Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender

The Brown Center for Students of Color and the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender will give away three gift baskets! Please follow both centers’ accounts, like this post, leave a comment sharing your favorite collaboration or a collaboration you would like to see between the two centers and tag 3 friends! Please enter by Tuesday, May 14th at 12pm!

Raffle Criteria:
You must follow both centers
Must like this post
Must Comment on this Post
Must be a CURRENT Brown Student
At LEAST one tagged friend must follow both centers
Must be able to pick up baskets from the Sarah Doyle Center by May 17th

The Brown Center for Students of Color, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the Office of Institutional Equity & Diversity cordially invite you to The Womxn of Color Reception on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM at the Faculty Club. Join us for an evening of food and fellowship celebrating the lives of wome/y/xn, femmes, trans-feminine, nonbinary and gender non-conforming people of color. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

Note: Our use of the word “womxn” is meant to stress our inclusive approach to gender and gender identity. The “x” asserts that not everyone identifies within the gender binary. It is not meant to intentionally group nonbinary or gender non-conforming identities non-consensually into womxnhood or take away the womanhood of transwomen. It is a term to create synergy and community for those who undergo a similar type of experience as a result of gender identity and/or expression. Although imperfect, we know language is subjective, temporal, and fluid, and hope we can move towards a place where our language meets the needs of vast identities.

RSVP with the link in our bio! Questions? Please email mailto:[email protected] or mailto:[email protected].

The Brown Center for Students of Color, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the Office of Institutional Equity & Diversity cordially invite you to The Womxn of Color Reception on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM at the Faculty Club. We invite wome/y/xn, femmes, trans-feminine, nonbinary and gender non-conforming people of color to gather for an evening of food, fellowship, and a celebration of our collective existence and resilience. Light refreshments will be served.

*Note: Our use of the word “womxn” is meant to stress our inclusive approach to gender and gender identity. The “x” asserts that not everyone identifies within the gender binary. It is not meant to intentionally group nonbinary or gender non-conforming identities non-consensually into womxnhood or take away the womanhood of transwomen. It is a term to create synergy and community for those who undergo a similar type of experience as a result of gender identity and/or expression. Although imperfect, we know language is subjective, temporal, and fluid, and hope we can move towards a place where our language meets the needs of vast identities.

Please RSVP by Friday April 12, 2024 12:00 PM. RSVP link in bio! 💗

The SDC Women’s History Series welcomes Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) for a virtual keynote: “Imagining Disabled Futures Is An Act of Resistance: A Poetic Keynote by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha”. ☁️

Leah is a nonbinary femme autistic disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker, who is the author or co-editor of ten books, including The Future Is Disabled, (with Ejeris DIxon), Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the transformative justice movement, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Tonguebreaker and Dirty River. 🦦

Piepzna-Samarasinha argues that disability justice is core to our creating a liberated future present full of disabled pleasure, skill and freedom. In this keynote, Piepzna-Samarasinha will share learnings, questions, poetry and story from this movement moment. It's radical to dream a disabled future; join us in that dreaming. RSVP using the link in our bio! ❤️

For almost 50 years the right to an abortion was guaranteed by the 1973 Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision. On June 13, 2022, that right suddenly came to an end for millions of people across the country. Join the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, the Pembroke Center and other campus partners on Wednesday, October 19, at 6:30 p.m., for “What Next?: Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Nation,” a virtual conversation with professors Sara Matthiesen (George Washington University), Zakiya Luna (Washington University in St. Louis) and Sarah Williams (Brown). This event is part of the SDC’s new Gender Equity Series. Learn more and register at: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UJGzVgDsSXaRbtpAMEw2rA

Sarah Doyle Center is hiring undergraduate student staff for academic year 2022-23!

Apply by Thursday, June 30th in Workday

The SDC recently posted in Workday our open undergraduate student staff positions at the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender for the 2022-23 academic year. We are hiring for the following positions: 2 Librarian/Archivists, 2 Graphic Design and Publicity Coordinators, and 2 Women's History Month Coordinators.

Deadline to apply is June 30th (with Zoom interviews in July). Detailed job descriptions can be found at this link:

https://tinyurl.com/SDCStudentStaff2223

Mammaum: Decolonizing Conservation, the Land, and Our Beliefs | An Art Exhibition by Olivia Maliszewski

Closing Reception at Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender
Friday, May 27th | 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, 26 Benevolent St.

