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Advocating for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
March 7, 2024
Women in Construction
A brief discussion of women in the construction field and their contributions to the industry.
March 8, 2024
Psychology Club presents Movie Night-Hidden Figures
March 13, 2024
Women's History Month Documentary Series
The Pill: The History of the Birth Control Pill
Time: 12:40-1 p.m.
LB 220
March 14, 2024
The Baby Broker Project:
Inside the World's Leading Low-Cost Surrogacy Agency
The Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium proudly presents Naipanoi Lepapa, an award-winning Pulitzer Center grantee and 2022 Journalist of the Year in Kenya. She is passionate about underreported issues in human rights, gender, health technology, the environment, and climate change. Lapapa will be with us in person at GCC discuss her journalistic process and the findings of her investigative reporting on low-cost surrogacy in Kenya.
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Kreider Hall (SR 138)
March 14, 2024
The Psychology Club presents: Hidden Figures
Time: 6 p.m.
SV 222
March 15, 2024
Theatre Guild presents:
The Vagina Monologues!
The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler. Ensler interviewed over 250 women to create a series of stories that present lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories to talk about female anatomy.
Come have a laugh, push yourself to reconsider some of your ideas, and talk about the things everyone thinks, but no one says.
Time: 7 p.m.
March 15, 2024
Psychology Club and Feminist Society Present
OneLove Workshop
March 19, 2024
GCC Board of Trustees present:
Brittany Klintworth shares her research: "The Fashion Industry as a Safe Haven for Women"
GCC Board of Trustees Celebrates Women's History Month with student Brittany Klintworth, 2023 Pulitzer Center reporting fellow Presentation: "The Fashion Industry as a Safe Haven for Women." Ms. Klintworth will present her findings and a brief report on her trip to Washington, D.C., representing our college as a member of the Pulitzer Center Colloquium.
Time: 5 p.m.
Location: Board of Trustee Meeting/Kreider Hall (SR 138)
March 20
Library and Student Services have joined forces
Please join us in welcoming Nare Garibyan, Judith Verduzco, and Maral Pushian Sultanian
Storytime with local independent children's book authors. Connect with the minds behind the stories! Hear their writing stories, inspirations, and the magic of creating children's literature firsthand!
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Library
March 26, 2024
Hosted by Disabled Student Programs:
“A Life Worth Living” Guest Speaker: Cynde Soto
Advocate for accessibility of public transportation and homecare, and founding member of Aging and Disability Transportation Network.
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Live on Zoom
Zoom ID: 834 9852 0214
Live Captioning | FLEX approved/CPGU pending, sign up through VRC DSPS thanks the GCC Foundation for their support of this event.
March 26, 2024
Science Lecture Series
Rila Chartier
Bound for Glory: An Analysis of Osteoarthritis in the Spine as a Consequences of Long-Term Corsetry
March 28, 2024
The Psychology Club presents
The One Love Workshop will is a workshop. to help understand the warning signs of relationship abuse and the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location: SV 222
March 28, 2024
ASGCC presents:
Makoto Hunter presents "Monogamy Triumphant: Romance Plots, Revisionist Memory, and the Latter-day Saint Rapprochement with American Sex, 1881–1901"– About two Mormon women authors: one who reworked the romance genre to create a polygamous romance for herself; the other who rewrote Mormon history to get pretend there was no polygamy and better fit romances. Hunter is a historian of the long nineteenth century in the United States. Her research focuses on how the federal regulation of sexuality in antipolygamy and anti-prostitution laws served to police and limit the sexual privacy and bodily autonomy of women who were plural wives and sex workers.
Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Location: Student Center
April 3
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee presents
Speaker: Sumun Pendakur discusses Women in DEIA
Time: 12:20-1:30PM
Location: Learning Center Classroom AD-232G
May 1
Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture Series presents
Speaker: Dr. Rory Dicker shares A History of U.S. Feminisms
Mary Jane Biancheri, Robyn Fishman, Emily Haraldson,
Karen Swett, and Megan Torrey-Payne
Organizing events this year: Vanessa Abcede, Michelle Calderwood, Sangita Dube, Julie Gamberg, Nare Garibyan, Romy Griepp, Maite Peterson, Michelle Stonis, Eleni Tsaggouri, and Kay Wilson. Thank you to the Feminist Society, Psychology Club, and Theatre Guild!