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Amelia Meman, '15, is the program coordinator in the Women's Center. She has worked in the Women's Center as an intern, a student staff member, a volunteer, a part-time coordinator, and now as a full-time staff member. Throughout this tenure, Amelia has attended every Take Back the Night (and is looking forward to attending many… Continue reading Honoring stories/Consuming tragedy: Covering Take Back The Night as a photographer
Program coordinator Amelia Meman reminisces about her feminist friendships and analyzes how these relationships foster empowerment and powerful networks. This Women’s History Month, the Women’s Center was inspired by feminism’s legacy of collective action. While feminism is very much based in the personal and individual, it is also a movement built through the camaraderie, collective… Continue reading Feminist Friendships
A reflection by Amelia Meman on her feminist mentoring relationship with Assistant Director Megan Tagle Adams. With Megan’s departure from UMBC (today!), I feel the Women’s Center is saying goodbye to a real social justice champion on our campus. Someone who was constantly striving for excellence in our institution. More than this, though, I feel… Continue reading To my feminist mentor, Megan Tagle Adams
This past April was our most powerful yet. In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Women's Center coordinated the annual Take Back the Night event, which 265 UMBC community members attended (click here for a photo round-up). The Clothesline Project reached another 183 people, and 10 new shirts were created by survivors of interpersonal violence.… Continue reading Supporting survivors past April
In recognition of the other month-long celebration that is April's National Poetry Month, Women's Center Special Projects Coordinator Amelia Meman recorded a discussion on writing as a woman with her two best friends. Check out the video below, and join the conversation! Writing as a woman. It's something I think about fairly often, because it brings up… Continue reading Writing as a woman: A conversation
The Women’s Center’s Spring Roundtable series has begun! On February 14th, we hosted the first of our three-part roundtable “Underrepresentation of Women in...” series. This roundtable was on “Women in Politics” and focused on the lack of women in the political sphere and the establishment. For this discussion, our panelists were Political Science professor Lisa… Continue reading Women in Politics Roundtable Round-Up
A reflection written by Women's Center Special Projects Coordinator, Amelia Meman So here we are. Another day in this brave new world. Are you exhausted yet? Emotionally, physically, psychologically? If you’re not--congratulations! That’s really good and you are a sweet glowing angel. If you are, though, you’re not alone and you are also a sweet… Continue reading A Time to Resist + A Time to Take Care
A blog reflection written by Women's Center staff member Kayla Smith. Society tells us that women are too sensitive. We’re crazy emotional creatures who are fragile and people need to tiptoe around us and our sensitive flower petal feelings. Because of this stereotype, I spend a lot of time unpacking my issues with certain comments,… Continue reading Where My Inclusive Dawgs At? — A reflection on American sports culture.
So after the longest run of any woman in the history of the United States Congress, Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland is retiring after this 114th Congress in 2017. And for some reason, I am feeling some sort of way about it. I have been incensed to write this ever since Senator Mikulski’s retirement announcement, not… Continue reading My Role Model, Senator Barbara Mikulski or “Finding the Worth in Your [Almost Always] Problematic Fave*”
When you talk to most college students about shackling incarcerated pregnant people before, after, and while they are labor, most are surprised. Many look at me incredulously and ask, “We still do that?” Yes, we still do that. We still shackle pregnant people for all of their medical appointments, as they give birth, and as… Continue reading “We still do that?”: Shackling Pregnant Prisoners in Maryland
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