A reflection from Women’s Center Director, Jess Myers Last week, the Women’s Center staff completed spring training. As with all of our training days, we took the opportunity to explore our...
January 27, 2015
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A Post from Women’s Center staff member, Dan. It’s a new semester and I gotta say– I’m torn. Sure, it’s nice to be forced to exit my cave, shower, and see everyone again, but that requires...
January 26, 2015
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UMBC Women Who Rock is a new blog series I’m working on throughout the 2014-15 academic year. In my role as Women’s Center director, I have some of the best opportunities to become acquainted with...
January 12, 2015
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Critical Social Justice week is fast approaching (this February from the 16th to the 20th) and the theme this year is “Creating Brave Spaces”. To unpack and explore this idea, we had the Critical...
January 6, 2015
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Critical Social Justice organizers Amelia Meman, Lisa Gray, and Megan Tagle Adams share a few of their thoughts about self-care in/as social justice work. AMELIA: Coming up on CSJ 2015, I’m...
December 15, 2014
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By Lisa Gray, Assistant Director of Student Life, Cultural and Spiritual Diversity. Earlier this year, Joakina Stone, then a Res Life colleague and collateral work staff with Student Life’s...
December 11, 2014
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A Post from Women's Center Staff, Ty Philip
When discussing the concept and implementation of brave spaces, a lot of the conversation revolves around the idea that these spaces are inherently physical. We speak of transforming places into...
December 9, 2014
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By Jasmine Malhotra, Graduate Coordinator for Cultural Programs with Student Life’s The Mosaic: Center for Culture & Diversity UMBC’s Critical Social Justice (CSJ) Week 2015 will be February...
December 1, 2014
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There have been so many blog posts written within the past three months since Michael Brown’s murder and especially within the past 48 hours documenting the anger, the sadness, the rage in the...
November 26, 2014
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Ask any of my friends who know that I’m an avid fan of NBC’s Parks and Recreation and they will tell you that I live by the motto “Treat yo’self!” Not only do I use it as an excuse to splurge on...
November 26, 2014
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