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The Spring 2021 Co-Curricular Guide Is Now Available! Spring 2021 Calendar Potential Discussion Course/Career Date/Time/Place Event Description Projected Outcomes Questions/Activities, Suggested Connections Readings January 20 SayHerName: Building As a community Facilitators will guide Recommended Readings: Noon-1PM Community to Support Women of building event, we participants through BBC (2020). Black Trans Lives Matter: 'We're encourage those discussions on the tired of having to pick sides.' June Color at OHIO who have been following: 15. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article Register by 1/18/21 directed impacted 1) Building an effective, /33ab8fbd-792f-44ee-85de-5dd3894f60bf at: The themed discussion on January by racism and social supportive https://ohio.qualt 20th is focused on self-care for sexism, as well as community when in a Chen, Grace A., Helen A. Neville, Jioni A. rics.com/jfe/form social justice advocates. other interlinked virtual environment Lewis, Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez- forms of 2) Defining self-care and Dueñas, Della V. Mosley, & Bryana H. French /SV_bd6zYSudzXR oppression, and self-preservation while (2019). Radical Self-Care in the Face of Dcs5 Sparked by the Division for their allies, to advocating for social Mounting Racial Stress. Nov 15. Psychology Log-in Diversity and Inclusion's Public attend. justice Today. information for Forum on Breonna Taylor: 3) The potential https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog the event will be Mourning, Reflecting, Moving As a program psychological impacts /healing-through-social- of advocacy on topics justice/201911/radical-self-care-in-the- sent on 1/20/2021. Forward, SayHerName is an created to build community, we related to one’s identity face-mounting-racial-stress ongoing commitment to ask that people and discrimination our participants. These are not be required to Ohio University’s Counseling and gatherings of those directly attend, but invite Psychological Services. Self-Care for impacted by racism and sexism, as all who desire to Student Activists & Anyone Engaging in well as other interlinked forms of attend. Challenging Conversations. https://www.ohio.edu/student- oppression, and their allies. They affairs/counseling/self-care-challenging- are created to build a community conversations of support and to serve as a public space for expression. We will begin Paz, Isabella Grullón and Maggie Astor each program with a moment of (2020). Black Trans Women Seek More Space in the Movement They Helped silence for the women who have Start. New York Times. June been killed, and recognizing the 27. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/ us/politics/black-trans-lives-matter.html 1 lives lost and the legacy of women Ritchie, Andrea (2017). Invisible No More: like Breonna Taylor. Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. Beacon Press: Massachusetts. All are welcome to attend. Recommended Viewing: Watch the interview with Kimberlé Crensaw and Sheinelle Jones of TODAY (2020): Kimberlé Crenshaw shares importance of the Say Her Name movement https://www.today.com/video/kimberle- crenshaw-shares-importance-of-the-say- her-name-movement-85807685887 There are a number of webinars provided by the African American Policy Forum, Inc. https://aapf.org/webinars Allies may benefit from viewing this video about allyship vs co-conspiratorship (link is to a CSPAN user clip featuring Bettina Love). January 20 Social Media Campaign: Political African American 1) Improve familiarity with Recommended Activities: Throughout the Firsts Studies the history of women’s 1. Review and analyze social media posts involvement in politics about the inauguration and VP Elect day Cutler Scholars 2) Assess structural Kamala Harris, paying particular Today we recognize a first in the barriers that have attention to posts that connect to Find us on Twitter history of women’s political Diversity Studies prevented women’s issues of gender and race. Asks (@OHIOWomenCe engagement: the first woman of Certificate equitable participation students to choose three to five posts nter) and/or follow color and first woman to be our 3) Consider the impact of to analyze. Posts could demonstrate History diverse representation sexism and racism, and/or the power of #WomensPolitical Vice President of the United within government diverse representation. Firsts. States, Vice President Kamala Honors Tutorial 2. Ask students to identify one of the Harris. In recognition of this College political firsts highlighted in our social political first, the Women’s Center media campaign who is unfamiliar to will be posting other political firsts Global Leadership them, and conduct research on them. 3. Analyze the effectiveness of different for women throughout the day on Law, Justice, PACs that have the goal of increasing Twitter. Culture diversity within government, and develop a plan to encourage LGBTQ Studies marginalized populations to run for 2 The Women’s Center is non- office. You may find it helpful to partisan, and we support Media Arts and encourage students to explore Studies – Media organizations such as EMILY’s List or educational