THIS SUNDAY!! We’ll be holding a joint meeting with BASE (Brown Asian Sisters Empowered) to talk about interracial dating!
This will be a relaxed, friendly, and informal time that we hope will bring about some great discussion and insight!
As always: Sunday at 1pm in the TWC!
Feel free to be bring friends. See you there!
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the 8.9 magnitude Japan earthquake and Pacific Ocean tsunami. Please tag your posts related to these devastating events with #tsunami.
Nancy Gruver: “Girls: Truthtellers and Feminists”
Friday, March 4, 2011
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Lounge
26 Benevolent St. (corner of Brown St. and Benevolent St. across from Keeney)
Nancy Gruver is the founder and CEO of New Moon Girls, a safe social network and magazine for girls 8 and up. She started the magazine in 1992 as a healthy alternative to the typical teen magazine that tells girls how to think, act, and look. In contrast, she pioneered the “share the power method” that gives girls the opportunity to write, create, and choose what ultimately becomes part of the finished product.
Gruver will speak on the power of girls to recognize equality and inequality and to get involved in activism that will change their world. Q & A will follow.
She is also the Board of Directors Chair of the non-profit Mind on the Media and helped start the Turn Beauty Inside Out campaign.
Gruver wrote How to Say It to Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter (2004) and has also been published in Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century, edited by Rory Dicker and Alison Piepmeier (2003). You can also find her work on her blog for parents, Daughters.com.
Event sponsored by Women’s History Month, WSAB, and Department of Modern Culture and Media. Sarah Doyle Women’s Center is handicapped accessible. To ask questions or request assistance or accommodations, please email amanda_kozar@brown.edu or call Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at 401-863-2189.
“The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” follows the title character and friends as she navigates through life, love and awkward situations. Check out the first episode below!
^ From awkwardblackgirl.com
Sunday, February 13th
1 PM, TWC Formal Lounge
Check your email and your Facebook for more details in the next few days! <3
No meeting on Sunday…
Instead, SUPER BOWL SUNDAY PARTY at Harambee Lounge! Come by at 6:30 PM for food, fun, trash talk.. all that good stuff
Contemporary African Literature – ENGL 139 – 3 Creditsand/or Special Topics in Creative Writing – ENGL 318 – 3 Credits *Independent Studies for Graduate and Undergraduate Students Can Be Arranged with Instructor, Prof. Sandy Florian, for a total of 6 credits
The CourseThis course is intended to explore aspects the Ghanaian and other West African Literatures while living for one month on the Atlantic shores of Cape Coast in Ghana. For students of Contemporary African Literature, it offers the unique opportunity to explore the subject through academic study and through personal experience with the environment and its writers. For students of Creative Writing, it offers the rare chance to explore their own writing as it becomes nourished by the foreignness of another country. Undergraduate students may take one course for 3 credits. They may also add a directed independent study by arrangement with instructor. Graduate students may take a directed independent study also by arrangement. Credits are transferable, so students of other colleges and universities are encouraged to participate. Classes will take place at the University of Cape Coast and include lectures, discussions, field trips, workshops, and group presentations. Cultural activities will include visits to the Cape Coast Castle, the West African Historical Museum, the Asafo shrines, the Artist Alliance Gallery, and Kakum National Park, and Hans Cottage Botel, with its famous Crocodile Pond.
Cape CoastCape Coast, Ghana, is a safe seaside city with many cultural and historical attractions, including The Cape Coast Castle, Fort William, Fort Victoria, Kotokuraba Market, the Asafo Shrines, and the Alliance Gallery. The city is located 18 miles south of Kakum National Park, one of the most diverse and best preserved national parks in West Africa. It is also within a ten minute drive to Elmina, another historical town which is home to the Elmina Castle, the oldest castle built along the coast of West Africa. English is the Lingua Franca. The climate is equatorial.
Living AccommodationsStudents and faculty will live in the Sasakawa Chalets in the heart of the University of Cape Coast. Dining will take place in the University Guest Chalet Restaurant.
CostIndividual cost is $5,000 including airfare, room and board, transportation, and excursion fees. Limited funding is available through scholarship for WVU English Department majors.
For More InformationPlease contact Prof. Sandy Florian at Sandy.Florian@mail.wvu.edu or (304) 293-9704.
Liza Molinari of the management consulting firm Bain & Company has reached out to us in hopes of increasing diversity!
“Blacks at Bain (BABs) is an organization of Black professionals at Bain. Membership includes professionals across all levels of Bain’s North American offices. BABs exists to make Bain the best career experience for Black business talent. We support our mission by focusing on three main objectives - recruiting, retention and connectivity. The contributions and professional development support that BABs provides enhances the Bain experience in unique and profound ways.”
“As a leader in the Black community on the Brown campus, we would like your help in spreading the word about our Associate Consultant Intern (ACI) program, a 10-week summer internship for which we are currently recruiting. The internship is for juniors that possess sharp problem-solving skills, solid leadership experience, and a passion for teamwork. ACI’s will have the opportunity to work on Bain case teams and drive client impact”
Application deadline for Brown: Thursday, February 3rd, 2011.
You can find more information about the internship at www.joinbain.com.
Welcome back, ladies!
Our first meeting of the new year will be THIS SUNDAY January 30th. It’s going to be an important one so please try to be there! We’ll be discussing FUTURE LEADERSHIP (… like I said, super important).
See you at 1pm in the TWC on Sunday!!!!!!
Are you a college student looking for a fun and rewarding summer job?
The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) 2011 at the University of Virginia is looking for motivated, creative students who love working with kids. SEP is a world-renowned summer camp for academically gifted 5th-11th graders. Some of the perks of the job include:
So come join us!
For more information and the application link: http://curry.virginia.edu/resource-library/2011-counselor-application
Additional information: http://curry.virginia.edu/community-programs/student-enrichment/sep/summer
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Application deadline: Jan 24, 2010
Please email curry-sep@virginia.edu with any questions.
