We were very happy to welcome Patricia Valoy to campus as the keynote speaker for our second annual Gender Week. The theme of the week is Gender and STEM, so Valoy was a perfect choice. She’s an engineer and project manager, Latina, feminist writer, and STEM advocate. Valoy generously shared her personal journey and experiences,…
“We want to see Latinas coming together.” This sentiment appeared over and over again on the bright green index cards I collected at the end of our most recent Latina Discussion Group meeting. The beauty of this statement’s repetition was that it happened at the end of a meeting during which Latinas from across campus,…
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…