Programs and Events
Calendar
- Healing Your Inner Child: Ceremonial Sharing Circle - 10 am-1 pm @ SDSU Alumni Center Ballroom (please note the event will no longer be in the Student Union): This event is part of the Breaking Silences: Uprooting Child Sexual Abuse series. The intention of this series is to empower survivors of child sexual abuse through dialogue, community, and holistic practices. Join us for a Sharing Circle and Healing Ceremony lead by Curandera Grace Alvarez Sesma. Allies welcome! This event is limited, so register via: bit.ly/UprootingCSA1. This event is sponsored by the Latinx Resource Center, Women's Reource Center, and Native Resource Center, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Man Up?: Masculinity and Popular Culture - 1 pm-2:30 pm @ Student Union Theatre: Join Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, director of We End Violence, to deconstruct the concept of masculinity, challenge unhealthy social norms, and engage in a cultural analysis of how masculinity is represented. This event is sponsored by Let's Talk, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- "Last Warning Shot" Film Screening and Interactive Discussion - 12 pm-1:30 pm @ Student Union Theatre: Join Free to Thrive for a screening of "Last Warning Shot" that focuses on online recruitment of sex trafficking victims. The film will be followed by an interactive panel discussion about the film, human trafficking in our community, and what you can do to help. This event is sponsored by Free to Thrive, Well-being & Health Promotion, and the Women's Resource Center, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Building Capacity for Healing, Safety, and Energetic Sovereignty in Survivors - 3 pm-5 pm @ Center for Intercultural Relations Multipurpose Room: Denise Chang (denisedimensional.com) is a somatic trauma resolution practitioner and erotic movement arts facilitator who supports survivors and femmes of color to heal from within, build nervous system capacity and resolve trauma. They will host a survivor-centered space to gently return to the body, build a relationship to what safety feels like in the body and explore embodied sovereignty and consent. This event is sponsored by the Women's Resource Center, and is NOT eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Tabling Event: Resources on Campus - 10 am-2 pm @ Student Union Courtyard: Learn about health resources and services that are available on campus, including those related to sexual assault. This event is sponsored by Let's Talk, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- "One Night Out" Performance by interACT - 2 pm-3:15 pm @ Student Union Theatre: Join interACT, an internationally recognized performance troupe, for a proactive and thought-provoking performance focused on sexual violence prevention. This event is sponsored by Let's Talk, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Rise: A confidential support space for survivors of sexual and relationship violence - 12:30 pm-1:45 pm @ Zoom (HIPAA-compliant): Rise is a confidential support space for survivors of sexual violence and relationship violence. It is open to enrolled SDSU students of all genders. Rise welcomes survivors wherever their healing may be. To join please email [email protected]. This event is sponsored by Counseling & Psychological Services and the Women's Resource Center, and is NOT eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Release and Regain - 4 pm-5 pm @ North Education 073: An interactive event for survivors to write anything they need to release around sexual violence, whether that’s an experience, guilt, or regret, and take affirmations and resources for self-love, forgiveness, respect, and crisis line numbers. Through this event, survivors can take a step toward letting go of their harmful experiences and heal. This event is sponsored by V-Day, and is NOT eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Take Back the Night - 5 pm-7 pm @ Student Union Goldberg Courtyard: F.O.A. will organize a march around campus with anti-sexual violence chants for participants. Afterward, attendees are free to participate in a brave space open mic that allows them to share their experiences. This event is sponsored by the Andrea O’Donnell Feminist Outreach Association, the Women's Resource Center, and the Department of Women's Studies, and is NOT eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault: An Empowering Model - 1 pm-2:30 pm @ tinyurl.com/SupportingSurvivorsSA: A workshop to provide skills and resources to learn how to support survivors of sexual assault. Attendees will learn the models used by the Crisis Text Line and the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) for Center for Community Solutions, and create a self-care toolkit to utilize (especially when the person being confided in is a survivor themselves). This event is sponsored by the Women's Resource Center, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- The Transformative Power of Storytelling to Dig Up the Roots of Childhood Sexual Abuse with Aishah Shahidah Simmons - 3 pm-6 pm @ SDSU Alumni Center Library (please note the event will no longer be in the Gateway Center): This event is part of the Breaking Silences: Uprooting Child Sexual Abuse series. The intention of this series is to empower survivors of child sexual abuse through dialogue, community, and holistic practices. Join us to learn from Aishah Shahidah Simmons about her anthology “Love WITH Accountability." Register to enter an opportunity drawing to win a copy of her book via: bit.ly/UprootingCSA2. This event is sponsored by the Latinx Resource Center, Women's Resource Center, Pride Center, and Black Resource Center, and is eligible for accredidation and/or course credit.
- Disrupting in Action: Challenging Gendered Microaggressions and Rape Culture Language - The Center for Inclusive Excellence (@sdsucie) invites you to participate in this Instagram series to reimagine a world where there is no more violent language or sexual violence in our society. Participate by visiting bit.ly/cieseries by April 7, 2022 at 11:59 pm.
A gathering space for Black feminine centered individuals, the Black Women’s Healing Circle is a series in collaboration between the WRC and the Black Resource Center.
Formerly known as Les(bi)Honest, the Queer Femme Community Circle is a safe space to connect with other femmes and discuss the lived experiences of queerness and being femme-presenting. We are excited that this group will now be a collaboration between the WRC and the Pride Center.
A confidential support group for survivors of sexual assault and relationship violence, Rise is a series in collaboration between the WRC and Counseling & Psychological Services. Rise meets on Thursdays from 12:30pm to 1:45 pm. You can see more details by clicking here.
Nationally, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Each year, SDSU's Sexual Violence Task Force hosts "Take Back the Week" (TBTW) in order to raise awareness about sexual assault and provide spaces to center survivors’ healing and resilience. Campus partners such as the WRC, Wellbeing and Health Promotion, Student Life & Leadership, Counseling & Psychological Services, and multiple student organizations coordinate a rich week of content.
Women's History Month is celebrated every March in recognition of women's rights and the ongoing efforts for intersectional gender justice. During Women's History Month, students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend a wide variety of programming that highlights feminist activism, centers folks who face multiple, intersecting forms of oppression, and offers spaces to celebrate our resilience.
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