UNCA Cultural Events Series and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program, offering core courses in WGSS as well as related electives from a variety of departments across campus. The program is designed to offer perspectives on the experiences of women, the effects of the construction of gender and of sexuality in our society.
The Ancient Metaphor that Created Modern Sexism
By Robert S. McElvaine in the Washington Post
Where does sexism come from? Why do evangelicals ignore the president’s serial mistreatment of women? Why does the U.S. Constitution still not guarantee equality for women? Why do women earn less than men? Why didn’t most conservatives care whether the accusations of sexual assault brought against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh were true?
THINGS WOMEN COULDN’T DO IN 1971
By Lisa Bialac-Jehle
Get credit cards in their own names.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 gave women that right. The law forced credit card companies to issue cards to women without a husband’s signature.
SARRANDA’S LEGACY by Celia Miles
This third installment of Sarranda’s saga leads her to the poignancy and heartbreak of an unexpected new marriage. In the mountains of Jackson County, NC, Sarranda continues to run her mill, renew and strengthen old and new acquaintances—especially her circle of strong, determined women with whom she continues her legacy of doggedly shepherding them to self-realization —and her discovery of the redemptive, healing power resulting from her one extraordinary and selfless gift of love.
The paperback is available from Celia for $13.95 including postage at celiahoopermiles@gmail.com or Sarranda’s Legacy Kindle Edition
Ex-UN chief Ban Ki-moon says US healthcare system is ‘morally wrong’
By Jessica Glenza in the Guardian
The former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as politically and morally wrong, and urged American leaders to enact publicly financed healthcare as a “human right”.
TELL A WOMAN
If you watched “Dominion” at UU last Friday 9/14, and If you missed it…
Offered by Charlie Wussow
“Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom.”
For those of you who came to Friday’s Environmental & Social Justice film “Dominion”, thank you! I know it was difficult to watch, but I was impressed by how many of you came to the screening even though you knew it would be an uncomfortable experience at the very least.
Organic Growers School is Moving to Smith Mill Works October 1, 2018
When The Powerful Use Their Position To Bully Others, We All Lose – also talking about New Models of Manhood
From Meryl Streep to Tracee Ellis Ross, women took center stage at Sunday’s Golden Globes and demanded we celebrate them –
not for what they’re wearing, but for who they are and what they do. On the red carpet, Evan Rachel Wood explained she wore a tuxedo so that, “young women and girls know that [dresses] aren’t a requirement and that you don’t have to wear one if you don’t want to. Just be yourself, because your worth is much more than that.” Continue reading
Addiction Resource, Substance Use, Domestic Violence & Consumer Safety Information
Defective Medical Devices and Dangerous Medications
Sahle-Work Zewde becomes Ethiopia’s first female president
from BBC News
Ethiopian members of parliament have elected Sahle-Work Zewde as the country’s first female president. Ms Sahle-Work is an experienced diplomat who has now become Africa’s only female head of state. Her election to the ceremonial position comes a week after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed a cabinet with half the posts taken up by women.
Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
It’s 3:23 in the morning
and I’m awake
because my great great grandchildren
won’t let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?
—Drew Dellinger
DEMOCRATS KEEP COOL, KEEP CALM
by Froma Harrop in the News Chamber of California
Americans are hurting as their country descends into dysfunction, polarization and widespread anger. Democrats are feeling an extra dose of despair with the elevation of the intemperate and partisan Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
DON’T DESPAIR ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT by Howard Zinn
in The Progressive, a voice for Peace, Social Justice and the Common Good
“It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”
LIKE HEADLINES: New & Selected Poems by Nancy Dillingham
This collection begins with clear-eyed reportage on the heartbreak and devastation in the lives of women, historical and contemporary. The universal implications of their fate serve as “frame” for the rest of the book as the poet, in strikingly spare language, takes impassioned aim at the complexities of love, marriage, and society. “She has chosen to follow her own light and report what her vision discovers…with a dark mordancy that is tonic and enviable.” Fred Chappell “Nancy Dillingham writes…with a beautiful balance of concision and eloquence.” Ron Rash “History, the land, and family beckon with a ‘finely formed hand.’ ” Katherine Soniat Click here for more information
The History News Network – because the past is the present and the future too
John C. Waugh, the author of One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War
Casual sexism creates victims. We should acknowledge that and police it.
By Libby Brooks in the Guardian
What can a man say to a woman on the street these days without fear of prosecution? Ever since campaigners and police forces started talking about treating the public harassment of women as a hate crime, there has been an equal and opposite push to defend some bloke’s right to … what exactly? Shout a catalogue of sexually explicit demands at a stranger while following her down a street at midnight? Exchange friendly observations about the state of the weather in a shop queue in daylight?
As with #MeToo, this is far less complicated than some would like us to imagine.
GLOBAL ECO WATCH – Eye on the Planet
‘Major shift’: Nations face bottom-up pressure to act on climate change
On Friday, former US vice president Al Gore declared the Global Climate Action Summit a “success”. Realistically, we won’t know if it has achieved its purpose until this time next year, when countries have been invited to New York to offer new, upgraded promises to cut carbon.
THE FREE CLINICS – Creating a Healthier Community – Henderson and Polk Counties
The Free Clinics invites our community to join our HealthWays team and help make Henderson and Polk Counties healthier places to live, work and play. HealthWays is a new pilot site of Microclinics International that improves community health by building on the premise that healthy living is contagious. HealthWays will create a local model of “viral health” building upon existing social networks of friends, families, neighbors, and colleagues and nurturing dynamic peer-to-peer learning and support.
Illinois becomes 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Will North Carolina be the 38th?
Sent in to SheVille.org by Roberta Madden ERA-NC Alliance Immediate Release May 30, 2018
P.O. Box 11712 Durham, NC 27703 www.era-nc.org (984) 244-0611 For more information contact: Audrey Muck, fanninmm@gmail.com, 336-480-1947