Women’s Center celebrates National Women’s History Month with their “2022 National Women’s HERstory Month” series featuring Women on Wednesday sessions, a campus watch party debuting the 2022 Status of Women & Girls Report by the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, and a keynote presentation by activist and author Chris Stark on her book “Carnival Lights” and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
Body Mods for EVERY Body
12:-12:50 p.m. March 16, Atwood Theatre
This Panel Explores tattoo culture and its complicated and joyful intersections with gender.
2022 Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota
12-1 p.m. March 17, Voyageurs South, Atwood Memorial Center
Join us for a watch party of a live, virtual presentation by Dr. Christina Ewig, Gloria Perez, and Shawntera Harty on the profound inequities that persist for women and girls in Minnesota
(Not An) Open House
11 a.m.-1 p.m. March 21, Atwood Lounge and Atwood Memorial Center 218
Stop by our table in the Atwood Lounge for trivia, then join us upstairs at the Women’s Center for the Votes for Women exhibit, treats, and prizes you won’t want to miss
Beyond the Label
12-12:50 p.m. March 23, Atwood Theatre
A panel of disability advocates will discuss and explore the labors of women and non-binary people living with disabilities
What’s Our Story?
6:30 p.m. March 29, Atwood Theatre
Author and activist Chris Stark speaks about her new novel, Carnival Lights, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Minnesota
Birthing While Black
12-12:50 p.m. Atwood Theater, March 30
J’Mag Karbeah, a Ph.D. student in the Health and Services Research, Policy, and Administration program at the U of M, reviews Black pregnancy-related mortality, a social crisis rooted in implicit bias and structural racism
The series is presented by the Women’s Center along with KVSC, the American Indian Center, Multicultural Student Services and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
