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Spring 2012 Support Groups

**Women's Discussion Group

Mondays, 4-5pm

**Al-Anon

Tuesdays, 3-4pm

**AA 101 Study Group

Wednesdays, 12-1pm

**Wise and Wonderful Older Women (WWOW)

1st Wednesday, 5-6pm

**On-site Academic Advisement for Re-entry, 1st years and Sophmores

Thursdays, 1-3pm

**Coming Soon:

Body Image Group!

For more info, 277-3716

UNM Women's Resource Center

MSC 06 3910
Mesa Vista Hall, 1160
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

Phone: (505) 277-3716
 Fax: (505) 277-2913

UNM Women's Resource Center


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

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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 THANKS!  

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.

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In February 2012:

We invite you to the UNM VDay 2012 Event week!

Empower. Enlighten. END violence towards women.

Come join us in a week of exciting events beginning Monday, February 13th and continuing through to our final performance of The Vagina Monologues on Sunday, February 19th. 

MONDAY, Feb. 13:

Free film screening of "Miss Representation". Check out http://www.missrepresentation.org/ for more info, or contact mabalk04@unm.edu. Sponsored by the Biology Graduate Student Union in association with the Women's Resource Center. SUB Theatre, 3:30-5:00pm, with a discussion panel from 5:00-6:00pm.

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TUESDAY, Valentine's Day:

Teaser performance of The Vagina Monologues and information on the VDAY 2012 Campagin in the SUB Atrium! Starts at 11:00am.

 WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15:

Free one-hour meditation to end violence towards women. Donations towards our three charities are welcome. Sani Yoga Studio,134 Harvard Dr. SE (see http://saniyoga.com/), 7:45-8:45pm.

THURSDAY, Feb. 16:

Free Yoga Mala practice - 108 sun salutations with the intention set towards ending violence against women. You are free to come and go if you can’t stay for the entire mala. SUB Ballroom C, 11:00am-3:00pm.

FRIDAY, Feb. 17:

UNM Teach-In. The theme will be empowering women around the world. Stop by to hear a variety of speakers from on- and off-campus, and get FREE CHAIR MASSAGE after 12:00pm. SUB Atrium, 11:00am.

Find us on Facebook! Come “like” the WRC Facebook page to get all the latest updates: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNM-Womens-Resource-Center/241079369277586

Witness the revolution.

The Vagina Monologues comes to the UNM main campus in February 2012.

 Hear things said on stage you've never heard before, watch powerful women strut their stuff, and get inspired.

Performances are:

SATURDAY, FEB. 18TH at 7:00PM
SUNDAY, FEB. 19TH at 2:00PM
in Theatre X, in the basement of Popejoy Hall

ON SALE NOW!!!  Purchase advance tickets at: www.unmtickets.com

 The Vagina Monologues is part of a greater movement, VDay, which works to prevent violence against women all over the world. This play is entirely volunteer-driven and student led. We are dedicated to a cause: to promote women's empowerment, and to have fun doing it. All proceeds will be split between the WRC Sabrina Single Mother's Scholarship, Young Women United, and the VDay Spotlight Campaign: Women and Girls of Haiti.

***FEATURING over 30 UNM students***

*** SPECIAL APPEARANCE by several of UNM's own MEN. That's right. We have man-ologues, too. Come fathers, brothers, lovers all! ***

*** ALSO FEATURING monologues from playwright Eve Ensler's new book, "I Am An Emotional Creature," an ode to a younger generation of powerful girls. ***

The Vagina Monologues event page can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/events/227997967279219/

This production is co-sponsored by the UNM Women’s Resource Center, SCRAP, the Feminist Research Institute, Women Studies, and the UNM Department of Theatre & Dance. 

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February Highlights in US Women's History

  • Feb 1, 1978 - First postage stamp to honor a black woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued in Washington, DC
  • Feb 4, 1987 - First National Women in Sports Day is celebrated by Presidential Proclamation
  • Feb. 12 1869 - the Utah Territory passes a law allowing women to vote
  • Feb 15, 1921 - The Suffrage Monument, depicting Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott, and carved by Adelaide Johnson, is dedicated at the U.S. Capitol
  • Feb 15, 1953 - Tenley Albright is the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating championship
  • Feb 17, 1870 - Esther Hobart Morris became the first American woman Justice of the Peace
  • Feb 24, 1912 - Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah, the largest Jewish organization in American history, focusing on healthcare and education in the Israel and the US
  • Feb 24, 1967 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell makes the first discovery of a pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star
  • Feb 25 1986 - Corazon Aquino sworn in as the first woman President of the Philippines
  • Feb 27, 1922 - US Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees women the right to vote

February Birthdays

  • Feb 1, 1878 (1950) - Hattie Wyatt Caraway , first woman elected to the US Senate(1932, D-AR) and first woman to preside over the Senate in 1943
  • Feb 3, 1821 (1910) - Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman awarded a medical degree in US (1849)
  • Feb 3, 1874 (1946) - Gertrude Stein, poet, author, art critic; famous for: "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
  • Feb 4, 1913 (2005) - Feb 4, 1913 - Rosa Parks - "Mother of Civil Rights Movement;" her arrest after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.With her consent, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson along with a colleague and two students mimeographed 35,000 handbills calling for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system, which eventual led to the Supreme Court decision to integrate buses.
  • Feb 4, 1921 (2006) - Betty Friedan, a uthor and activist; wrote “The Feminine Mystique” (1963); cofounder of National Organization for Women (NOW) (1966)
  • Feb 7, 1867 (1957) - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of beloved "Little House" books
  • Feb 9, 1944 - Alice Walker, writer, first African American woman to win Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for “The Color Purple” (1983)
  • Feb 10, 1927 - Leontyne Price, Grammy award winning opera singer
  • Feb 13, 1906 (1990) - Pauline Frederick, journalist, first woman network radio correspondent (1939), first woman to moderate a presidential debate (1976)
  • Feb 15, 1820 (1906) - Susan B. Anthony, leader of 19th century women's right movement; strategist; lecturer
  • Feb 16, 1870 (1927) - Leonora O'Reilly, labor organizer; founding member of Woman's Trade Union League; helped found NAACP
  • Feb 18, 1931 - Toni Morrison , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist; first African-American to win Nobel Prize for Literature (1993)
  • Feb 21, 1855 (1902) - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator; founded predecessor organization to American Assn. of University Women (AAUW) in 1881
  • Feb 22, 1876 (1938) - Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sha), writer; Sioux Indian activist; founded National Council of American Indians (1926)
  • Feb 22, 1892 (1950) - Edna St. Vincent Millay, first woman to receive Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923)
  • Feb 27, 1897 (1993) - Marian Anderson, opera singer, first African-American member of the New York Metropolitan Opera (1955)

Honor Black History Month by taking the African-American Women's History 40 Question Challenge!

-information retrieved from The National Women's History Project