Join the OSU Coalition for the International Women's Strike for a day-long teach-in to honor International Women’s Day on March 8th! We stand with the Platform of the International Women's Strike, available in full here https://www.womenstrikeus.org/our-platform/, and dedicate ourselves to fighting these same injustices on our own campus.
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Tentative Agenda of Topics:
9:00: A Tea Party Politic for the Left?
9:15: Subversive Movements: Dance and Strategies of Resistance
9:30: Syria's Current Impact on Women
9:45: Connecting local and global in reproductive justice
10:00: Cherokee Women and Removal
10:15: Undocu trans women of color resistance
10:30: Accessibility and the College Classroom: Moving Beyond the Accommodation Statement
10:45: Free Abortion on Demand: Can we do it?
11:00: The History of Borders and Islamophobia
11:15: On Why We Still Need Black Power
11:30: The Bechdel Test: Can Women Speak?
11:45: The Trouble With Empathy
12:00: Black Women Socialists: Taking Steps Toward Liberation
12:15: "No Selves to Defend" - Bresha Meadows and the criminalization of Black Women's Self-Defense
12:30: Promoting Access over Profits at OSU
12:45: International Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era
1:00: Political Asylum Policy
1:15: Presentation of OSU Coalition for IWS Platform
1:30: Sex Class: Or, Voting with Vaginas
1:45: Ending Gender-based Violence in the Agriculture Industry: Boycott Wendy's!
2:15: Shapeshifting: Ain't That What Ya Mama Taught Ya?
2:30: Bread and Roses: Women's Strikes and Challenge to Elite Feminism
2:45: March 8: activism and art of dissent in postsocialism
The International Women’s Day Solidarity Teach-In will be a day-long series of teach-ins on women's rights and work and the current threats to vulnerable populations around the world, including immigrants, refugees, trans men and women, and disabled people. The Solidarity Teach-In will be an "alternative school" for the day, so that students, faculty, and community members can participate in the call for a nation-wide women's strike, while also coming together for a day of learning, political debate, and movement building. We invite staff from across campus and workers from the community to attend, as well as professors and other instructors to bring their classes out to the teach-ins, and for students to come individually as part of this strike. We encourage attendees to wear red, the color of solidarity chosen by the national organizers of the day of action.
In addition to inviting speakers, organizations will be tabling at the event in order to get folks involved in movements on and around campus. We also hope to showcase art in all its forms throughout the day. We believe it is essential that we make connections among our movements and across this campus to effectively fight against the attacks on human rights we see everyday in our country and around the world, especially in the current political moment.
Organizers for the event include a broad coalition of feminist, radical, and activist-oriented student organizations as well as like-minded departments on campus. If you and/or your organization would like to get involved, please contact us through this page. Below is a running list of our current cosponsors:
Community and student organizations include: Femunity, International Socialist Organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, Renew OSU, URGE, Young Democratic Socialists, Young Progressives Demanding Action, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Intersections, DISCO Grad Caucus, Student/Farmworker Alliance of Ohio State
OSU Departments include: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Center for Folklore Studies, and Comparative Studies
If you require interpretation services or other accommodations, please contact us, so we can make this event accessible for all.
