wrc Events

Storytelling as Healing: A Native American Heritage Month Event

Printmaking Workshop with the Trans Women's Community Project

Community Collage Night & Zine-Making Event presented by the Peer Support Project

New Term...Old School Crafts!

Claim Your Story presented by the Peer Support Project

UFO: Unique Friend-Shipping Opportunity

7th Annual Feminist of Color Spring Awards Ceremony

Big Trans Movie Night presented by the Trans Women's Community Project

AA&PI Heritage Short Film Fest presented by the Feminist of Color Community Project

Get That Money! Scholarship Workshop presented by the Peer Support Project

Craft & Chill presented by the Peer Mentorship Project

A Short Film Night: Centering the Stories of Gender Justice Beyond the Traditional Narratives of Womanhood. 

The Women's Resource Center's Feminists of Color Community Project (FOCCP) cordially invites you to attend the sixth annual Feminist of Color Awards Brunch on Thursday June 2nd, 2022 at 2pm!

We will be gathering for a casual, outdoor, picnic brunch to celebrate ourselves and our community. Feel free to bring a blanket, a snack, a friend, a game, or just yourself!

This informal ceremony will honor the achievements, lived experiences, brilliance and resiliency of students, faculty and staff of color at Portland State University. It is our goal to disrupt the normative and traditional award ceremonies that center few, and open a space that honors the collective contributions of many. With that said, we are asking that all attendees of color gift themselves with an award. In addition to gifting yourself an award, please help us in nominating/gifting other students, faculty and staff of color at PSU.

Dead Week got you down? Take a break from studying and stop by Sip and Snack with the WRC! Get chat-tea with us to learn about leadership opportunities and our services, and get a boost before finals week. We’ll have cookies, coffee, and tea for your enjoyment, so be sure to stop by before we run out! 

Join the Trans Women’s Community Project for our 3rd Annual Big Trans Movie Night! 

Cozy up with us in the WRC Lounge on Thursday, May 26th from 5-8pm as we celebrate Trans stories in this 3rd annual event. This event will be hosted in person and is open to all students. Stay tuned for more details, including our movie title announcement! Closed Captions will be provided. 

Interested in participating in a mentorship program? Want to learn from current and former mentors and mentees? Want to learn about what mentorship can do for you? The Women’s Resource Center’s Peer Mentorship Project is excited to host our campus and community mentor panel on The Power of Mentorship! Join us to learn more about the importance of mentorship in and outside academic settings. We are excited to highlight and share our various campus and community mentorship programs and all their resources and services they offer! Hear from our panelist on their different experiences being mentors and mentees and how mentorship has impacted their academic, career, and person development. Virtual event on Tuesday, May 3rd from 2:30pm to 4pm.

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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 2022 theme: “Collective Self-Determination: Power, Transformation, and Accountability.”  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.

 Join us for a panel discussion with community leaders Anna So, Vo, and  claire barrera, moderated by Zubbi Azubuike. 

Power Mapping: This trauma-informed workshop takes participants through reflections on arenas of well-being and current circumstances in their contexts where they have agency, power and where they can take, or let go of, action. This exploratory work is the beginning of recognizing personal direction, limitations and boundary-setting.

Zine About It is brought to you by our very own Trans Women's Community Project (TWCP). In the workshop, you will learn a brief history of Feminist Zine Making and then be supported in creating your own.

Healing from stress and trauma is often most effective when done through the body. Regulating our nervous system helps us arrive in playful, curious states. In turn, those creative states allow us to explore and imagine new ways of doing and being. We'll use a series of somatic and improvisational activities to explore all these things: self- and co-regulation, agency and consent, and imaginative work.

Are you curious about finding different jobs, internships, and career opportunities?

Want to learn how to stand out in an application or interview? 

Need help networking and finding the right workspace and environment for you?

Come join us at Get that Job, led by the PSU WRC in partnership with the PSU Career Center via Zoom.

Join the WRC and event facilitator, J. Von Saechao, for a hands-on session exploring the process of altar-assembly as a creative healing practice and a method of intimately honoring + returning to our selves as survivors. Participants will be guided by creative prompts with the opportunity to engage in group reflection while assembling their individual virtual altars.

Join the Feminist of Color Community Project for their Winter Film Fest, Honoring Black Stories!

How do we transform what we have been given into something more in alignment with what we envision for our current selves? What are some ways we can resist throwaway culture through reclaiming what is often deemed as disposable? 

These will become more than just metaphors and will act as the basis in which we will reflect while creating in community. Participants will be offered the space to connect and freely create among fellow survivors through digital collage.

This workshop will be led by WRC alum, J. Von Saechao (they/them/ninh). J. is a fat, queer, non-binary, Indigenous Khmu and Iu Mien storyteller, teaching artist, interdisciplinary creator and Ancestor-In-Training.

Join FOCCP for the virtual fall edition of Feminist Film Fest: Honoring Native Films, where we will be watching a movie in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Feminist Film Fest is a series of movie screenings highlighting the work of feminists of color in front and behind the camera!

Thursday, November 18, 2021 1-3 pm PST (Via Zoom)

Come learn how to apply for scholarships and write a great essay just in time for scholarship season, and learn more about resources on campus!

Tuesday, November 16th 4-6 pm PST (Via Zoom)

This workshop will center on holding space for communal reflection, release, and rest. We will be engaging creatively with the aforementioned themes through a guided breathing exercise and various prompts to aid participants in their reflection + creative process. There will also be time for folks to share their creations. This space is offered to self-identified survivors of violence.

Please come ready with your favorite tools for writing and/or art-making, whether physical or digital. Potential variations of this can look like: a pen and a journal, pencils/markers and a sketch pad, a digital blank piece of paper for writing/drawing/painting.