If you are interested in applying to be Wesleyan’s first Sexual Assault Response Team Intern, please complete the application found here by 5pm on Friday, April 24. That’s today!

Students are needed to perform in “Unspeakable Acts” or “In the Company of Others” during New Student Orientation 2009. ”In the Company of Others” is a time when four to five students share their experiences and thus spark the conversation of what it means to live in a diverse community. “Unspeakable Acts” is a series of [...]

The 5th Annual Sexual Health Expo is this Friday! 
Friday, March 27, 2009
12:00 to 5:00pm
Exley Science Center Lobby
Convened each year by WesWELL, the goal of the Sexual Health Expo to promote sexual health and responsibility and increase student knowledge of campus health resources. A variety of issues are addressed, including promoting healthy relationships, disease and pregnancy [...]

Miss your chance to participate in the Wesleyan performance
of “The Vagina Monologues”? You have another opportunity! 
VDay: Middletown presents a benefit performance of 
“The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler
We need YOU to join our cast!
AUDITIONS:
Thursday, March 5th, 6:30pm -8:30pm
Saturday, March 7th, 10am-12noon
Green Street Arts Center
51 Green Street
Middletown, CT
No experience or prepared material necessary
*All female-identified cast*
*Proceeds benefit Women and Families Center Sexual Assault [...]

From FemNet…
Do you remember your freshman orientation? How about the performance of “Unspeakable Acts”? Yeah, didn’t think so.
Well FemNet, in conjunction with WesWELL, is working to fix that by revising and/or completely overhauling the script. But to do that we need your help. In case you completely don’t remember, Unspeakable Acts is a staged series of monologues/dialogs about sexual [...]

Unfortunately, sexual violence is an issue to which Wesleyan is not immune. To raise awareness of this critical issue in our community, the annual Take Back the Night march & rally is next week:
Thursday, March 16
7:00pm 
Steps of Olin Library
The TBTN Planning Committee, headed by Liz Weisman ‘09 and Carolyn Ariori ‘09 have been hard at work planning additional events; FemNet and [...]

Educational efforts on sexual violence prevention typically place a strong focus on communication, especially on the giving and receiving of consent to particiate in sexual activity. As thorny as it can be to define what consent looks and sounds like, what if your attempts to communicate your intention are completely misinterpreted?
Dr. Louanne Weston Cole, in her Sex [...]

From the Athens Messenger… 
One in four college women will be sexually assaulted during their college years, experts say, but what many college students consider to be sexual assault is actually only a small part of what the law defines as sex offenses.“Sexual assault occurs along a continuum of intrusion and violation ranging from unwanted sexual [...]

Diversity Film Series: Search for Angela Shelton (2004)

Filmmaker Angela Shelton journeys across the United States meeting other Angela Sheltons in an effort to survey women in America. She discovers that 24 out of 40 Angela Sheltons have been abused just like herself. Then the filmmaker meets an Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and [...]