On Monday, January 29, the Women’s and Gender Resource Center, Healthy Masculinities Initiative and Athletics screened Tough Guise II, the 2013 update of Jackson Katz’s acclaimed 1999 Tough Guise. This screening was the first in our 3-film series on Contemporary Masculinities. The other films to be screened are The Empathy Gap (Feb. 19 at 7…
On Monday, January 22, 2018, Dickinson College hosted our inaugural Spring into the Semester Common Reading Program. Almost 50 faculty, staff, students and alumni met in the Waidner-Spahr Library to discuss Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Proposed by Jessica Howard (Waidner-Spahr Library) and me, the common reading program is designed to provide shared intellectual experiences,…
I recently finished Kate Harding’s book, Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture-and What We Can Do About It (2015). In our current moment, when courageous survivors are coming forward every day to share their experiences of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment, it continues to be a timely read. It is both…