Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies

Katherine Pratt Ewing, Professor in the Department of Religion and the South Asia Institute, is also Coordinator of the Master of Arts Program at SAI and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Sexuality. Until 2010, she was Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University, where she served as the Executive Director of the North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies. In 2010-2011 she was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison before moving to Columbia’s Religion Department in 2011.

Mika Morton, second-degree black belt, will teach the basics of practical self defense (releases from holds, blocking attacks).  Please sign up at go/selfdefense.

Mika Morton, second-degree black belt, will teach the basics of practical self defense (releases from holds, blocking attacks).  Please sign up at go/selfdefense.

In response to learning about the suicides of several teen girls who had experienced slut-shaming and bullying, filmmaker Emily Lindin, herself a victim of sexual shaming, decided to publish her diaries from age 11 to 14 online. From this, the Unslut project and 40-minute documentary evolved. The film includes stories from people of different genders, backgrounds and nationalities.

Presented by Marisol Rodríguez Rosabel, former director of the Office of Artistic Creation and Director of the Muestra Joven (Young Directors Film Festival) and the development program for emerging filmmakers at ICAIC. Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center, and the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Film and Media Culture, and Latin American Studies. Spanish with English subtitles Q and A after screening

Come and celebrate International Women’s Day with us on the Cross Town Bridge! We will be gathering on the side walks of the bridge with our signs, songs, and chants. Children, dogs, and posters are welcome! Sponsored by Chellis House, Women’s Resource Center