Goucher Celebrates Women’s History Month 2009

Release date: March 08, 2009 |

Goucher College is celebrating Women’s History Month with the following series of events, performances, and lectures:

Women in Hip-Hop: An Open Mic Night
Sunday, March 8
8:30-10 p.m., Pearlstone Atrium
Enjoy an open mic night hosted by Baltimore musicians J. Pope and LOVE the poet. Goucher community members are invited to perform. Interested performers should contact Melissa Smith at melissa.smith@goucher.edu.

Open Mic After-Party
Sunday, March 8
10 p.m. to 1 a.m., Gopher Hole
After the open mic performances, come down to the Gopher Hole to dance and enjoy a smoothie. Musical entertainment will be provided.

Words of Women
Monday, March 9
12-2 p.m., Geen Community Center
Members of the Goucher community are encouraged to bring their lunch and share a reading by their favorite female writer.

Women's Empowerment Expo
Wednesday, March 11
11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Pearlstone Atrium
Women’s groups will sell crafts and present information about ways to get involved at Goucher and in the Greater Baltimore community. All proceeds will benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. For more information about how to get involved, contact Melissa Smith at melissa.smith@goucher.edu.

Phenomenal Women Reception
Thursday, March 12
6 p.m., Welsh Hall Piano Room
Come celebrate the phenomenal women of the Goucher community. These women are professors, staff members, and students who have impacted the lives of others at Goucher. Nominations require a photograph and a one-page essay explaining why the nominee is a phenomenal woman. Submissions must be sent to Lamar Hylton at lamar.hylton@goucher.edu by Thursday, March 5.

Ad Buster’s Campaign
Thursday, March 12
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pearlstone Atrium
Are you tired of seeing magazine and television advertisements that objectify women? Join other Goucher community members to modify these advertisements to make your own statement. Help  change cultural expectations and increase awareness about the advertisement industry’s attack on women.

Working Women’s Wednesday
Wednesday, March 18
4-6 p.m., Gopher Hole
All female faculty and staff members are invited to a happy hour featuring music. 

“Women, Pop Music, and Pornography”
Wednesday, March 25
1-3 p.m., Heubeck Multipurpose Room
Singer, songwriter, and women’s issues speaker Meredith LeVande presents this multimedia lecture on why images of women in popular music are hyper-sexualized. She will examine how the connection between media ownership deregulation and the mega-media companies that profit from adult entertainment have pushed pornographic imagery into the mainstream.

Musical Performance by Nicole Reynolds
Wednesday, March 25
9-10:30 p.m., Gopher Hole
Singer/songwriter Nicole Reynolds ’05 will perform original works featuring smart lyrics that subtly tackle big social problems. Free for Goucher community members with ID; $5 for the general public.

The Vagina Monologues
Friday, March 27, through Sunday, March 29
9-11:30 p.m., Haebler Memorial Chapel
The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased the night of the program. All proceeds benefit the V-Day Foundation, a nonprofit founded to use performances of the play to raise money to benefit female victims of violence and sexual abuse.

Women Writing About Women
Monday, March 30, and Tuesday, March 31
Writers’ roundtable: March 30 at 7 p.m., Merrick Lecture Hall
Keynote presentation: March 31 at 8 p.m., Merrick Lecture Hall
In commemoration of the program’s 25th anniversary, Women Writing About Women will present roundtable readings by three previous writers-in-residence – Dorothy Allison, Michelle Cliff, and Thrity Umrigar. The celebration will culminate March 31 with a keynote address by this year’s writer-in-residence, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry winner Natasha Tretheway of Baltimore.

Growing Up Asian and Bisexual in the South
Wednesday, April 1
9 p.m., Gopher Hole
Magdalen Hsu-Li, an Asian-American singer/songwriter and community activist, will give a live musical performance and lecture about her life as a bisexual Asian woman who grew up in the southeastern United States. 

This series of events is sponsored by the offices of Community Living and Multicultural Affairs, the Vice President and Dean of Students, Public Safety, and Student Engagement; the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance; Can’t Stop/Won’t Stop; Amnesty International; the Administrative Employees Association; the Women’s Studies Program; and the Kratz Center for Creative Writing.