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 [...]
The New York Times reports on a study about energy drinks, such as Red Bull and Spike Shooter, which appear to have a connection to risk-taking behavior. While the article speaks primiarly about high school students, there is a mention of college students as well:
Dr. O’Brien surveyed energy drink and alcohol use among college students at [...]
Posted in sexual violence on Apr. 7, 2008 by Lisa Currie
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 [...]
