Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Upcoming Events

College of Charleston NOW presents:
"Slim Hopes: The Media's Obsession with Thinness"
Wednesday at 6pm in EDCTR 101
followed by a discussion led by Dr. Alison Piepmeier
Barbie shirts and Riot Don't Diet buttons
will be sold at the event!

Women's and Gender Studies hosts Third Thursday:
WGS Book Group Celebration
Sisterhood, Interrupted by Deborah Siegel
Thursday, March 20 5:00-6:30pm
Alumni Center (St. Phillip's and Wentworth)
Come join us for a discussion and various chocolates provided by local Sugar
we have two more copies of the book for FREE in the office, Maybank 119!

Thursday, January 31, 2008

saturday meeting!

Hellooo everywoman!Our February meeting is this Saturday (Feb. 2) at 5:00 and will be held at the lovely and esteemed Grace Davis' house (54B Vanderhorst St.). This meeting will focus on a women's literature share, so xerox your favorite essay, poem, venn diagram, WHATEVER, and bring it on down.Also, if anyone is interested in being trained to teach feminist self-defense, please get in touch with me asap. The instructor is kick-ass.We will have tickets for the Vagina Monologues available for purchase at the meeting. The pricing is as follows: $20 for the community, $12 for students, or $10 with the donation of women's undergarments or hygiene products. All proceeds go to Magdalene House and My Sister's House. So, BRING US ALL OF YOUR MONEY. The show is going to be great this year, I can personally vouch for that...If you have any questions, shoot 'em at me. See you all Saturday!
- Jenna

I unfortunately will not be at the meeting this week, I will be out of town. So someone be sure to take notes!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

to my fellow friends

I would like to conduct a self defense session for our april meeting. how does everyone feel about that?
-Liz

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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WHAT DOES THE WORD QUEER MEAN TO YOU?

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Vagina Monologues Info

Hello Everyone!

Here is some information about the Vagina Monologues:

Performances:
Friday, Feburary 15th @ 7pm and Midnight
Physician's Auditorium

Auditions:
Saturday, January 19th 2-6pm
Physician's Auditorium

Interest/Volunteer Meeting
Wednesday, January 23rd
Time and Place TBA

Recipients of Profits:
My Sister's House
Magdalene House of Charleston

Discounted tickets will be available to those who bring a donation. Donations include New underware and bras, House Shoes or any type of Hygiene product.

grace

Saturday, January 5, 2008

New Year New Cheer

Our fist meeting of 2008 was very exciting. We made lots of plans. Here is a recap of what is coming up:

We will be celebrating French Feminist writer Simone de' Beavoirs 100th birthday on wednesday Jan 9th with a Tea Party. It will be held at 8pm at Grace's house at 54B Vanderhorst street.

In honor of a lost tradition of celebrating a girls entrance into womanhood, we decided to throw our own celebration. On saturday Jan 12th we will be throwing a period party! It has not been decided where it will be yet. Everyone is welcome to this party. If men want to celebrate periods they are totally welcome.

Before the party at 7 we will meet at Melinda's house at 0 Tradd street for craft time. Camy suggested bringing an over sized button down red shirt to make capes with. We will all bike together to the party as an all girl bike gang. Keep thinking of idea's for a name for our bike gang.

As a group we feel there is a need for more people to help with clinic defense on Saturday mornings. If you are available this Saturday meet at 6:40am in the parking lot behind Grace's house. We know no one wants to do this every Saturday, but lets try to make sure there are a couple of people there each week for support. Jamie posted more information on clinic defense below.

I am going to be ordering "This Insults Women" stickers soon. They are 25 cents apiece, let me know if you would like some or anything else from www.stickersisters.com. We can save on shipping costs and package materials.

Other things we talked about were the vagina monologues and the related art show(I will have grace post more details), making a zine as a collective, harassment in the work place, natural birth control, and feminist theater.

We forgot to talk more about the advertisements for feminism, we can talk about this Wednesday or at the next meeting.

For the next meeting, which will be held at Grace's house on February 2nd, we want each person to bring one zine, article, or essay to start a women's literature swap. The next meeting we will all give informal summaries and discussions of what we read.

I know this is a lot but it is just the start of what can be a very productive year. Remember, Beth has invited us all to her house for Brunch tomorrow (Sunday) at 1 and she will be leading a yoga class a Grace's house at 7 pm.

If I left anything out or you have any questions please feel free to let me know.


<3Kim