Olivia's work is bold and unashamed, challenging colonial notions and narratives. Her pieces are derived from a decolonial perspective and are meant to evoke strong reactions in viewers. Her art is informed by extensive research, her ancestors, and the land. This exhibit houses nine pieces that form a larger collective conversation about the connections between colonialism and environmental issues. Surrounding this discussion are art pieces that discuss and break down colonial gender roles and religious teachings that have been forced upon Indigenous peoples for hundreds of years. This exhibition is a culmination of the last four years of her studies and works in tandem with her senior thesis.

Olivia Maliszewski is a senior at Brown University studying Science Technology, and Society with a focus in Biology, Visual Art, and Indigenous Studies. Olivia is a member of the Rappahannock tribe and has used visual art as a means of expression throughout her life. She is an interdisciplinary artist from the Boston Area. During the course of her life and career, she has formed a well-rounded worldview and cultivated an open minded spirit.

Over the years she has had experience creating large scale indoor and outdoor murals, installing her own and others’ artistic work, studying plants from the Devonian Period and working with live bats in the lab as inspiration for her art, learning her tribal language that went extinct in the 1800s, shaping sculptures out of clay, metal and wood, and so much more. Each and every one of her art pieces is informed by these experiences.

Open house and tea at Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender

Friday, May 27th | 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Saturday, May 28th | 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, 26 Benevolent St.
Join us for tea and cookies. While you’re here relax in our cozy lounge, check out our library, and learn about our resources and programs. Alumni involved with the Sarah Doyle Center can pick up a commemorative keychain.

"at the moment of capture" is a collection of cross-disciplinary poems that confronts imperialism’s entanglement in familial histories. This is done by treating photography as a primary metaphor for engaging with Spanish and American imperial memory in the Philippines: a misleading moment of stillness which reverberates beyond both photographic frame and historical time. Five poems reference personal photographs of the poet’s family from 1940 to the present, as well as archival photographs taken from the John Hay Library’s Military and Louis Franklin Snow Collections. These images serve as obstacles which the poems are constructed around, backdrops which they are inscribed into, and scenes of stillness which they pull narrative continuity out from, resulting in a mixed-media poetics whose form is shaped by public and private archives. With the imperial and the familial woven together and broken apart at equal turns, at the moment of capture leaves its viewers with a new map of empires’ infiltration, facilitation, and surrender to familial histories.

From April 15 to May 2, 2022, at the moment of capture is on exhibit at the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender alongside a textile art work and a short video work by the poet.

Audrey is one of the Sarah Doyle Center Librarian/Archivists for this school year concentrating in History and Ethnic Studies (Honors). Raised in the Philippines, Audrey loves local literature that is historically rigorous, technically brave, and delivers clarity in unexpected lights. Apart from taking classes, Audrey volunteers at Gantala Press and writes and edits for the College Hill Independent.

Check out the Sarah Doyle Center Banned Books Collection! Although book banning has occurred throughout history, challenges on books in schools and libraries have surged across the country over the past year. Many books that are currently challenged include themes at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race. We are proud to have these books in our collection. If you'd like to check out one of these titles, please visit our front desk!

Our full library catalog can be accessed here: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/Sarah_Doyle_Center

Pom Pom Mural - "bursting at the seams"
On display at the Sarah Doyle Center Gallery through April 8th
Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Brown ID swipe access or ring bell)

collaborative + collective

over the past few months, we’ve been making pompoms. from hosting pompom study sessions out of our center to staff making pompoms during a front desk shift to developing a “how-to” guide for other centers to host their own pompom-making sessions, pompoms have somehow filled up our center and also traveled beyond our space.

with the work of dozens of hands, our yarn-based mural has been able to come to life. each pompom has its own maker and its own character. together, though, they have become little collective bursts. do you see your pompom? do you see a pompom your friend made? maybe one that you didn’t make, but really love now that you’ve understood its making process?

process + reflection

while we each worked on our pompoms individually or in community and conversation over the span of months, it took a few scattered days to bring it all together on this wall.

we’re proud of how the final piece turned out, but we’re especially proud of the process. we decided on pompoms because they were a simple way for multiple people to collaborate without even fully realizing it. we had planning conversations and mood boards. ’s yarn mural technique was also especially integral to the linework on the mural.

The Sarah Doyle Center Staff invite folks, to hold and play with the pompoms in the basket–very texturally calming. we also invite folks to enjoy the space and reflect. what are you reminded of when you look at it?

