Northwestern University Women's Center

03/06/2023

Registration for this amazing webinar is open to all! ASL and CART are provided. This Thursday!

12/06/2022

If you hung out with us this quarter (attended a program, talk, training, open house, reading group, etc.) be sure to fill out our post event evaluation form! You will be entered in a raffle and possibly win a ticket to our quarterly feminist field trip ✨✨✨ Link also in our bio!

Image Descriptions:
1: At the top of the page, In bold letters, says "Thank you for joining us!" Below this, there is a QR code and text that says "Before you leave please scan this to your phone to fill out our quick post-event evaluation form." Near the bottom of the page there is text that says "By providing your valuable feedback, you help us create even better programming and.. you could win our quarterly feminist field trip raffle!" At the bottom of the page is the link from the QR code: www.northwestern.edu/womenscenter/feedback.html

2: In the top right corner, next to the title, is a photograph of dancers performing. Below the title, the text says "Every quarter we go on a fun local outing (concert, performance, sports game, workshop, etc.) that supports women, trans, non-binary, and/or gender expansive people. It's a great chance to meet new people and explore cool events happening in Evanston and Chicago!" Below this text, in the bottom left corner, is a photograph of the Northwestern Women's Basketball team. Next to the image, is a numbered list of directions one must do to be entered in next quarter's feminist field trip. The lists says: 1. Attend a Women's Center event or program. 2. Provide your valuable feedback via our post-event evaluation form. Next to this direction is an arrow pointing to a QR code where one can fill out the form. 3. Your name will be entered in next quarter's feminist field trip raffle! At the bottom of the page, in small bold letters, the text says "open to anyone who attends a Women's Center event!"

11/16/2022

We so cute

11/11/2022

Join us as we welcome back last year’s feminist in residence, Je-Shawna, for an evening of healing, reflection, and storytelling! Register at the link in our bio!

Image description: Poster with black starry background for a virtual event titled "Earthseed Black Family Archival project: Roots & Reflections" hosted by the NU Women's Center, African American Studies, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, One Book, Department of History, School of Communications. In the center of the poster are images of the three panelists.

Text: Earthseed Roots & Reflections is an offering from members of the Earthseed Black Family Archive Project, a national cohort of black changemakers and cultural workers who spent a year delving into their collective and family history. With the intention to heal through exploration, history and storytelling panelists Christen Smiley (R) and Jakalia Brown (L) will discuss their experience and the importance of documenting historical legacies of black intimate life in creating liberated futures with Earthseed founder and 2021-2022 Women’s Center Feminist in Residence Fellow, JeShawna Wholley (center). This webinar features a screening of showcase shorts and conversation with the artists who created them." The event is virtual on Tuesday, November 15th. 5:30-7pm CST. For more information & to register, go to bit.ly/EarthseedReflections

10/11/2022

09/21/2022

Welcome all first year and transfer students!! Join us next Wednesday evening for s’mores, music, crafts and community and hear from some rad student groups and campus resources here to support you and your whole self!

** This event will be outside on the grass near a paved walkway that is accessible via the parking lot. Chairs for sitting will be available. Masks will be available and are highly encouraged when in close proximity to others and required to access the restroom inside the Women's Center.
Please reach out to [email protected] for any questions or concerns!

09/20/2022

Exciting Stuff tomorrow, Tuesday!
1. The first meeting of CARE and the WC's Q***r Parenting Group
2. Our mega-fall-back-to-school newsletter drops!

09/19/2022

Every year we at the Women’s Center choose an overarching theme that we use to guide the content of our programs for the upcoming year. We strive to choose a topic that is engaging and relevant and better equips us all to respond to the current social and political moment. We treat this as an opportunity and commitment to challenging ourselves and growing deeper into our feminist and anti-oppression values. In this particular moment where there has been an ongoing escalation of legislative threats and attacks on bodily autonomy, some critical guidance on how to help each other survive can be found in the archives of harm reduction.

With inherent overlaps with the practices and philosophies of mutual aid and disability justice, our themes from the past two years, harm reduction calls into question the compulsory paternalism present in the common impulse to decide what is best for others. What does it really mean to support one another? How do judgment and shame show up in our approaches to offering or accepting solidarity and care? What does consensual allyship look like? This year we will explore answers to these questions together as well as the tensions they may bring up. We’ve chosen the theme Lessons from Harm Reduction in hopes to discover what the origins and legacy of this body of work can teach us about how to decenter shame and stigma and re-center empowerment and dignity in our stories.

Subscribe to our newsletter (dropping tomorrow!) to learn more. Link in bio!

Thank you for this beautiful artwork ✨✨✨

09/19/2022

Join us in exploring this year's programming theme "Lessons from Harm Reduction!" Stay tuned and learn more in tomorrow's newsletter! Subscribe here:
https://www.northwestern.edu/womenscenter/news-reports/subscribe-to-newsletter/index.html

Artwork by Mariah-Rose Marie.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A colorful illustration of five people holding one another. From bottom left clockwise: a fat Arabic woman in a wheelchair smiles up at a light skinned black person with short blonde hair and a t-shirt that says “trans rights”, who rests their hand on her shoulder. To their right is a tall dark skinned black trans woman in bright blue who gazes at the viewer. Smiling at her on her right is an indigenous american woman with a long braid, who holds the hand of a smiling Asian trans man wearing a shirt that says “sex work is work”. Where their hands touch each other, semi-transparent halos of pink light with little stars glow. Behind the black trans woman is a pink sun throwing rays across a baby blue background.

In the rays are the phrases “NO ONE IS DISPOSABLE”, “SELF-DETERMINATION”, “RELATIONSHIP IS EVERYTHING”, “CHANGE ISN’T LINEAR”, “BODY AUTONOMY”, and “DISABILITY JUSTICE”. Above them is “Northwestern University Women’s Center 2022-2023” and below them “LESSONS FROM HARM REDUCTION”. The illustration is subtly signed by the artist “mariah-rose marie”.