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April is Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Month (SAAM)
April is Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Month (SAAM)
Join us during the week of April 19-23, 2021 for a series of virtual events that centers survivors and envisions futures free of violence. And you won't want to miss our annual Take Back the Night keynote event on April 22, 2021. Sign up for our newsletter and follow us on Instagram to get all the details on events and how to register delivered right to you! Keep scrolling for workshops, Take Back the Night,
SAAM will feature Take Back the Night and a series of workshops, programs, and speakers. Check back soon for updates on this year's offerings and how to register.
In celebration of Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Month (SAAM), the Portland State University Women’s Resource Center is hosting a series of events in April centering our 2021 theme: “We Are Each Other’s Future: Resilience, Resistance, and Interdependence.” We invite you to join us in community as we collectively bring awareness to each other in our work to end sexual and gender based violence in all of its forms while imagining a world free of violence.
We are really excited to bring to campus artists and cultural workers this year as our workshop leaders and keynote with a focus on creativity and survival. We are looking forward to conversations about the value and role of creativity and art in survival, how creativity and art can help us center those often left at the margins, and highlight the ways in which anti-violence work is expansive and transformative and rooted in our collective self-determination and liberation from oppression. We hope to inspire futures that dream, envision, revolutionize, shape, dare to exist.
Collectively, we welcome you to help center how our futures are all interconnected and bound in our shared resilience and independence, and that a truly violence free culture must offer safety, dignity, and access for us all. If you would like to support this year’s event, we’re looking for event co-sponsors to help us ensure we’re able to meet the costs of accessibility for all workshops this year. If you’d like to be an event co-sponsors, please contact Alisha Howard at halisha@pdx.edu
We will be announcing our speakers soon and open registration shortly thereafter. Until then, please save the week of April 19th-23rd for this year’s Sexual Assault Awareness & Action Month event series. If you aren’t already receiving our newsletter, sign-up here so you can receive timely announcements and updates about this year’s SAAM.
We will be providing English live captioning and ASL for Take Back the Night and we are committed to centering accessibility practices in all of our events. Please email Cory Lira at lira@pdx.edu with accessibility requests.
As a reminder, currently enrolled students experiencing sexual and relationship violence (sexual assault, sexual harasssment, dating/domestic violence, and or stalking) can be connected to a confidential advocate, book an appointment, and learn more about our program and services here.
SAAM Events & Workshops
SAAM Events & Workshops
You Got This! Honoring Your Art as an Act of Survival with melannie monoceros
You Got This! Honoring Your Art as an Act of Survival with melannie monoceros
Monday April 19th, 2021 2-3:30 pm PST
melannie monoceros is a poet and interdisciplinary artist exploring polysensory production and somatic grief through text/ile. Their work considers the collective qrip (queer+crip) consciousness by connecting to marvelous bodies living with complexity as sick or disabled. A Black creator of Taino and Arawak heritage, they live in Treaty 1/Winnipeg, MB home of the Métis FirstNation and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Dene, Cree, Dakota and Oji-Cree Nations.. In 2019, melannie was awarded the JRG Emerging Artist Award for their continued pursuit, integrating technology and accessibility through film via their series “ancestoradio”. melannie’s work was hosted by Gallery 1C03, Window Gallery, and the C2 Centre for Craft, Manitoba Craft Council (Winnipeg) in 2020 and can be found at the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba in 2021.
Virtual Movement & Dance Workshop
Virtual Movement & Dance Workshop
Tuesday April 20th, 2021 12-1:30 pm PST
NEVE (they/he) is a Nubian (Indigenous Sudanese), Southwest Asian, and Celtic/Germanic American enchantrexx of queer joy and consequences (read: Black American, Indigenous, Arab, queer, multigender femme, trans, Disabled performing artist freak), creating and producing in the realms of dance, musical theatre, and experimental film, and casting punk spells in Duwamish (Seattle) and other Unceded Coast Salish Territories, and being of other rivers- the Raritan, the Mississippi, the Nile. He is a lover of Levar Burton, Reading, and Rainbows. They are the Great Great Grandchild of the Author of The Velveteen Rabbit, and some kind of cousin removed from the dude who wrote The Red Badge of Courage. NEVE is a river fairy and a merqueer and a chip of hard sap shimmering down to the bottom. He is a 2020 Pina Bausch Fellow, and one of the first two Americans to receive the award. They are an award-winning actor and filmmaker, and they are currently working on the screenplay adaptation of their original play Lover of Low Creatures. NEVE is a founder and member of Access-Centered Movement and its connected Coast Salish Territories-based dance/theatre/film production company, Mouthwater. He is the President Elect/Vice President of the Dance Educator’s Association of Washington. They are currently an arts writer and contributing poet at The South Seattle Emerald and has also been published in Curve Magazine, The Black Scholar, Everyday Feminism, ModelViewCulture, Plenitude Magazine, and MaximumRockNRoll, among others.
NEVE likes to drink wine, coffee, tears, and sink into the dance. They are not afraid to rescue you from the sunken place or assist you in seeing him more clearly. They believe in God, Liberation, Land Back, Right of Return, Reparations, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Multiverse. They are polyamorously gay married, and they talk to animals, but the talking to animals came first and shed light on future relationships. Much like that Velveteen Rabbit, they are magical, real, and yearn to be changed by loving. In April through June 2021, they will be teaching songs and scenes from the Tony-winning musical Hadestown for Seattle Theatre Group's Broadway Inclusion program. Follow him on Instagram and Twitter, @nevebebad, and learn more or get in touch via their website nevebebad.com.
The PSU Women's Resource Center Presents
The PSU Women's Resource Center Presents
2021 Take Back the Night Keynote Live Virtual Event
2021 Take Back the Night Keynote Live Virtual Event
April 22, 2021 6-8 pm PST
Keynote: Tourmaline
Free and open to the public. ASL and English Live Captions provided
Register for Take Back the Night Here
Trans Womxn's Community Project
Trans Womxn's Community Project
Friday April 23rd, 2021 1-2 pm PST
Trans Womxn's Community Gatherings center the lived experiences of trans womxn and trans femme students at PSU. Join TWCP for SAAM to share your experiences, build community and celebrate trans bodies and history through activities, storytelling, and dialogue.
Click Here to Sign Up & Get a Zoom Link
Feminist of Color Community Project
Feminist of Color Community Project
Friday April 23rd, 2021 2-3 pm PST
Gather with other PSU students for SAAM in a space that centers the lived experiences of feminists of color through storytelling, dialogue, and community.
Click Here to Sign Up & Get a Zoom Link
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