The Women’s Centre is now closed for the summer, and will re-open in September. Thanks to all of our volunteers and friends who made this year so awesome!
Stay tuned for more information on getting involved next year…

“Taking WACK! Personally: The Two Traceys (Emin and Moffatt) or how I used visual culture to bring 1965-80 feminism into the present”

Dr. Sneja Gunew
Professor, English and Women’s Studies, UBC

The serendipitous presence of the WACK! exhibition of feminist art 1965-80 at the Vancouver Art Gallery over the last few months presented a unique opportunity to induct upper-level undergraduate Women’s Studies students into these earlier feminist decades. Amongst the pedagogical strategies I used was to look at the personal as a liberating concept for women in that it helped articulate women’s differences as part of generating second-wave feminism. However, it has also functioned to trap women by reducing them to the personal and the domestic at the expense of their participation in the public realm. In the context of considerations of feminist pedagogy, the talk will look at the distinctive ways in which two contemporary women artists interpret the personal. British artist Tracey Emin’s work embraces the autobiographical as intertwined with the sexual, whereas Australian artist Tracey Moffatt’s emphasis on formalism keeps at bay those critics who attempt to essentialise her as an Aboriginal artist.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Humanities Centre L 2, University of Alberta

Hosted by  Women’s Studies U of A

This year’s march will take place at the Alberta Ave. Community Centre (9210-118 Ave) at 7:oo p.m.

The event will include the Clothesline Project, proclaiming how we have been impacted by violence against women. Please bring your already decorated t-shirt, bandanas—or any other material or art—for hanging on this display.

Pictures, posters or banners representing women who are not able to attend – or who did not survive the violence inflicted on them – are also welcome.

Please note that while people of all genders are welcome to come to the event, including the rally, the march itself will be for women only (including trans women).

Take Back the Night Edmonton 2009

Queer knit meets Thursdays

Upstairs at Remedy Café.

109^th street and 87^th ave.

Drop in anytime from 5-8pm with your knitting or other handwork.

Queers and allies welcome

The Centre will be having an open house on Wednesday, February 11 from 10am-4pm in room 4-24 in SUB.  Come meet the volunteers, get a tour of the Centre, browse through our library, learn about what we do at the centre, share your ideas and concerns, talk about what feminism means to you, or just eat some food.  (Did I mention the food?)  Hope to see all of you there!

- Alex

Here are the REVISED Winter Semester UAWCC hours:

Please drop by for a visit! We would love to see you

-Sam

The winter break is over, the shifts have been divvied up, and the Centre is back on its feet. Come by any time for all your patriarchy-smashing needs. Our hours will be posted on the door and on the blog shortly.

- Alex

That’s right, now you can search the entire Women’s Centre collection by title, author, description or anything else you can think of from the comfort of your own home! Simply surf over to our Google Books library and browse away.

Unfortunately, the search feature is a little buggy, and refuses to acknowledge books for which no preview is available. I’ve alerted Google, and they say they’re working on it. The collection is necessarily incomplete, as we can’t add books from publishers who don’t have an agreement with Google. Likewise, zines and the like are not included. If you’ve got a specific volume that you’re wondering about, you can leave a comment here, drop us a line at uawcc@ualberta.ca, or come in and have a look.

The Library page will be continually updated as our collection expands, so stay tuned! Google has been kind enough to add an RSS feed to the Library page, so you compulsive readers out there will be alerted as soon as the Women’s Centre gets a fresh book.

This is just an invitation and reminder that the Women’s Centre is
having a volunteer meeting on November 12 at 6:30pm at Good Earth Cafe
(8623 112 St.).

New volunteers and community members are always welcome.

Have a great long weekend!