Sacramento bee by Joseph Palermo:

Sometimes I think there are two Californias out there. One of them is the California of small things and small thinking. It’s the California that is obsessed with petty anti-tax politics. The one that wants to gut social programs and dismantle our public higher education system. It thrives on driving wedges between us and promoting divisiveness.

It’s the California of Proposition 187 (cutting services to illegal immigrants), Nixon, Reagan and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It includes a lot of people who hate government but are the first to complain when the garbage isn’t picked up.

The other California is the California of bold ideas and dreams of a better future. It’s the California that wants to conserve and protect its unique and beautiful state parks and wilderness, wishes to invest in its people and seeks common ground amid diversity.

It’s the California of Proposition 215 (legalizing medical marijuana), John Muir, Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk. It’s the California that recognizes the vital role that our public colleges and universities play in laying the foundation for the state’s future.

Story continues at Sacbee

Womyn United:  International Womyns’ Day Marcha & Festival 2010

March begins 11am at Roosevelt Park, continues down Santa Clara and First Street to the Biblioteca Latinoamericana.  Festival from 1 to 4pm with vendors, food, and entertainment.

Participating Organizations: Cihuatl Tlatocan (MAIZ), FOCUS-SV, Silicon Valley
DEBUG, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, Women’s International League for Peace and  Freedom , San Jose CodePink, SJSU WoWi (Womyn on Womyn’s Issues), Santa Clara County’s Office on Women’s Policy,  LGBTQ Youth Spaces, SOMOS Mayfair, Cardea Center for Women, Bay Area Radical Women, SJSU Women’s Studies.

Cihuatl Tlatocan  is a women’s based mass organization whose vision seeks the liberation of Mexican womyn at an individual and community level, in a collective struggle towards social change and is a member organization of the MAIZ Alliance  (Movimiento de Accion, inspirando Servicio). Questions?  Cihuatl.Tlatocan@gmail.com

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3/2 Women’s Studies Open House, 3-6pm , DMH 238A

3/2 Max Dashu on Women Shamans from far-ranging cultural backgrounds, ancient to modern, 6pm Boccardo 003.

3/3 Chicanas in the Movimiento – 6-8pm Mexican Heritage Center, 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

3/3 Film Screening of Arusi: Persian Wedding
Followed by Q&A with Director Marjan Tehrani. 7pm in Eng 189.

3/4 Statewide Day of Action in Support of Education –
Multiple events locally, statewide, nationally

3/ 4 & 3/5 The Vagina Monologues! Morris Daily Auditorium. At 5pm March 4, 5 & 8 pm March 5

3/6 “Womyn Unite” – International Women’s Day March, 11am from Roosevelt Park, Festival continues from 1-4pm.

3/8 Transfigurations, photodocumentary by SJSU alum Jana Marcus, 6pm University Room

3/9 Panel Discussion 7pm, Engr 189 Featuring filmmaker Dr. Annalise Ophelian, Cecilia Chung and Renata J. Razza

3/10 “Trans 101 with America’s Transexual Sweetheart Calpernia Addams”. Followed by panel discussion, noon, University Room. Also resource fair, 12-3pm

3/11 Women’s Studies Alumni Panel, 10:30-11:45. In MLK Library rooms 255/257

3/11 Cabaret Benefit Performance by Calpernia Adams, 7pm University Room

3/17 Sex & Love in the Bay Area with Sexologist Carol Queen, 1:30–2:45 Eng 189

3/17 Literary Reading with Laleh Khadivi, The Age of Orphans, 7pm in MLK Schiro Room, Steinbeck Center, 5th floor.

3/17 Reading with Karen Offen, Globalizing Feminisms, MLK Library, 7pm

3/24 Liz Burke, “Classism: How it Effects Our Lives,” 5pm at MOSAIC

3/25 A Salute to Women Veterans, 5:30pm Lobby Breezeway, County Government Center, 70 W. Hedding Ave, SJ

4/7 Andrew House,”White Privilege: Identifying & Understanding”, at MOSAIC: Cross Cultural Center.

Please join us for conversation, games, music and refreshments with faculty and friends of the Women’s Studies program.  We are happy to kick off a full roster of events for Women’s History Month 2010.  In DMH238A from 3-6pm.

Also please see the left column of the blog (click here) for a Main Index of Women’s History Month events, including WOWI, Transexual Awareness Week, and more… let us know if you have events to be added!

Dear Campus Community and Friends of Women’s Studies

On Tuesday, March 2nd, the course I teach on “Gender, Sexuality and Religion” will host Max Dashu, director of the Suppressed History Archives in Oakland.  She will be speaking on the vast legacy of Women Shamans from far-ranging cultural backgrounds, ancient to modern.  We’ve moved to a larger room to accommodate visitors: please feel free to join us.  The class runs from 6:00 to 8:45 pm, in Boccardo Business Classroom 003 (ground floor, accessed from the courtyard).  Click on the links below for more background on Max and the specific talk she is presenting on Tuesday.  Hope to see you there:

Date: Tuesday, March 2nd
Where: Boccardo Business Classroom 003 (BBC 003)
When: 6:00 PM
Who: Max Dashu, Director, Suppressed History Archives
What: Talk on Women Shamans
Hosted: Prof. Jennifer Rycenga, Comparative Religious Studies class on Gender, Sexuality and Religion

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/
http://www.suppressedhistories.net/catalog/womanshaman.html

Jennifer Rycenga
Professor, Comparative Religious Studies and Humanities