The Great Society Transsexualism: The Gender Clinic as Welfare Reform

Event Date & Time: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 from 4:30-6:00PM

Event Location: PAC 100

Presented by: Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University

Event Organizers: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department  Meghan Demanchyk (mdemanchyk@wesleyan.edu)

Event Description: (attendance open to the public)  In the 1960s, a string of university-based gender clinics opened in the US that set the protocols of medical transition still in use today. This talk examines how the clinics were designed mainly to economically rehabilitate a feminized underclass of transsexual women. The economic history of the gender clinic underlines what is actually at stake in today's anti-trans politics: not abstract transgender rights, but a class struggle to transition.

About the Speaker: Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of two books: Histories of the Transgender Child (2018) and A Short History of Trans Misogyny (2024).

WHM Kick-Off

Event Time and Date:  Wednesday, February 26th, 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Event Location/Zoom Information:  Daniel Family Commons (3rd Floor Usdan)

Event Organizers:  Womxn of Color Collective, The Resource Center and the WHM 2025 Committee

Event Description: (attendance open to the public) Join the Womxn of Color Collective, The Resource Center, and the Women’s History Month Committee in kicking off the Women’s History Month celebration at Wesleyan!

All About Adaeze- Play Performance

Event Date & Time: February 28th at 7pm, March 1st at 2pm and 7pm 

Event Location: Russell House 

Event Organizer: Shades

Event Description: (attendance open to the public)  The play follows Adaeze, a Nigerian immigrant who has found her way in America after unfortunate circumstances. Based on the immigration of Nigerians after the Biafran War, this story addresses the complexities of immigration as well as the relationship between a mother and her daughter and the result of the United States and their ignorance of immigration policy. Told through the eyes of Adaeze and her daughter, Ngozi.

Event Name: "One Sings, The Other Doesn't" Film Screening 

Event Time and Date: Saturday, March 1st at 8:00pm ET 

Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100) 

Event Organizers: Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM) 

Event Description: (attendance open to the public) 1977. France. Dir: Agnès Varda. 120 min. (Free). The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Womxn of Color Brunch 

Event Date & Time: Saturday, March 1, from 11AM to 2PM Location: The Women of Color House (115 High Street) 

Event Organizers by: Womxn of Color Collective 

Event Description: (attendance open to students only) The Womxn of Color Brunch creates a comforting space made by womxn of color to share a homemade meal, fostering conversation, connection, and networking. This event strengthens our community while celebrating the contributions and experiences of womxn throughout history.

Henna Booth

Event Time and Date:  March 2nd 1pm-5pm

Event Location/Zoom Information:  Usdan 1st Floor

Event Organizers:  Goundo Fofana

Event Description:  (attendance open to the public)  Henna Booth— get beautiful henna designs!

Medical Racism Awareness Display

Event Date & Time: March 24th - March 28th 

Event Location: Usdan Display Case 

Event Organizers by: The Resource Center

Event Description:  (attendance open to the public) This initiative is to spread awareness about medical racism in the POC women community through the use of art, personal stories and quotes as well as statistics concerning the matter.

Know Your Options - A Workshop for People who Menstruate

Event Date & Time:  Wednesday, March 26 2025 at 5:00 PM

Event Location:  Usdan 108

Event Organizers by:  Wesleyan Period Project & Wesleyan Period Coalition

Event Description:  (attendance open to students only)  Do you want to learn about what period products are out there? The importance of menstrual equity? Pain management options? Join Wes Period Coalition and the Wesleyan Period Project to know your options! Decorate a pouch to store your period projects in and enjoy dinner with one another.

Hunting for Sea Monsters and Fossil Foxes in Victorian England: Mary Anning & Charlotte Murchison

Event Time and Date:  Thursday March 27, 12noon -1:00pm

Event Location/Zoom Information:  Exley, Room 405

Event Organizers:  Raquel Bryant, E&ES Department

Event Description:  (attendance open to the public)  Noon Seminar, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences- Wesleyan, Watery monsters and Women scientists in the 1800s

Choose your Own Adventure: Finding The Birth Control Option That's Right for You

Event Time and Date:  Thursday, March 27 2025 at 4:30 PM

Event Location/Zoom Information:  PAC 003

Event Organizers:  WesWell

Event Description:  (attendance open to students only)  There isn’t 1 method of birth control that’s right for everyone. Each type of birth control has pros and cons. The best method of birth control for you is one that you are comfortable using, and that you can use consistently and correctly. Come get the facts on all the birth control methods — how they get the job done, what they cost, where to get them, and how to find the right one for you. There will be demos available of each birth control method so you can get up close & personal and know all the ins and outs of the method you may want to use.

"Devi" Documentary Film Screening

"Mamma Mia!" Film Screening 

Event Time and Date: Friday, March 28th at 8:00pm ET 

Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100) 

Event Organizers: Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM) 

Event Description: (attendance open to the public) 2008. UK/USA. Dir: Phyllida Lloyd. 108 min. (Free). Donna, an independent hotelier, is preparing for her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile Sophie, the spirited bride, has a plan. She invites three men from her mother's past in hope of meeting her real father.

WHM Open Mic

Event time and date: March 28th 8pm

Event location: Espwesso

Event organizers: Wesleyan Reproductive Advocacy & Legislation and Adolescent Sexual Health Awareness

Event description:  (attendance open to students only) We invite you to join us on March 28th at 8pm in Espwesso for a WHM Open Mic event hosted by ASHA and WRAL, where you can sing, speak, read poetry, or more!

"Girlfriends" Film Screening 

Event Time and Date: Saturday, March 29th at 8:00pm ET 

Event Location/Zoom Information: Goldsmith Family Cinema at the Jeanine Basinger Center for Film Studies (aka CFS100) 

Event Organizers: Wesleyan Film Board and the College of Film and the Moving Image (CFILM) 

Event Description: (attendance open to the public) 1978. USA. Dir: Claudia Weill. 88 min. (Free). A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.