-Claritza Maldonado, Curator and Sarah Doyle Center Graduate Student Coordinator

Mural Design Concept by Anya Semizhonova, Sarah Doyle Center Graphic Designer

The Brown Center for Students of Color, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the Office of Institutional Equity & Diversity cordially invite you to The Womxn of Color Reception on Monday, April 11th, 2022 from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM at the Faculty Club. We invite wome/y/xn, femmes, trans-feminine, nonbinary and gender non-conforming people of color to gather for an evening of food, fellowship, and a celebration of our collective existence and resilience. This year's reception borrows the theme from the SDC's Women's History Series 2022 "Unhemmed.” Let us reclaim our agency. Light refreshments will be served.

*Note: Our use of the word “womxn” is meant to stress our inclusive approach to gender and gender identity. The “x” asserts that not everyone identifies within the gender binary. It is not meant to intentionally group nonbinary or gender non-conforming identities non-consensually into womxnhood or take away the womanhood of transwomen. It is a term to create synergy and community for those who undergo a similar type of experience as a result of gender identity and/or expression. Although not perfect, we know language is subjective, temporal, and fluid and hope we can move towards a place where our language meets the needs of vast identities.

Please RSVP by Monday, April 4th, 2022 at the link: https://qrco.de/WOCReception

Many users with disabilities and different access rely on libraries for critical services. As libraries increasingly become the center of culture wars around issues like COVID protocols and book bans, people with disabilities need library spaces more just as they are being undermined. Many libraries lack basic accessibility, even as they are positioned to help people discover free accessible technology, information, and services. How can libraries move beyond accessibility to justice? How can libraries become more accessible in the first place? How can we develop relationships between library and Crip communities to work towards broader justice goals? How can we support library workers with disabilities? Join us for this presentation and Q + A. Masks required, thank you!

Malana Krongelb '19 is a disabled, Black, Jewish, q***r activist librarian. While a student at Brown she founded and curated the nationally recognized Malana Krongelb Zine Collection and co-founded Disability Justice at Brown. She will be graduating from Simmons University School of Library and Information Science this fall.

*CART Interpretation will be provided
*Room is equipped with a hearing loop
*Room is wheelchair accessible

RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSee1v7V21ptDTeQy6RnKozRh52mTW0rxYyXZJplN2_ZGDkguQ/viewform

Co-sponsored by the Disability Justice Student Initiative, Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and Women's History Series

Questions? Please email [email protected]

The censorship of books has long permeated our political and cultural landscape. Books at the intersection of race, sexuality, and gender have been particular targets for censorship at school districts and libraries across the country. In this talk, Dr. Emily Knox, author of Book Banning in 21st Century America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), will discuss the underpinnings of contemporary book bans and will provide recommendations for how to address book censorship in schools and public libraries. Immediately following the lecture will be a Q&A moderated by Dr. Kenvi Phillips, Director of Library Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Brown University Library. This event will be remote captioned.

RSVP here: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oc2aU7vsSeGxtXJyOnpw9Q

Co-sponsored by the Brown University Library, LGBTQ Center, Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy

Stop by the Main Geen to visit the Sarah Doyle Center library on wheels. There will be zines and a selection of books from the SDC’s library collection. Learn more about this valuable feminist resource, sign up for our enewsletter, and pick up a sweet treat!
https://brown.edu/go/SDClibrary

At the nexus of performance, diaspora, and digitality, Dr. Sarah Bruno will talk about her personal research on the Afro-Puerto Rican genre of bomba. Through Black feminist praxis, Dr. Sarah Bruno will share a cartography of Black Puerto Rican femme feeling, while also thinking through the limitations of care and affective abolition. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/drsarahbruno

Examining the Evolution of Women at Brown: Where have we been and where are we going?

Join generations of Brunonian women for an all-alumnae community building event as we explore the evolving role of women at Brown through interactive and dynamic discussion.

Special welcome by President Christina H. Paxson with featured speaker Felicia Salinas-Moniz AM’06 PhD’13, Director of the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender.

Followed by interactive breakout discussions facilitated by Brown alumnae.

Join us for the largest virtual gathering of Brown women in 130 years!

Presented by the Brown Women's Network and co-sponsored by The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender and the Pembroke Center.

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/examining-the-evolution-of-women-at-brown-tickets-266364953747

We're writing to share that poet Paul Tran will be visiting Brown next week on Monday, March 14 to conduct a generative workshop (1-3pm, Salomon 203) in collaboration with artist-in-residence Diana Khoi Nguyen, and to present a reading later in the day (6-7:30pm, Friedman 108). All are welcome to attend.

Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, from Penguin in the US and the UK. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is a Visiting Faculty at Pacific University MFA in Writing and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

This event is brought to you by the Department of American Studies, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women & Gender, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and the Brown Arts Institute.

