Women's History Month at USC

Celebrate Women's History Month 2006 with storyteller, conference

A leadership workshop, book signing, and the Clothesline Project are some of the activities scheduled for this year's Women's History Month 2006.

The schedule is:

March 2, activist and storyteller Tootsie Holland will discuss the history of the Women's Movement in South Carolina. 7-9 p.m., Russell House, Room 305. For more information, call Mae Wilson at 238-9935.
March 15, Women's Studies Research Series Lecture, "Students Creating New Knowledge," 3:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 250, Gambrell Hall. For more information, call Women's Studies Programs at 7-4007.
March 15, Women's Leadership Workshop, 5 p.m., Russell House, Room 201. The workshop will feature a discussion relating to successes and struggles in relationship to leadership and a speaker from the YWCA. For more information, call Women's Student Services at 7-8165.
March 16, book signing, featuring Vennie Deas Moore, author of Home: Portraits from the Carolina Coast. 5:30-7 p.m., McKissick Museum.

Vinnie Deas Moore
March 17, Latina Women in the Southeast, noon, Russell House, Room 305. Speakers will include Elaine Lacy, De Anne Messias, Suzanne Swan, and Wendy Campbell. Lacy will moderate a panel whose members will discuss the health, wellbeing, and lives of Latina women in the Southeast. For more information, call Lacy at 7-5466.
March 20, Outstanding Women at USC Celebration, 4:30 p.m., Russell House Ballroom. The Office of Women's Student Services will recognize women at USC who are making a difference in their communities. For more information, call Women's Student Services at 7-8165.

Jean Kilbourne
March 21, Jean Kilbourne, 8 p.m., Russell House Ballroom. Kilbourne is a media critic, author, and filmmaker. She will discuss the impact of advertising values and behavior and talk about the role of women in advertising. For more information, call Carolina Productions at 7-7130.
March 28, Rebekka Armstrong, 8 p.m. Russell House Ballroom. An HIV-positive

Rebekka Armstrong

former Playboy Playmate, Armstrong will discuss her experience of living with AIDS. For more information, call Carolina Productions at 7-7130.
March 29, Women's Studies Research Series Lecture, "The Long, Hot Melodramas: Gender and Other Southern Disorders in Films of the Fifties and Sixties," 3:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall. Susan Courtney, English and Film Studies Program, will be the speaker. For more information, call Women's Studies Programs at 7-4007.
April 4, Denim Day, began in 1999 as part of an international protest following an Italian Supreme Court decision to overturn a rape conviction because the victim wore jeans. The justices decided that because jeans are not easily removed without cooperation and impossible to take off if someone is resisting, the victim must have been complicit in her assault. For more information, call the Office of Sexual Health and Violence Prevention at 7-8248.
April 5, The Clothesline Project, Greene Street. T-shirt painting sessions will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in the South Tower Conference Room March 27; 5-7 p.m. in the South Quad Lounge and Classroom March 27; 7-9 p.m. in Columbia Hall Classroom I March 28; 5-7 p.m. in Towers Classroom and in South Tower Conference Room, and 7-9 p.m. in Capstone Basement, Sims Classroom, and Wade Hampton Lobby March 29; and 7-9 p.m. March 30 in McClintock Lobby. Each year, the USC Office for Sexual Health and Violence Protection sponsors the Clothesline Project to help break the silence of interpersonal violence. Participants paint T-shirts to represent personal sorrows and triumphs. For more information, call the Office of Sexual health and Violence Prevention at 7-8248.
April 6-7, Walk in My Shoes, Greene Street. The Office of Sexual Health and Violence Prevention is collecting shoes, tying them together, and placing true stories inside. The shoes will be used to line Greene Street to represent the 1,839 reported cases of sexual assault in South Carolina last year. For more information, call the Office of Sexual Health and Violence Prevention at 7-8248.
Through April 15, exhibit, featuring the career of Pulitzer Prize winning-author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who wrote The Yearling. Thomas Cooper Library, Mezzanine.