UNM Women's Resource Center

The Women's Resource Center is a safe space for all members of the University of New Mexico community.

The UNM Women's Resource Center and Women Studies Program are proud to celebrate our 40th Anniversary. In 1972, our programs were formally established after the dedicated efforts of students, faculty, staff, and community members. To them we give our most heartfelt THANK YOU!

We hope you join us in our year-long celebration. We have many exciting events planned for you! Watch this space or like our facebook page for the most updated information.

NEW--Impact Project: Women's Mentoring Program

Calling all Freshman (First-year), First Generation, Low-Income Women at UNM:

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a real life “social network” pumped to help you succeed? Interested in having a peer mentor, ready to help you make the most of your education at UNM? Then the Impact Project: Women’s Mentoring Program is for you!

What is the Impact Project?

A mentoring relationship is a partnership, with both people showing resepct and support for one another, and an investment is one another's success. The focus of this program is on building networks that support the empowerment, educational and holistic success of first generation, freshmen women on campus through the strength of a mentoring relationship and other exctiting activities. Your efforts in the program will be based around ideas and activities that support these objectives.

What are the benefits?

Join discussions about campus/family/work life

Team building and leadership activities

Identify financial resources

Enjoy a sense of community and support in a safe environment among participants

Interacting with participants outside the program

Identifying and learning how to access community resources for women

When:

The Summer Edition “How to Survive and Shine Your First Year at UNM” will run from May 21^st – August 10^th – there are two required trainings (May 16^th and 17^th) and a 4-6 hour commitment every month. Applications are being accepted until Friday, May 11^th, 2012 at 5 p.m.

*All selected mentees will be notified on Monday, May 14, 2012 by 5 p.m. with further information.

Applications are available now:

Mentee Application

Mentor Application

Physical copies are available at the Women’s Resource Center MSC 06 3910 Mesa Vista Hall, 1160

Return your completed application by Friday, May 11, 2012 to:

Women’s Resource Center MSC 06 3910 Mesa Vista Hall, 1160 or fax to 505.277.2913



For more information:

please email Ambar Calvillo at acalvi01@unm.edu or

Contact the Women’s Resource Center at 505.277.4090

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

The month of April has been designated Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) in the United States. The goal of SAAM is to raise public awareness about sexual violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence.
By working together and pooling our resources during the month of April, we can highlight sexual violence as a major public health, human rights and social justice issue and reinforce the need for prevention efforts.

The 2012 Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) campaign encourages communities and individuals to join the conversation on how we connect and respect one another in order to prevent sexual violence.

The 2012 SAAM campaign provides tools and resources that focus on promoting positive expressions of sexuality and healthy behaviors. Promoting healthy behaviors encourages sexual interactions and relationships that are consensual, respectful and informed. By starting the conversation, this dialogue can build safe, healthy relationships and communities.

Learn more about SAAM at http://www.nsvrc.org/

APRIL 27 & 29 Crossing Borders to End Violence Against Women



How do you end violence against women?

Your first answer may not be art; but for us at El Taller: Centro de Sensibilización y Educación Humana A.C. (The Workshop: Center for Sensitization and Humanizing Education, non-profit) it is the only reasonable place to start.

Since 2001, El Taller A.C., a human rights-based theatre company from Puebla, Mexico, has used art to sensitize, train, and challenge audiences on social issues often overlooked in Mexican society. Starting in late April 2012, El Taller: Centro de Sensibilización y Educación Humana A.C. will visit nine (9) US cities including Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico to present three plays at venues including migrant-focused nonprofit organizations, theatres, and universities. The actor-written productions submerge audiences in interactive farce or Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methodology of Forum Theatre (participatory act out-your-own ending). The themes covered range from human trafficking and forced prostitution (3000 Mujeres) to domestic violence, safe sex, sexual orientation, work-based sexual assault (Mujer no se escribe con M de Macho) to the cruelty suffered by migrant women (a piece we are currently developing).

The WRC, LGBTQ Resource Center and El Centro de la Raza will host a performance of Mujer no se escribe con M de Macho April 27 & 29!

SATURDAY APRIL 28TH UniteWomen

Help defend women’s rights and pursuit of equality. Join Americans all over the United States on April 28^th, as we come together as one telling members of Congress and legislators “Enough is enough!” All people should have the freedom to make medical decisions about their own care and well being without intrusion from government, businesses or religious ideologies.

Join UniteWomen.org in Santa Fe, at the New Mexico State Round House on April 28^th from 10am-2pm to defend individuals and families having the right to choose, or reject birth control, and to determine the size of their families based on their own beliefs and values – and without intrusions.

April Highlights in US Women's History

Apr 2, 1931 - 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell, the second woman to play baseball in the all-male minor leagues, pitches an exhibition game against NY Yankees and strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The next day, the Baseball Commissioner voided her contract, claiming baseball was too strenuous for women. The ban was not overturned until 1992

Apr 5, 1911 - 100,000 to 500,000 people march in New York City to attend the funeral of 7 unidentified people who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in late March

Apr 7, 1805 - Sacagawea begins helping the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter

Apr 7, 1987 - Opening of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the first museum devoted to women artists

Apr 9, 1939 - Marian Anderson sings an Easter Sunday concert for more than 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial

Apr 13, 1933 - Ruth Bryan Owens is the first woman to represent the U.S. as a foreign minister when she is appointed as envoy to Denmark

Apr 19, 1977 - 15 women in the House of Representatives form the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues

April 22, - Earth Day – honor Rachel Carson today, a woman who changed America and greatly influenced the environmental movement; buy her revolutionary book, Silent Spring at www.nwhp.org

April 26, 1777 - American Revolution heroine Sybil Ludington, 16 years old, rides 40 miles by horseback in the middle of the night to warn the American militia that the British were invading

Apr 28, 1993 - First "Take Our Daughters to Work" day, sponsored by the Ms. Foundation; in 2003 it became "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" day

April Birthdays

Apr 3, 1934 - Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist; world's foremost authority on chimpanzees

Apr 4, 1928 - Maya Angelou, author, poet, civil rights activist, actress; composed and read her poem at President Clinton’s inauguration in 1993

Apr 7, 1944 (2002) - Julia Miller Phillips, film producer; first woman to win a Best Picture Academy Award (1973, “The Sting”) as a producer; also produced “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Taxi Driver”

Apr 9, 1887 (1953) - Florence Price, first African American woman symphony composer

Apr 10, 1880 or 1882 (1965) - Frances Perkins, first woman cabinet member, Secretary of Labor in 1933; key contributor to the Social Security Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act

Apr 10, 1903 (1987) - Clare Booth Luce, playwright, Congresswoman (R-CT), Ambassador to Italy (1953-1956)

Apr 10, 1930 - Delores Huerta, Chicana activist; co-founder United Farm Workers union

Apr 12, 1909 (2001) - Eudora Welty, writer, won Pulitzer prize for Fiction in 1973; photographer; winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Literature, and the French Legion d'Honneur

Apr 14, 1866 (1936) - Anne Sullivan Macy, famous teacher of Helen Keller who was blind, deaf, and mute; the two worked and traveled together

Apr 25, 1917 (1996) - Ella Fitzgerald, "First Lady of Song", internationally renowned jazz singer, winner of 13 Grammy Awards

Apr 27, 1927 (2006) - Coretta Scott King, civil rights, human rights, and peace activist

Apr 30, 1939 - Ellen Zwilich, first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music (1983)

Information retrieved from The National Women's History Project