NINE Women’s History Month Events this Week!

*NINE Women’s History Month Events this Week!

*Opening: Forgotten Feminisms: History & Response to Pop Culture, 3/7

*Screening of South African Film Yesterday, 3/8

*Journal Making: Sewn on Tapes, 3/8

*11th Annual Women and Work Conference, 3/9

*The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VIII Conference, 3/10 & 3/11

*Texting, Tattling, Leadership and Lies – A Workshop with Dr. Candace Rosovsky, 3/10

*LUNAFEST, a Festival of Short Films in Pocatello & Idaho Falls, 3/10 & 3/15

*Women’s History Month Keynote: Andi Zeisler, co-founder of Bitch Media, 3/11

*Zonta Women of Achievement Luncheon, 3/12

*FSA Seeks Crisis Line Volunteers

*LGBTSA Hosts Dance

*VH1 Do Something Awards!

*March is National Kidney Month

*Women in America – A New Government Report

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*NINE Women’s History Month Events this Week

*Opening: Forgotten Feminisms: History & Response to Pop Culture

Monday, March 7

7pm

Transition Gallery, ISU Pond Student Union Building

FREE and open to the public

Exhibit on display through March 30; Monday – Friday, 10am – 8pm.

For more information, please call 282-3451.

*Screening of South African Film Yesterday for National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Followed by a Panel Discussion

Tuesday, March 8

7pm

Salmon River Suite, ISU Pond Student Union Building

FREE and open to the public

Written and directed by South African filmmaker Daryl James Roodt, Yesterday has received recognition worldwide. Yesterday is a moving and heartfelt portrait of a young, devoted mother named Yesterday, who learns that she is HIV positive and remains determined to stay alive until her young daughter Beauty is old enough to go off to school. Her husband is also stricken with AIDS, and Yesterday cares for him even as they are ostracized by fearful neighbors in their tiny Zulu village.

Following the screening will be an open panel discussion led by local HIV/AIDS educators and experts Dr. Rick Pongratz, ISU Counseling and Testing, Dr. Dave Hachey, ISU Kasiska College of Health Professions and Elizabeth Kusko, Project WISE Coordinator. The panelists will discuss protection strategies, personal risk factors, and what to expect when receiving various forms of tests. Free condoms, lubricant and educational handouts will also be available.

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of the increasing impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls. Families, health organizations, businesses, communities and individuals come together to offer support, encourage discussion and educate women and girls about practicing safer sex methods and the importance of discussing both HIV/AIDS and the decision to get tested. Every 35 minutes, a woman tests positive for HIV in the United States. More and more women have become infected with HIV since it was first reported in the early 1980s. Today, about 25% of Americans who are living with the disease are women. In Idaho, only 35.2% of women have ever been tested for HIV/AIDS, which ranks the state 8th lowest in the nation. Additional information on HIV/AIDS and its impact on women and girls is available at: http://www.womenshealth.gov/hiv/.

Funding for this activity was made possible in part by the HHS, Office on Women's Health. The views expressed in written materials or publications and by speakers and moderators at HHS-sponsored conferences, do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

For more information about this event, contact the Anderson Center at 282-2805.

*Journal Making: Sewn on Tapes

Tuesday, March 8

7pm

ISU Craft Shop, Pond Student Union Building

ISU Students, FREE; non-students, $10

Pre-registration is required; please call the ISU Craft Shop to save your space.

Sponsored by ISU Craft Shop (282-3281)

*11th Annual Women and Work Conference

Wednesday, March 9

8am - 2pm

Pond Student Union Building

Students $10; non-students $20

Contact the Center for New Directions (282-2454) for additional information or to make a reservation.

*The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VIII Conference

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Friday, March 11, 9:30am – 5:00pm
Rendezvous Suite, Rendezvous Building

Conference sessions are free and open to the public.
Registration is required, but will be available on-site.

The full conference schedule is accessible at the Anderson Center website, www.isu.edu/andersoncenter.

All conference papers will in some way explore the various ways in which gender is crafted, celebrated, endured, deciphered, expressed or, in short, the art of how it is lived on a daily basis. Sessions will cover a wide range of topics including the arts, literature, gender in media, the performance of gender and more.

For more information about The Art of Gender in Everyday Life VIII, please contact the Anderson Center at 282-2805.

*Texting, Tattling, Leadership and Lies – A Workshop with Dr. Candace Rosovsky

Thursday, March 10

1:00pm – 2:45pm

Rendezvous Suite, Rendezvous Building

FREE and open to the public

This workshop is sponsored by ISUPW, WeLEAD and the Anderson Center.

