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Let's talk about sex. Come learn about all areas of sexual well-being from abstinence to safe sex to STDs.
Sponsored by FMLA (Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance ) and Mercer Student Health Services.
“Lynn Powell’s Old and New Testaments is a reclaiming of spiritual texts and traditions for a woman’s life in the body—a life of childhood physicality, female sexuality, procreation, and nurturing love.” Alicia Ostriker
Sponsored by: The Center for Baptist Studies, WGS, and the GA Poetry Circuit
Produced entirely by Mercer students, this play explores the ways in which women have been taught to feel ashamed of their bodies and have been brutalized by rape and violence. The play moves towards women’s celebrating their bodies and selves.
$5 donations will be collected at the door for the Crisis Line of Central Georgia to provide support for victims of assault, rape, and domestic abuse.
The play contains graphic language and sexual content.
Sponsored by: FMLA (Mercer’s chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance) and the WGS Program.
If Barbie were a real person, could she stand up? What does the popularity of plastic surgery say about how the average person relates to his or her body? How do you feel about your body?
Sponsored by: CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)
Think that human trafficking does not affect Georgia? Think again. This forum will discuss aspects of human trafficking, modern slavery, and how this issue could be present in Middle Georgia.
Over the course of her life, Bharati Mukherjee has experienced several momentous social changes or what she describes as “tilt times.” Come hear her discuss growing up in India in the 1940’s as so many aspects of the traditional patriarchal culture were being challenged, her immigration to the U.S. in the 1960’s during the beginnings of the feminist movement, and her reflections on being an American woman now.
Sponsored by: The WGS Program, Quadworks, FMLA, SGA, and the Dean’s Office.
(Photo credit: Emma Dodge Hanson)
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