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The Women’s Student Union and Women’s Studies Program at SUNY Fredonia will present a month-long series of events for Women’s History Month, which occurs annually in March. This year the Women’s Student Union has brought a wealth of speakers to discussion different issues facing women.
The upcoming speaker events scheduled are:
March 29: The annual SUNY Fredonia Gender Conference will be held in the Horizon Room at 6:30 p.m., with author and labor right activist, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz addressing the audience via Skype. Dunbar-Ortiz is an historian and professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is the author of "Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie" (Verso), "The Great Sioux Nation," and "Roots of Resistance," among other books.
March 31: Sex and relationship educators Marshall Miller and Dorian Sorlot will bring Women’s History month to a close with a playful approach to sex education and women’s empowerment at 7 p.m. in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room. The two work together to bring a male and female perspective to the table on different sexual topics, while still educating audiences about making health decision when it comes to the risks associated with sex. They have presented over 500 programs around the country at colleges and universities, businesses, churches, regional and national conferences, and adult education centers. This event is co-sponsored by S.T.E.P.S.
Events concluded in this series:
March 10: "Hold their Opening Ceremonies," starting at 6:30 p.m. in the Horizon Room of the Williams Center. Comedian Kristen Becker, a semifinalist on Last Comic Standing, will be performing. Having been named one of CURVE magazines "America's Funniest Lesbians,” Becker has made a name for herself in her hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. She started the Doin’ Time Comedy Showcase and a comedy tour called the Dykes of Hazard.
March 23: Talk by Judy Norsigian, executive director and a founder of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, a nonprofit, public interest women’s health education, and advocacy organization. She is a co-author of the book series,"Our Bodies, Ourselves." This series of books provides clear, truthful information about women’s health and sexuality from a feminist and consumer perspective and remain one of the few U.S. women’s groups that don’t accept funds from pharmaceutical companies. Ms. Norsigian will be speaking at 7 p.m., in McEwen 201.
March 21: "Scholar Activism and Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery," will be given by Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D., author, educator, researcher and activist has specialized in many areas of sexuality. She will be speaking at 7 p.m., in McEwen G26. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Tiefer has written widely about the medicalization of men's and women's sexuality. She has been interviewed by news media around the world and appeared on many news shows as the foremost critic of "disease-mongering" trends in the medical management of women's sexual problems. The website of her educational anti-medicalization campaign,newviewcampaign.org, is a major resource on this topic for journalists, colleagues, and the public.
Dr. Tiefer’s New View Campaign was formed in 2000 as a grassroots network to challenge the distorted messages about sexuality used in the pharmaceutical industry to profit off the medicalization of sex.