opportunities to learn and Social Change Log Cabin Republicans. about women’s history, and the barriers that have been presented Political Science Explore that have prohibited women from The National Women’s History Museum’s equal access to the legislative, Social Media virtual exhibit, First but Not the Last: Certificate Women Who Ran for President (2020): executive, and judicial process. https://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/fi Just last year, we celebrated the Sociology rst-not-last centennial of the 19th Amendment, and asked folk to engage with us Women’s, Gender Center for American Women and Politics’ about the ways in which women and Sexuality Milestones for Women in American Politics: Studies https://cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/milestones have been able to participate in -for-women voting, and the ways in which there are still barriers, Recommended Reading #AthensOHSuffrage. Astor, Maggie (2020). Kamala Harris and the ‘Double Bind’ of Racism and Sexism. New York Times. Oct 9. Retrieved at: We encouraged you then, as we https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/p encourage you now, to read about olitics/kamala-harris-racism-sexism.html Jim Crow laws and other obstacles to voting and political Lerer, Lisa and Sydney Ember (2020). participation. We hope that this Kamala Harris Makes History as First Woman and Woman of Color as Vice program, and programs like this, President. New York Times. Nov 7. assist individuals in understanding https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/p democracy and voting rights olitics/kamala-harris.html generally. Recommended Viewing The New York Times, Finish the Fight (Aired As we detail these political firsts, online July 18, 2020, available for streaming) we want to acknowledge that our - "A virtual play, celebrating the unsung social media followers may all have heroes of suffrage." different feelings about the legacies that these elected, and PBS, The Vote (Aired online July 7, 2020, available for streaming) - "The Vote tells the appointed, officials have left dramatic culmination story of the hard- behind, or are still creating. Our fought campaign waged by American 3 hope today is to create space to women for the right to vote — a acknowledge these moments in transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest women’s history, and to encourage expansion of voting rights in U.S. history." you to read about their legacies and to understand how that Selma (motion picture, 2014) - explores the connects to your own values and fight for voting rights and Jim Crow laws. beliefs. • Discussion Guides and Recommended Reading to pair with your viewing The views reflected in the posts by of Selma others using o A free film guide is provided by #WomensPoliticalFirsts, or Into Film and can be retrieved otherwise in connection to the from: https://www.intofilm.org /resources/187. In order to community sharing of content for access the guide, you must this event, may not reflect the create an account. views of the organizers or of Ohio o A free discussion guide, which University's Women's Center. includes a timeline, list of important figures, discussion questions, and activities, is available through Tolerance.org at: http://www.tolerance.org/s ites/default/files/kits/Selma- The%20Bridge%20to%20the% 20Ballot%20Viewers%20Guide .pdf o Dean, Michelle (2015). Selma Puts Women At The Center Of The Civil Rights Movement. January 5. Refinery29. https://www.refi nery29.com/en-us/selma-ava- duvernay-movie-review January 21 AAUW Start Smart Salary We strongly 1) Provide students with Recommended Discussion Questions 4-6PM Negotiation encourage all the skills needed to 1) What is the gender wage gap? graduating seniors negotiate their first 2) How does the wage gap impact people to attend in order salary of different identity groups? to be prepared for 4 This program Co-sponsored with the Graduate the salary 2) Educate students on 3) How will you articulate your worth in a counts towards a College and supported by the negotiation how to construct a job interview or salary negotiation? process; however, budget and do city cost She Leads OHIO Career and Leadership all are welcome to comparisons Recommended Readings: requirement (the Development Program attend. 3) Define the wage gap, Ask students to explore the different topics Women’s Center’s and how it impacts on the AAUW’s website on career and professional This two-hour AAUW workshop everyone (not just workplace issues for women: leadership provides students with the skills women) https://www.aauw.org/issues/equity/gende 4) Determine what can be red-workforce/; and on the Institute for program). needed to negotiate their first done to combat the Women’s Policy Research’s website: salary. wage gap https://iwpr.org/issue/employment- Register by 1/19/21 education-economic-change/pay-equity- at **Due to our licensing agreement discrimination/ https://ohio.qualt with the AAUW, this workshop is Recommended Activity: rics.com/jfe/form only available for members of the Encourage your students to create a /SV_0oDdJ4AWw Ohio University community.** realistic budget for themselves after DI26kR.
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