January 19 | WGSS Adsdvisory Board Meeting | 12:45-1:45pm | Wilson 4033

January 22 | Virginia Post-Dobbs: panel discussion | 3:00-4:15pm | Keezell G008

Learn about the future of reproductive health in Virginia from a panel of experts: Kate Hoeting (Catholics for Choice), Steph Nash (Blue Ridge Abortion Fund), and Jamie Lockhart (Virginia Planned Parenthood Advocates)

January 30 | girls + eggs Curator Talk, Dr. Sonia Wilson | 5:30pm | Duke Gallery

Join the Duke Hall Gallery of Fine Art in spring 2024 for a group exhibition of drawings, paintings, photographs, and objects by European and US artists working in solidarity and fury in response to parallel attacks on reproductive rights and sexual citizenship. First presented at C U at SADKA in Krakow, Poland in June 2022 and traveling to The Art Gallery of the College of Staten Island, girls + eggs makes its final stop at JMU’s Duke Gallery of Fine Art. The exhibit runs from January 30-March 8.

The exhibition uses humor and beauty to delight and challenge viewers to share our outrage. Women, men, transgender, non-binary, queer, lesbian, cis-gender, mothers, fathers, child-free, dog lovers, and feminists, the exhibition presents a world of individuals, characters, thoughts, and fragments from those repressed by and resisting the return to old world patriarchal norms.

February 13 | Valentine-Zine Workshop | 6:00-7:30pm | Keezell 310

Learn about the history and construction of FEMINIST “zines.” We will craft Valentine’s Day zines in honor of our desires for social justice.

March 8 | International Women's Day

March 9 | International Women's Day March | 10:00am | Downtown Harrisonburg

March 12 | Equal Pay Day

March 21 | Film Screeing All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | 5:30-7:30pm | Harrison 1261

Film screening followed by a discussion with David Velasco

March 25 | Film Screening Queer Futures (shorts) | 3:00-4:15pm | HBS 1090

April 4 | Ecofeminism: Better Living Through Biomomicry, Dr. Alison Bodkin (SCOM) & Dr. Kristen Keley (JUST) | Aboretum/Lawn

April 26 | Triota/WGSS Graduation celebration