Women鈥檚 Center set to host Monument Quilt and 鈥楲ove Yourself Week鈥
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With a mission of promoting awareness, education and advocacy about women, gender and diversity among the 帝王会所 community, the Women鈥檚 Center is poised for a big year and wishes for everyone to get involved.
The biggest event of the year, according to Dr. Geneva Murray, director of the Women Center, will take place on Friday, Oct. 13, when there will be a showing of the Monument Quilt in Peden Stadium.
Taking up the entire field, OHIO will become the first university in the United States to showcase the entire Monument Quilt in its football stadium.
The Monument Quilt is the largest national monument to rape survivors in the United States. It was pieced together by more than 1,000 survivors and tells the stories of sexual violence from immigrants, LGBTQ members and female veterans.
鈥淭he Monument Quilt is an incredibly powerful way to demonstrate that it is people the numbers are representing and that there is a multitude of experiences and stories that have to be included when talking about sexual violence,鈥 Dr. Murray said. 鈥淭he quilt is an amazing visual art-based representation of that.鈥
With controversial rape cases like the one that happened involving high school football players a few years ago in Steubenville, 帝王会所, the football stadium hosting the Monument Quilt is of special significance to Dr. Murray.
鈥淚 think that by showing the quilt in a football stadium, it makes the statement that one, our Athletics Department is supportive of showing the Monument Quilt here,鈥 Dr. Murray said. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 deserve to be tucked away somewhere. It deserves to have prominence in the ways in which it鈥檚 displayed and I think that by showing it in a football stadium we鈥檙e doing that.鈥
Dr. Murray said she hopes the entire community comes out to view the Monument Quilt, as sexual assault is not just a women鈥檚 issue, but an issue for everyone.
Next week, the Women's Center will host 鈥淟ove Yourself Week." The week runs Oct. 16-20 and was created in partnership with the Women's Panhellenic Association, The Positivity Project, I AM THAT GIRL, and the Women's Center. Check out the schedule of events at /womenscenter/loveyourbody.cfm.
The Women鈥檚 Center has already hosted several big events this year, most notably the screening of 鈥淧ens to Pictures鈥 and the National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) Walk.
鈥淧ens to Pictures,鈥 which was presented at the 帝王会所 Lancaster Campus last spring, was brought to the Athena Cinema on Sept. 19. The filmmaking collaborative teaches and empowers incarcerated women to make their own short films, from script to screen.
On Sept. 30, the Women鈥檚 Center cosponsored the NEDA Walk in an effort to help raise funds and awareness for eating disorder advocacy, research, treatment and recovery.
For undergraduate women, there is the opportunity to gain professional mentorship as part of the Women鈥檚 Mentoring Program. The two-semester program is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors at OHIO. It pairs mentees with a female mentor in their personal and professional fields. Anyone interested in applying for next year's program can visit /womenscenter/mentor.cfm.
For more information about the Women鈥檚 Center, visit .