Feminist Pride Day 2012

• Question: Are there going to be "This is what a feminist looks like" tshirts on sale at the event at Harvard Thursday night? That would be awesome! - Anonymous
• Answer:

  We can definitely make that happen at the “Activism and the Feminist Blogosphere” panel being hosted at Harvard. They’re cheaper* in person because we don’t have to pay shipping and handling, but if you’re not local to the Boston area, you can order a shirt for $20 online through IndieGoGo. Just make sure to read our sizing guide and email us with your size at feministcomingoutday@gmail.com.

  * $10 for Harvard students/$15 for non-students. The Harvard College Women’s Center is subsidizing part of the cost for discounted shirts.

We’re excited to announce the first of many events taking place on March 8th, 2011 (and the days that follow) as part of Feminist Coming Out Day. This one comes from Harvard University, our founding campus partner, and features a portrait gallery and an all-star panel of feminist bloggers from around the web!

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Feminist Coffeehouse & Reception for Feminist Portrait Project
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011, 7:30-9:00 PM
Ticknor Lounge

Are you a Harvard feminist? Show it! Join us in raising awareness of feminism’s goals and continuing relevance by showing your support on Harvard University’s second Feminist Coming Out Day, a part of the Harvard College Women’s Center’s Women’s Week. Throughout the day, don pins and shirts to declare “This Is What A Feminist Looks Like”. By night, check out our “Feminist Coffeehouse” and “Feminist Portrait Project”, which display the diverse face of feminism on campus.

Panel Discussion: Activism & the Feminist Blogosphere
Thursday, March 10th, 2011, 7:00-8:30 PM
Ticknor Lounge

Follow-up Feminist Coming Out Day with a panel discussion with feminist bloggers to explore how to translate this discussion into activism. Confirmed panelists are Chloe Angyal and Lori Adelman ‘08 (Feministing.com), Julie Zeilinger (The F-Bomb), Cherie Hannouche (The Daily Femme), Andrea Plaid (Racialicious), Sady Doyle (Tiger Beatdown), Anna North (Jezebel), and Lena Chen ‘10 (The Chicktionary).

Feminist Coming Out Day at Harvard is headed by the Radcliffe Union of Students (the undergraduate feminist group of which our co-organizer Abby Sun is president), the Queer Students & Allies (of which co-organizer Lena Chen is former board member), and the fabulous Athena Program, which empowers high school girls through mentoring and conferences.

Will you be in Cambridge on March 8th or 10th? RSVP to our Facebook event and help us spread the word to Boston area feminists!

Check out all the great events going on this week for Feminist Coming Out Day at the University of Texas!

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Austin, Texas

Interactive Art Project | Wall of Truth
Gender and Sexuality Center
Monday, March 7-Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin invites YOU to come tell your truths on Feminist Coming Out Day. Have you ever felt you couldn’t express yourself as a feminist? What are the consequences of telling the truth in today’s society? We want you to give a face to feminism! We want you to come tell your truths by creating and posting them to our Wall of Truth which will be on display in the GSC. We will have truth-telling supplies for you. All you have to do is tell it. From March 7-8th we invite you to come create a “postsecret”* telling your truth as a feminist and post it to our board. It will then be displayed on our Wall of Truth in the GSC until the 11th.

Hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Feminist Action Project Table
West Mall
Tuesday, March 8th, 11:00am-2:00pm

What does a feminist look like?  Come join the discussion at the Feminist Action Project table at the International Women’s Day collective event.  Pose with our picture frame for inclusion in the online archive of feminists on campuses across the U.S., or submit your own statement or image on their website with UT-Austin in the text.

Also check out our statue project- which feminists would you like to see as statues at UT?  We’ll have posters of Gloria Anzaldua, Betty Dodson, and Dolores Huerta along with information on these powerful women. What would campus look like if one of them had a statue instead of Jefferson Davis (for example)? Come check out Feminist Action Project for these activities and to learn about our April 1st & 2nd conference, “Feminism is for Every(body)”.

Hosted by the Feminist Action Project.

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Workshop | Truth Telling: A Feminist Act
Gender and Sexuality Center, Student Activity Center 2.112
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 6-7:30pm

The Gender and Sexuality Center: Serving Women and LGBTQ Communities is proud to present a workshop on truth-telling as a feminist act. Heather Davies, LCSW will guide us in exploring our truths as feminists, understanding these truths, and expressing these truths — post-secret style. These feminist truth telling post-secrets will be displayed on our Wall of Truth through March 11. 

Over the last seven years, Heather Davies has thoroughly enjoyed nurturing and sharing her feminist lens, first as a counselor and trainer with Waterloo Counseling Center and then as a counselor, advocate, and trainer with UT Austin’s Voices Against Violence (VAV) Program. While she continues to co-teach VAV’s Theatre for Dialogue class during the Fall semester, she also recently launched a full-time counseling practice focused on creative and holistic approaches to health, wellness, and thriving.

Space is limited. To register for the workshop please email us at gsc@austin.utexas.edu and let us know you want to come.

Hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Feminist Coming Out Day At Wellesley!

