Events POWER ON, POWER UP, PERFORM: THE POWER OF PUNK: Friday, March 1, 2013 • 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Dorsey Gym, Dorsey Hall Solo and group musical and spoken performers are invited to share their talent at this free coffee-house event. Also learn how women have used performance as a means to challenge the status quo. Enjoy coffee and cocoa, snacks, giveaways and awards for performers. To reserve your performance spot, email tmcompton@ccis.edu by Friday, Feb. 22. REVOLT-ING /v/ Rising in rebellion;causing disgust: Thursday, March 7, 2013 • 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.Lee Room, Dulany Hall Do successful feminists need in-your-face tactics? Join students, faculty and staff as the Philosophy Club facilitates a brown-bag discussion of the “punk” attitude toward making social progress for women. Free Chipotle lunch for the first 50 attendees. REVOLUTION—RIOT GRRRL STYLE: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 • 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. • Dorsey Gym What’s a Riot Grrrl? Who’s Kathleen Hanna?What’s “punk rock feminism?” Join us for pizza and a discussion about the history of the Riot Grrrls and their impact on punk music,feminism and American culture. POWER SURGE: SPREAD YOUR DIY MESSAGE: Monday, March 18, 2013 • 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.CIC Room, AHSC The Riot Grrls created, produced and distributed zines addressing the issues that mattered to them but were ignored by the mainstream media. Come make your own zine about the issues that matter to you with blogs and webpages, or old-school paper and pen.Zines will be displayed at the Power of Punk events on March 20. THE POWER OF PUNK: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Original Riot Grrrl Kathleen Hanna will host a public Q&A session at 3:30 p.m. in the Sidney Larson Gallery. Her evening address, “My Art: Punk Rock Feminism and Beyond,”will begin at 7 p.m. in Launer Auditorium.
Solo and group musical and spoken performers are invited to share their talent at this free coffee-house event. Also learn how women have used performance as a means to challenge the status quo. Enjoy coffee and cocoa, snacks, giveaways and awards for performers. To reserve your performance spot, email tmcompton@ccis.edu by Friday, Feb. 22.
Do successful feminists need in-your-face tactics? Join students, faculty and staff as the Philosophy Club facilitates a brown-bag discussion of the “punk” attitude toward making social progress for women. Free Chipotle lunch for the first 50 attendees.
What’s a Riot Grrrl? Who’s Kathleen Hanna?What’s “punk rock feminism?” Join us for pizza and a discussion about the history of the Riot Grrrls and their impact on punk music,feminism and American culture.
The Riot Grrls created, produced and distributed zines addressing the issues that mattered to them but were ignored by the mainstream media. Come make your own zine about the issues that matter to you with blogs and webpages, or old-school paper and pen.Zines will be displayed at the Power of Punk events on March 20.
Feminism is a big word, but sometimes it's just not big enough. That's when you have to Do It Yourself (DIY). Women have been creating their own feminisms throughout history, using the power tools of their preference to address the issues facing women. From early authors like Mary Wollstonecraft to suffrage activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul, and reformers like Mary McLeod Bethune to the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, DIY Feminism has been a strategy to confront sexism and discrimination. In today's world, the issues facing girls and women are no less complex, complicated, and controversial than in the past, and today's activists have the power and knowledge to continue to confront these issues and affect change. Be educated and inspired to power on and power up YOUR feminism. That's true DIY!
Kathleen Hanna is a New York City-based artist, best known for her groundbreaking performances as a member of the seminal 90′s punk band, Bikini Kill, and her more recent multimedia group, Le Tigre. She is currently making art, giving lectures and writing a new album with her band ‘The Julie Ruin’. Hanna will be presenting her lecture, "My Art: Punk Rock Feminism and Beyond" on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in Launer Auditorium on the Columbia College campus.
First begun as a local celebration of women's history in Santa Rosa, California in 1978, the movement for a national celebration of women's history gained momentum in 1979 at the Women's History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. In February 1980 President Jimmy Carter issued a presidential proclamation recognizing the week of March 8, 1980 as National Women's History Week. Carter's proclamation coincided with resolutions in the House of Representatives and the Senate that declared support for National Women's History Week.
The movement continued to grow as individual states expanded these week-long celebrations to month-long recognition, so that by 1987 Congress issued a declaration of March as Women's History Month in perpetuity. The celebration continues to be marked by an annual presidential proclamation. For more on the history of women's history month, visit the National Women's History Project website.
Why March?
March was selected for the first women's history celebration in 1978 because of the celebration of March 8th as International Women's Day, which has been celebrated in various countries around the world since the early 1900s. By 1917 the date became firmly fixed on March 8 in recognition of a strike for "bread and peace" carried out by Russian women in the opening days of the Russian Revolution. For more information on International Women's Day visit http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp.
Columbia College and Women's History
Columbia College, founded in 1851 as Christian Female College, has a rich history of providing education for women and of producing women who become forces of change in the world. Christian College's origins lie in the desire on the part of its founders to provide a quality liberal arts education for their daughters, who were denied admission at the University of Missouri where many of the founders were teachers and administrators. The opening of the school in 1851 marked the first institution of higher education for women west of the Mississippi. Christian College continued to provide educational opportunities for young women, and in 1970 extended its mission and opened its doors to men for the first time. Now as Columbia College, the community marks the significance of its own history and the contributions of women around the world to making history happen by hosting a series of events to celebrate Women's History Month.