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Using a gender-based lens, “Stereotypes & Soundbites: Re-imagining the Center of Political Discourse” aims to highlight often marginalized voices and pose solutions that come from the communities most affected by these challenges.
The fall season is focusing on perspectives about, and work being done, to keep marginalized voices from being silenced about issues and events that have direct, powerful and life-changing effects on everyday lives.
Speaker Debra Fitzpatrick opens the discussion with her presentation “Beyond ‘Those People’: Minnesota Women Experiencing Poverty” at noon Sept. 14 in the Atwood Theatre in the Atwood Memorial Center.
Women experiencing poverty in Minnesota face a variety of realities where poverty intersects with race, sexuality and ability. Every two years the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota publishes the “Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota Research Report”, which highlights how gender is related to educational attainment, wage disparities, poverty, housing security, safety and other measures of well-being of Minnesotans.
Fitzpatrick will explore these realities as well as solutions for change. As director of the Center on Women and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Fitzpatrick leads a partnership with the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota examining the status of women and girls in Minnesota and advancing public policies.
Other topics during the fall Women on Wednesday lecture series will explore race, immigration, Muslim women in politics, transgender rights, reproductive rights and water issues.
The noon-hour Women on Wednesday lecture series put on by the St. Cloud State University Women’s Center brings diverse women and programming to St. Cloud State to cover political, social, legal and economic issues affecting women’s lives. Lectures are held on select Wednesdays at noon in the Atwood Theatre in the Atwood Memorial Center. Admission is free and open to the public.