Check out all the fabulous events happening at Wellesley College all week long! We’re super psyched to have a women’s college on board our campaign :)

WELLESLEY COLLEGE
Wellesley, Massachusetts

SRR + SHEs + WEED + SJFSF = Environmental Feminism
Monday March 7th, 8-9pm in the HOOP

Tabling by Democracy Rising and Amnesty International
Tuesday March 8th, 11am-4pm on the 4th Floor of the Wang
Learn about International Women’s Day and wear pink for Feminist Coming Out Day.

A Talk by Sonalini Sapra “The Wall Behind the Door Gender, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice in India”
Tuesday March 8th, 4:15pm-5:45pm in the Multifaith Center, Main Room

“Emerging Perspectives on Family and Inequality” a presentation and dialogue featuring Joya Misra and Karen Hansen
Thursday March 10th, 4pm in PNE 212

[Facebook Event Page]

SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
Cedar City, Utah

Women Rock! 
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011, 7:30-9:00 PM
Gotham Comic Shop, 1065 South Main Street

It is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day and the SUU Center for Women and Families is celebrating in style! Come out for a FREE concert with Vernicious Kind and Vindustyrus (two awesome pro-women bands) and the lovely ladies of Off the Cuff Improv may be making an appearance as well!

Feminist Coming Out Day At Brandeis!

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Waltham, Massachusetts

Women’s Resource Center, Shapiro Campus Center 3rd floor
Tuesday, March 8, 7-8pm

What does it mean to be a feminist? FEMINISM is the logical response to sexism; it exists because sexism exists. FEMINISM is “the radical notion that women are people.” We’re feminists. We’re proud of it. As part of a national effort to encourage people to embrace their feminist roots we are throwing a feminist coming out day celebration and you’re all invited.

Hosted by the Brandeis Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. [Facebook Event Page] [Facebook Group]

Check out the Feminist Coming Out Day street team at the February 26th Planned Parenthood rally in New York City. We raised $1,500 and met feminists of all ages and backgrounds! Looking forward to seeing you guys submit photos in your tees. Wear it with pride :)

Photo Credit: Stephen Yang

We’re adding new happenings everyday to our growing list of national events planned for Feminist Coming Out Day. Some schools are celebrating on March 8th, but many will also feature programming in the weeks that follow, all throughout Women’s History month. We’ll be posting event announcements on our website, so check back often to see if there’s something happening near you!

ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND
St. Mary’s City, Maryland

Feminist Portrait Gallery, Arts & Crafts Table, & “Mocktail” Party
Monday, March 7th-Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies themed housing and the Feminists United for Sexual Equality at St. Mary’s College of Maryland are presenting several activities in observance of Feminist Coming Out Day on campus.  We will host a poster portrait gallery of members of the SMCM community who identify as feminists.  Members of the WGSX house and FUSE will have a table at the Campus Center with a banner asking, “What does feminism mean to you?” on which students will be able to write responses.  We will also have art supplies and blank poster templates to allow students to draw themselves in order to be included in the portrait gallery.  The event will culminate in a “cupcake social” for students and faculty to discuss what what feminism means to them.

[Facebook Event]

Want to submit your event for inclusion or get your school recognized as an official campus partner? Email us at feministcomingoutday@gmail.com.

Hey Los Angeles area feminists, check out these local events happening at two schools on March 8th! There’s a lunch event and an evening event, so for those folks who can’t make it because of class or work … check out the panel at 6pm. And please forward/repost this information so that your friends and colleagues in California can take part :)

POMONA COLLEGE
Claremont, California

Feminist Coming Out Day Lunch
Upper Lounge, Walker Hall
Tuesday, March 8th, 12-1pm

Pomona College Women’s Union is going to be hosting a “Feminist Coming Out Day” lunch event centered around sharing some of our favorite moments of feminist consciousness. Come for conversation about what feminism(s) means to us in our local, global, and personal contexts. Bring your own lunch; we’ll be providing an array of yummy desserts.

Hosted by the Pomona College Women’s Union. [Facebook Event Page] [Facebook Fan Page]

PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
Pasadena, California

Feminist Coming Out Day Panel
The Circadian, Campus Center
Tuesday, March 8th, 6-8pm

Calling all feminists at Pasadena City College! PCC Feminist Club is hosting a Feminist Coming Out Day panel on March 8th in the Circadian from 6-8 PM! Our panel will be focusing on why it’s important to come out as a feminist as opposed to the oft-said, “I’m not a feminist, but…” and how our panelists have incorporated feminism into their everyday lives.

Our panelists include:

• Myra Duran, National Campus Organizer for Feminist Majority Foundation
• Kathy Heintzman, Women’s Literature and English teacher at Arcadia High School
• Krystle Madrid, therapist for female victims of trauma
• Phoebe Brauer, Public Affairs Manager for Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley
• Dinah Stephens, Public Affairs Coordinator for Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.

Hosted by the PCC Feminist Club. [Facebook Fan Page] [Facebook Event [Twitter] [PCCFeministClub@gmail.com]