Important news from NMSU's Women's Studies Department!

March is Women's History month.
While we should, in our every day lives, take into respectful consideration what women have done for America and the world... March is THE Women's History (HERstory) month. For more information on the National Women's History Project please visit
http://www.nwhp.org/aboutnwhp/history.php

The following are events that will be provided by NMSU's WS department.

"Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet"

* Opening Reception and Art Display hosted by WSP and the Library: 3-5p.m. March 2, Branson Library, Stras Reading Room Lobby. The exhibit features screen prints of 20 leading women environmentalists, including Dr. Connie Falk of NMSU. All screen prints are the work on NMSU art students. This event is sponsored by the WSP and the Branson Library.
* Poetry Reading by Don Mee Choi from her translation of Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women: March 13 (Location TBA, keep checking web site for news)
* Film on Jeanette Rankin called, A Single Woman: 1:30p.m. March 14, Fountain Theatre
* Lecture by Dr. Dena Goodman, Freedom and Happiness: Rethinking Love and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century France, 7:00p.m. March 17, Science Hall 107
* Women's Studies Hosts Coffee with the Deans: 8:30-9:45 March 18, Women's Studies Offices, Science Hall 28

Everyone is Welcome to Attend these Events! For more details please check out http://www.nmsu.edu/~wstudies/womens-history-month.html


A new mid-term course is being offered.

What better place to post information about this particular course but on a web blog! Think about taking this course.

Cyberfeminisms: Feminist Digital Cultures

WS 450 M71: 32154/WS 550 M71: 32155

This online mini-course examines the ways in which Web 2.0 informs contemporary feminist practice. Often described as the second-generation of the internet, Web 2.0 encourages and facilitates sharing and collaboration in the form of blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and video hosting, among others. These tools offer new platforms for organizing activism and disseminating feminist thought, as well as rethinking how information is relayed between creators and viewers. Students will explore the kinds of feminist cultural work being done on the internet and the way, as Danielle Maestretti states, "Moving from one voice, one subject, one discussion to another, it's clear that today's feminism is about everything. And it's this appeal to the mainstream, this proliferation of different perspectives and dissenting opinions that has the potential to make the f-word acceptable again."

Eve Ensler- Founder of V-Day

Submitted by FREE member Virginia

NMSU Round up article on FREE

Student organization vows to redefine 'feminisim' - News

In Fall of 2008 a reporter from the NMSU campus newspaper interviewed FREE co-presidents Naomi Estrada and Katie Silva