Contact: Allison Matthews
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is observing Women’s History Month throughout March with a variety of online and on-campus events.
The observance kicked off March 1 on social media with the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center’s spotlight on “What is Women’s History Month.” Students, faculty and staff will reflect all month on the importance of women’s history.
HCDC and the Gender Studies Program have launched a virtual lunch series, which continues on WebEx March 9: “Protest Pageantry: Femininity, Race and Respectability in the Public Sphere” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Hilary Levey Friedman of Brown University; March 18: “Pigs and Pickets: Black Women and the Fight for Economic Justice” by Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Shennette Garrett-Scott of the University of Mississippi; and March 25: “Marriage Equality Didn’t Solve Everything: LGBTQ Parenting Post Obergefell v. Hodges” by Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for Sociology Katie Acosta of Georgia State University. Register at https://tinyurl.com/zzfxddcz.
Additional upcoming events include:
Monday, March 8, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Drill Field, International Women’s Day Celebration. Join the Holmes Cultural Diversity Center to celebrate International Women’s Day with free giveaways and a photobooth.
Thursday, March 11, 6 p.m., Taylor Auditorium, Self Defense Women’s Workshop. Join the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness and MSU Police Department during “No More” Week for a self-defense workshop to learn about the R.A.D. program and the basics of hands-on defense training. This is not a martial arts program, but prevention awareness to share techniques and tactics needed in harmful situations.
Friday March 19, 11 a.m.-Noon, Webex, Let’s Break to Educate: MS Advocacy Initiatives. Join the MSU Office of Survivor Support to celebrate the month with an awareness event highlighting local and statewide advocacy services related to sexual assault, dating/domestic violence and stalking. Free lunch vouchers will be available for the first 25 participants. Register at https://msstate.webex.com/msstate/j.php?MTID=mf2c4df6ccd34646091b4e31378e6cb9b. After signing up, participants will receive a confirmation email with instructions to pick up vouchers.
Friday, March 19, 8 p.m., Sanderson Center Parking Lot, Movie Screening of Homecoming. Join Student Activities and Music Makers for a drive-in movie of Homecoming, a 2019 concert film about American singer Beyonce and her performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Homecoming is a celebration of Black excellence, and the empowerment of HBCUs in the United States.
Wednesday, March 31, 12:30 pm, Virtual Event, Auntie Sewing Squad: Radical Care, Social Justice and Mask Making during COVID-19. Join the Gender Studies Program as it hosts performance artist and comedian Kristina Wong, who will share her pandemic journey from out-of-work performer to unlikely leader of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a national mask sewing collective that formed at the top of the pandemic to distribute cloth masks to the most vulnerable of communities. For registration, contact the Gender Studies Program at 662-325-0587.
All Month, International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month Social Media Campaign. Photos from the photobooth will be made into a collage and shared. Social media users also will have the opportunity to share their own pictures on “what they choose to challenge” with references to WHM hashtags.
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