Cambridge Women's Commission events this fall!
From: Shield, Emily (eshieldcambridgema.gov)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:58:14 -0700 (PDT)

Please just us for exciting events coming up this fall.  If you have any questions or need more information, please reach out.  Share with your networks as well. We look forward to seeing you.

Emily

Cambridge Women’s Commission

 

 


Mapping Feminist Cambridge: Inman Square 1970s-1990s

September 19: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/919-mapping-feminist-cambridge-walking-tour-tickets-71553984895

October 3: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/103-mapping-feminist-cambridge-walking-tour-tickets-71554424209

October 21: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1021-mapping-feminist-cambridge-walking-tour-tickets-72024193301

 

The Women’s Commission has added three more dates of its popular feminist history walking tour highlighting the dynamic history of feminist-owned businesses and organizations that emerged and thrived in Inman Square from the 1970s to the 1990s.  This tour features the enormous contributions women made to the vibrancy of the city and the movement for women’s liberation.  Summer dates filled almost immediately. Please RSVP for your chance to participate.

 

 

 


Claiming Our Seats… A Kitchen Table Dialogue on Women’s Voting Rights

Wednesday, September 25, 6-8:30pm

Cambridge Main Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway (see attached poster)

 

Join us as we discuss the upcoming 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, when women won the right to vote. At this roundtable, panelists will engage us in a reflective dialogue about women’s voting rights across the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

Featuring: Dr. Jennifer Guglielmo, Rev. Irene Monroe, Dr. Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, Andrea Asuaje (Moderator)

 

Sponsored by: Civic Unity Committee, Office of the City Manager, Cambridge Public Library, 22 CityView, Cambridge Women’s Commission, Cambridge Historical Society, Cambridge Historical Commission

 


How is Today’s Domestic Violence Movement Feminist?

Thursday, September 26, 7–8:30pm

City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway

 

Ann Fleck-Henderson, author of Transition House 1976-2017: The Movement and The Mainstream, will discuss Cambridge’s domestic violence agency’s evolution from a feminist collective to today’s more formally structured nonprofit community organization. A recent New Yorker article decried Transition House’s “loss of feminist principles” (August 19, 2019). How does an organization balance loyalty to its fundamental roots with the demands of a changing movement? What is the role of feminism in today’s domestic violence movement?

 

Sponsored by the Cambridge Women’s Commission, a Women&Words! event

 

 


Ask for Jane, film screening and discussion with director, Rachel Carey

Friday, September 27, 5:30pm pizza, 6pm film

MIT Room 6-120, free and open to the public

 

Chicago, 1969... Imagine a world where abortion is punishable by prison, and getting birth control is nearly impossible. As a result, women die every day from taking matters into their own hands.  https://www.askforjane.com/

 

Sponsored by MIT, Women and Gender Studies, co-sponsored by the Cambridge Women’s Commission

 

 


Domestic Violence Vigil

Thursday, October 3, 6pm

Steps of Cambridge City Hall

 

Candlelight vigil for Massachusetts victims of domestic violence in the past year.

 

 


Save the date! An Evening with Professor Corinne Field

Thursday, November 7, 6:30pm

Main Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway

 

Cambridge Public Library and the Cambridge Women’s Commission will celebrate Women’s Suffrage Centennial with Professor Corinne Field. Ms. Field is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, and age in the nineteenth-century United States. More details coming soon!

 

Emily Shield

Cambridge Women’s Commission

www.cambridgewomenscomission.org

51 Inman Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

617.349.4697

Pronouns: she/her/hers

 

The Cambridge Women’s Commission recognizes, supports, and advocates for all who self-identify as women or with womanhood, including transgender, gender fluid, and non-binary persons. We stand with and for all women and girls regardless of immigration status, sexuality, race, ethnicity, ability or religion.

 

 

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