Myths and fairy tales have long woven a tapestry of gender-specific stories where girls and women manipulate their power base through gossip and tattling while boys and men engage in aggressive combat on their way to the top. And while research and reality present a more complex understanding of social interactions – humans gossip, tattle, and shape their truths, and physical conflict is no longer the prerogative of men, still, we continue to be media-captivated by representations of our old gender myths, “Gossip Girls”, highly comedic or overly dramatic portrayals of gay men, and heterosexual male heroes with power, prowess and prestige. With more women than men in higher education, completing degrees, moving forward in management and the professions, why would girls and women still engage in relational aggression, find power through disempowering other women, and sabotage themselves by engaging in strategies that are ultimately disempowering? In what ways are men participants (even as observers)? And, how can any of us support interventions that create safer, more honest and constructive social and professional environments?

This workshop will explore the ways in which we engage in conflict, navigate power, and manipulate our social or professional status, particularly in same-sex or identity-based groups. Through interactive and creative small group projects, participants will look at the ways in which relational aggression can sabotage even the most well-intentioned and enjoyable event and, given a bit of wit and luck, provide us with moments of mediation, leadership and, perhaps, new insights for success.

Dr. Candace Rosovsky has been involved in issues of women and gender studies since the 1970s, when a small group of community college students asked her help in starting the first women’s organization on their campus. Since then, she has taught women’s studies at the University of Washington, University of Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University and directed two university Women’s Centers: Middle Tennessee State University’s June Anderson Women’s Center and the Women’s Center at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo (UHH). While at UHH, Dr. Rosovsky also taught that campus’s first LGBT Studies class. Dr. Rosovsky earned her B.A. in English, an M.A.T. from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in Education, with an emphasis on women in higher education. She also completed the HERS/Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration. Balancing her belief that we are best served by an equal appreciation for the arts and a commitment to social justice and systemic change, she is both a published poet and a tireless advocate for women and under-represented groups, developing programs and workshops on race and gender, Safe Zone, the advancement of women in higher education, women working with women, and women’s leadership. Dr. Rosovsky has served on state and national advisory boards and commissions and, from 2008-2010, served as co-chair of the National Women’s Studies Association Women’s Centers Committee and on the NWSA Governing Council. Honored by local and national organizations for her work, Dr. Rosovsky continues to serve as a committee advocate for the homeless and continues as a mentor for men and women aspiring to attend college and graduate school.

For additional information, please contact the Anderson Center at 282-2805.

*LUNAFEST, a Festival of Short Films in Pocatello & Idaho Falls

The Anderson Center is pleased to announce screenings of LUNAFEST:
Thursday, March 10: Pocatello Screening
7:00 pm, Rendezvous Suite, Rendezvous Building
Free and open to all. Donations cheerfully accepted.
For additional information on the Pocatello screening, please call 282-2805.

Tuesday, March 15: Idaho Falls Screening
12, Noon, Multipurpose Room, Bennion Student Union
Free and open to all. Donations cheerfully accepted.
For additional information on the Idaho Falls screening, please call 282-7866.

Join us for a screening of fun and thought-provoking short films, by, for, and about women, from the U.S. and around the world!

The Translator – A foreign film translator finds her story on a subway line.
Getting a Grip - Meet Fannie Barnes who became the first woman cable car operator in January 1998 – at age 52.
Touch - Two women make an unusual connection while waiting for a train.
Tightly Knit - A new generation of yarn bombers and social knitters discover that the ties that bind are sometimes made of wool.
Top Spin - With hard work and family sacrifice, a young table tennis champion works towards becoming one of the top players in the world.
Thembi’s Diary - Nineteen-year-old Thembi records an audio diary of her struggle to live with AIDS.
Mother of Many - The most dangerous journey sometimes needs a helping hand -- a midwife. Irene - Ninety-two-year-old Irene suffers from Alzheimer’s, but struggles to keep her independence.
Miracle Lady - A tale of two old women who spend their days waiting.
Love on the Line - Follow the dots and dashes when star-crossed lovers curbed their raging hormones via the quickest form of communication available: the telegraph.

LUNAFEST was established in 2000 by LUNA, the makers of the Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, to simultaneously promote women filmmakers, raise awareness for women’s issues, and support worthy women’s nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Proceeds will benefit The Breast Cancer Fund. Additional information about LUNAFEST is available at www.lunafest.org.

For additional information, please contact the Anderson Center at 282-2805.