In reflecting on her position within the academy–as a researcher, scholar, and practitioner–Dr. Sarah Bruno asks, “how can I be the best villain possible?” In this interactive workshop, Bruno invites participants to do the same. By discussing creative embodied practices, methods, digital work, and pedagogical practices, participants will engage in conversations and activities that may inform their own personal research practices. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/drsarahbrunoworkshop

We invite avid crafters and those curious about working with their hands to gather for an afternoon of mindful making and exploration of what it means to cultivate creative wellness and care practices in feminist community, guided in collaboration with CAPS Assistant Director Hercilia Corona. Bring a work in progress or begin a new project with us! Yarn, needles and mini loom materials will be provided. Informal technique instruction will be available. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/mindfulmaking

The Global Brown Center for International Students and the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender invite you to join us for a day of community and celebration centered around the revolutionary lives of international women. Participate in activities, meet new friends, and pick up a dessert “to-go” box. All gender identities are welcome! RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/iwd-sdc-gbc

The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, and the Department of Literary Arts present a virtual poetry reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Natalie Diaz (Gila River Indian Tribe). Immediately following will be a Q&A moderated by Audrey Buhain ‘22 and Aïcha Soukab ‘22.5.
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/DiazPoetryReading

The Auntie Sewing Squad began as a small collective of friends making masks for essential workers at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and grew into a mutual aid network of hundreds of makers sewing masks for BIPOC communities in need across the United States. Their work is chronicled in their new book The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (University of California Press, 2021). In this webinar, Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies, will be in conversation with “overlord” Kristina Wong, and co-editors, Preeti Sharma, Mai-Linh K. Hong, and Chrissy Yee Lau. Register for the public webinar at this link: https://tinyurl.com/WeGoDownSewing. Brown Students may register for an in-person viewing party at this link: https://tinyurl.com/AuntieViewingParty. Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, Asian American Heritage Series, Brown Asian Sisters Empowered, and the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender.

We are excited to kick off the Women's History Series 2022! Pop-in at the Sarah Doyle Center anytime to grab a copy of the Women’s History Series calendar and pick up a bag of gourmet popcorn. We will also have pom pom making supplies available for people to contribute to our WHS collective art project.

Welcome to our new Director of the SDC, Felicia Salinas-Moniz, AMST Ph.D. '13! Click the link for the full announcement: https://createsend.com/t/r-15092648C4D322752540EF23F30FEDED

The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender (SDC) at Brown University is currently searching for an Assistant Director. The mission of the SDC is to engage the campus community through a feminist praxis of activism and academics. The center provides programs, resources, and meeting space for any member of the campus community interested in examining issues around gender, especially as it intersects with other markers of identity. Learn more and apply at the QR code or at https://lnkd.in/ed36gzFD.

Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender updated their information in their About section.

The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender would like to host a graduate parent summer book club! We will provide a range of three children's books exploring gender identity, which you can read with your kids, ages 4 - 8, at your own pace. The books - all chosen from the SDC's collection Stories for Free Children* - will be provided free for participants and can be picked up on campus or shipped domestically. We will host a follow-up Book Club Zoom chat in early August where experiences and questions can be shared and discussed. Please feel free to join even if you are a new or expecting parent and your kids may still be too young for the books.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyazl30Obqh-0SssGElJBtBSwOqrrOJE2Mu0MbSkMXEaESXA/viewform

The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender announces a ☀️summer book club☀️ for first year and sophomore students featuring the celebrated speculative young adult novel, Pet by akwaeke emezi. This short (203 pp.) yet powerful read poetically explores themes of gender and sexuality, truth and justice, and relationships of love and care. Come imagine new worlds and ways of being with us as we embark on a brave and tender adventure with Jam, Redemption, and Pet! Copies are limited, so we ask that those who apply commit to *full* participation, entailing a completion of the novel and participation in a casual group discussion. Student participants will need to pick up their copy on campus. Kindly submit your application of interest at https://tinyurl.com/sdcsummerbookclub by Friday, June 18th.

Welcome back, friends of Sarah Doyle! As we begin a new semester, join us for a friendly virtual gathering to reflect on transitions with Brown alum and Providence-based educator, artist, and healer, Matt Garza '11. Whether you're new to yoga practice or engaged in our past yoga offerings, come learn from their creative wisdom and connect with a caring feminist community. Feel free to bring your lunch and cup of tea too! Two lucky attendees will receive yoga supplies to support their movement journey!
*Kindly RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/sdcgarzalunch to receive a Zoom link for this event.