RVAM: Self-Guided Learning Week 1 (Oct 6)
Relationship Violence Awareness Month (RVAM) brings people together to create and generate discussion and skill-building on how to prevent relationship violence in our schools, workplaces, and communities, Since most of our campus remains learning and working remotely, we won’t be able to physically come together this October to do this critical work in person… but it doesn’t mean that learning is cancelled!
The Women’s Center is creating weekly postings to help guide your self-learning that we’ll share with you each week in October. Below is a short list of relevant webinars or events, podcasts or blogs, and on and off-campus resources dedicated to cultivating awareness about relationship violence, posting your skills and knowledge around the intersecting issues, and increasing access to important resources.
While some of the learning content we’re sharing is all-encompassing, we’re also narrowing down on few key themes this year to include: The Covid-Crossings of Relationship Violence, Relationship Violence’s Matrix of Oppression, and Un/Healthy Relationships for Young Adults. Through self-guided learning, you can dig deeper by listening to a podcast, reading a blog, attending a webinar and more.
We’ll also be sharing this content on social media so let us know what you’re learning or what questions you have in the comments!
The Power and Control Wheel
- Here is an article called “Dealing with Teen Dating Violence” that explains who is affected by teen dating violence, how to offer help, and why survivors sometimes do not ask for help.
- We Believe You is a student-led activist, advocacy, and support organization for survivors and allies of sexual and interpersonal violence. They seek to bring about campus-wide awareness of social issues surrounding power-based violence and intersecting forms of oppression. Check out this link for more information about the survivors only discussion group, and this link for information about the general body meetings, which are open to everyone!
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October is Relationship Violence Awareness Month
We see you. We believe you. You matter.
Relationship Violence Awareness Month (RVAM) brings people together to create and generate discussion and skill-building on how to prevent relationship violence in our schools, workplaces, and communities. While providing support and care to survivors of relationship violence is an everyday action, this awareness month also carves out intentional moments to honor and believe survivors’ stories and experiences. As we continue this work throughout the pandemic, it is also critical for us to consider how the intersections of covid-19 and social isolation have exacerbated relationship violence over the past several months.
Since most of campus remains learning and working remotely, we won’t be able to physically come together this October to do this critical work in person. The Women’s Center and all of our campus partners including the Office of Equity and Inclusion, University Health Services, the Counseling Center,
Green Dot, We Believe You, and Retriever Courage, and more will nonetheless continue to promote awareness and prevention this month.
We are inviting our UMBC community to join our efforts.
Get Involved:
Learn - Throughout the month of October, the Women’s Center will be focusing on various topics and issues related to relationship violence awareness and prevention. Key themes we will be exploring include: The Covid-Crossings of Relationship Violence, Relationship Violence’s Matrix of Oppression, and Un/Healthy Relationships for Young Adults.
We’ll be sharing weekly postings to help guide your self-learning that will include relevant webinars or events, podcasts or blogs, and on and off-campus resources. Follow us on social media (
Facebook,
Twitter, and
Instagram) to engage in this content for learning and skill-building. Leave us comments or ask questions.
Learning Reminder!
All undergraduate and graduate students are required to complete mandatory annual student training that addresses UMBC's policies around sexual and gender based violence from the Office of Equity and Inclusion by November 1st!
Witness - Last April, the Women’s Center in partnership with survivors created a zine in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The stories, the poems, and images are timeless and are relevant today as they were in April. Please help us bear witness to the experiences of survivors by reading
Survivors to the Front: A Call to Witness. We will also reshare images from our virtual Clothesline Project and post images from past
Clothesline Project displays hosted on campus.
Come Together - The
We Believe You discussion group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 4pm. Survivors of power-based violence are welcomed to join this
virtual community hosted by the Women’s Center with support from the We Believe You student org. Email
womenscenter@umbc.edu for more details on how you can join this virtual discussion. The
We Believe You student org also hosts General Body Meetings. Follow their
myUMBC page or email them at
webelieveyou.umbc@gmail.com for more information. Aspiring allies and survivors are also invited to join the work of the
Inclusion Council by expressing their interest to be a part of the sexual misconduct workgroup.
Stay tuned to
our myUMBC page for other events or webinars we may promote throughout the month hosted by our campus and/or off-campus partners.
Additionally, throughout this time of distance learning, campus staff are still here and available for support.
Do not hesitate to reach out for questions, concerns, or care.
On-Campus Resources Available for Virtual Support:
To report a complaint of sexual misconduct or discrimination, please submit this online form.
Off-Campus Resources:
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 24/7, confidential and free: 1-800-799-7233 and through chat.
The National Sexual Assault Hotline is 24/7, confidential and free: 800-656-HOPE (4673) and through chat.
Visit
Retriever Courage for a more extensive list of off-campus resources and support
And, remember, no matter where you are, dear survivors, we see you. We believe you. You matter. Always.
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The Black Butterfly: the harmful politics of race and space
An event hosted by Geography & Environmental Systems
The GES Department cordially invites you to join their Virtual
Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 7th at noon. WebEx code can be found at https://ges.umbc.edu/ges-seminar-series/
Rise of the Black Butterfly
Dr. Lawrence T. Brown
Visiting Associate Professor, Population Health Institute
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists,
incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and
marched on city streets. The Black Butterfly refers to the fact that Baltimore's majorityBlack population spreads out on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down
the center of the city like a butterfly's wings. In his research and publications, Lawrence T.
Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies,
practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings and crises in hyper-segregated
cities around the country.
Putting Baltimore under a microscope, Brown looks closely at the causes of segregation,
many of which exist in current legislation and regulatory policy despite the common belief
that overtly racist policies are a thing of the past. Brown persuasively argues that, since
urban apartheid was intentionally erected, it can be intentionally dismantled. The Black
Butterfly demonstrates that America cannot reflect that Black lives matter until we see how
Black neighborhoods matter.
Lawrence T. Brown is the proud grandson of Mississippi
and Arkansas Delta sharecroppers and preachers.
From 2010 to 2019, Dr. Brown worked at Morgan State
University in the School of Community Health and Policy
where his research examined the impact of historical
trauma on community health. In June 2018 he was
honored by OSI Baltimore with the Bold Thinker award
for sparking critical discourse regarding Baltimore’s
racial segregation. In September 2018, he was named
#61 in The Root 100 – an annual list of the most influential African Americans ages 25 to
45. His first book, The Black Butterfly: The Politics of Race and Space in America, will be
published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in January 2021.