*Women’s History Month Keynote: Andi Zeisler, co-founder of Bitch Media

Friday, March 11
7 pm

Rendezvous Suite, Rendezvous Building
FREE and open to the public

Ms. Zeisler’s Keynote will address the intersections of popular culture, feminism, and activism, particularly in the context of new technology.

Andi Zeisler is the co-founder and editorial/creative director of Bitch Media, the nonprofit best known for publishing the quarterly magazine Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. The magazine began in 1996 as an all-volunteer ‘zine with a circulation of 300 and is now an internationally distributed quarterly magazine with a circulation of 50,000. Bitch Media itself is a reader-supported multimedia organization devoted to education and media literacy.

A longtime freelance writer, editor, and illustrator, Andi’s work has appeared in numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Ms., Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, Utne, BUST, the Women’s Review of Books, Skirt!, The Bark, and Hues. She is a former pop-music columnist for the SF Weekly and the East Bay Express, and has contributed to the anthologies Young Wives’ Tales and Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women’s Friendships (both from Seal Press). She is the coeditor of BitchFest: 10 Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and the author of Feminism and Pop Culture (Seal Press). She now lives in Portland, Oregon with her family and speaks frequently on the subject of feminism and the media at various colleges and universities.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Faculty Senate Cultural Affairs Council.

For additional information on other upcoming Women’s History Month events, please consult the calendar found on the Anderson Center website: www.isu.edu/andersoncenter.

*Zonta Women of Achievement Luncheon

March 12

12pm

Red Lion Hotel

$15 General Admission, RSVP required

Contact Carolyn Purnell (capur007@msn.com) for additional information or to make a reservation.

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*FSA Seeks Crisis Line Volunteers

Do you like to help people and share resources? Are you a good listener?

Family Services Alliance of Southeast Idaho is offering a free training to volunteer candidates that live in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, that offer these skills, for answering their domestic violence crisis line, and responding on location with local police departments, as needed, to provide information to victims.

The classroom part of the training will be 20 hours, and will cover a variety of topics including stalking, domestic violence, sexual assault, safety of victims, dating violence, victims’ compensation, suicide, and services available to victims.

Classroom instruction will be Wednesdays, March 9, 16, 23, and 30, from 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm on those dates. Due to ISU’s Spring Break, a special make-up date for the March 23 class will be held on April 6.

After completion of the entire 30 hour course, which includes shadowing a staff member, and completing a police ride along, volunteer advocates will receive a certificate of completion.

Volunteer Advocates are asked to cover 1-2 nights per month on call, which is done from the convenience of your home, via a cell phone that is provided. In addition, a staff member is always on call to assist the volunteer with questions or concerns they may have during their time on call.

Persons wishing to apply for this important volunteer community resource must fill out an application, which will include a back-ground check, prior to March 8, 2011. All applicants must be pre-registered.

For more information, call Family Services Alliance at 232-0742, or, to obtain an application, stop by the office located at 355 S. Arthur Ave, Pocatello.

FSA’s mission is to promote safe and healthy families, work to end physical and mental abuse and provide victim support.

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*LGBTSA Mardi Masquerade Dance, 3/11

Join LGBTSA for a night of majestic and mystical entertainment with a Mardi Masquerade dance! In support of Women’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, this themed soiree is a tribute to women living with the disease and an effort to increase awareness and understanding. Live DJ, refreshments, and plenty of beads to go around!!

Costumes and Mardi Gras-themed attire encouraged (but not necessary).

Win a prize for Best Mask and Best Costume!

The Little Wood River Room

ISU Student Pond Building (SUB)

Friday, March 11 • 7:00-10:00 P.M.

$5 non-club member | $3.00 club member

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*VH1 Do Something Awards!

Could you use $100,000 to change the world? The Do Something Awards celebrate young people 25 and under who are tackling a problem and changing the world. Five nominees will be rewarded with a $10,000 community grant, participation in a VH1 TV show, media coverage and continued support from www.DoSomething.org. The grand prize winner will receive $100,000 during the broadcast! The application deadline has been extended to March 15th, 2011. Apply today at www.DoSomething.org/awards.

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*March is National Kidney Month

More than 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease and most don’t know it. Since kidney disease is often silent, without any symptoms, it can sneak up on people, especially those who are not aware of the major risk factors of high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history.

March 10 is World Kidney Day - an ideal time to learn more and take action! To find out more, go to: www.kidney.org/news/wkd/.

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*This Week in Women’s History

This just in: A new government report, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being has just been released. Check it out at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/Women_in_America.pdf.