2017 Women’s Retreat: Know Your Strengths

2017 Women’s Retreat: Know Your Strengths

This year, we hosted the fourth Annual Whole Women’s Retreat at the Dickinson Farm. The Whole Women’s retreat was initiated by Jessica Libowitz ’15 as a way for female-identified people to have a safe space to come together to discuss topics related to women’s issues. For this year’s retreat, the theme was Know Your Strengths….

What’s “Gender Week,” You Ask?

What’s “Gender Week,” You Ask?

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Women’s and Gender Resource Center is sponsoring Dickinson College’s first Gender Week. Each event offers different ways to engage with the topic of gender in some way. Our goal is to engage the College community in dialogue and conversation about the intersection of gender with other identities, to…

The Whole Women’s Retreat: A History

The Whole Women’s Retreat: A History

It all started with a question: “Why is there a men’s retreat, but no women’s retreat?” From there it took me a year and a half (and several misfires) to build the right team, the right format, and the right interest to pull off Dickinson College’s first ever women’s retreat. On April 20-21, 2013, with…