2023 Women’s History Month events scheduled

March 6, 2023
Categories: General News Tags: Academic Affairs

Celebrate Women’s History Month at UNC Charlotte. Plan to participate in one or more of these events in March:

Thursday, March 16, 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Steps on our Journey: Women of Color Faculty Roundtable
College of Health and Human Services, Room 281, and live stream
Participants: Banita Brown, associate dean, CLAS; Cheryl Brown, political science and public administration; Yvette Huet, biological sciences; Lisa Meriweather, education leadership; Pinku Mukherjee, biological sciences; and Sonya Ramsey, history. Moderator, Sharon Hayes-Brown, English and Women’s Studies graduate certificate alumna; faculty and incoming lecturer

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies program

Tuesday, March 21, 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Roundtable: Reflecting Back and Moving Forward, Black and Women of Color Leadership and Empowerment in the New South
Harvey B. Gantt Center, 551 South Tryon Street
Free to the public; registration required

Participants: Kim Bradley, chief of staff, Office of the Chancellor; Crystal Hill, interim superintendent, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools; Dee Dixon, president and CEO, Pride Magazine; Raichelle Glover, market president, Truist Bank; Reverend Debra Hopkins, CEO, There’s Hope; Carmen Shaw, assistant vice president of nursing excellence, Atrium Health; Vilma Leake, commissioner, Mecklenburg County Board; Geraldine Sumter, Ferguson, Chambers & Sumter, P.A.; Krista Terrell, president, Arts and Science Council; and Rosalina Torres-Weiner, Charlotte-based artist and activist.
Sponsored by: the Women’s and Gender Studies program

Thursday, March 23
Virtual Presentations: Controlling Our Bodies, Controlling Our Lives

  • 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Zoom
    “Trans Approaches to Reproductive Justice,” Ash Williams, Charlotte alum and trans activist
  • 6 to 7:30 p.m., Zoom

“Plotting for the Starved,” L.H. Stallings, Department of Africana Studies, Georgetown University, and author of “A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South”

Sponsored by The Women’s and Gender Studies program

Wednesday, March 29
{We Move} Feminism and Activism, Then and Now

A gender-expansive dialogue series that includes topics relevant to all genders. All invited, no registration required.

  • Noon to 2 p.m., Popp Martin Student Union, Second Floor
    Community Resource Fair
  • 2:30 to 3:45 p.m., Halton Reading Room, Atkins Library
    “Legacies of Gender and Women’s Activism at Bennett College,”
    Speaker: Linda Brown, Greensboro sit-ins participant
  • 4 to 5:30 p.m. and 5 to 7:30 p.m., Popp Martin Student Union Theater
    TikTok Boom Film Screening and Talk Back Student Panel

Sponsored by UNC Charlotte’s Center for the Study of the New South; Holocaust Studies Center; Women’s and Gender Studies Program; and Office of Identity, Equity and Engagement

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