Regional Workshop for Feminist Students, Faculty, Advocates
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reproductive and Sexual Health
Slide show
Thanks to all who participated in the workshop! We have prepared a slide show detailing events and speakers from the workshop. The presentation, in PowerPoint format, can be downloaded at this link (note that the file is 35mb).
Please join us on Friday, 21 January 2011, in Stillwater at the Wes Watkins Center on the campus of Oklahoma State University for a day-long regional workshop on reproductive and sexual health. We are bringing together Oklahoma experts with nationally known panelists and have developed a quick-paced agenda for the day. Our speakers include:
- Andrea Smith, author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
- Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women
- Tracy Weitz, Director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
- Kenyon Farrow, Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice
- Julie Burkhart, Founder and Director of Trust Women PAC
- Jeanne Flavin, author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: Policing Women's Reproduction in America
- Miriam Zoila Perez, Founder of the blog RadicalDoula.com, editor of Feministing.com, and board member of Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
- Paul Ashby, Senior Minister at Fellowship Congregational Church UCC, Tulsa
- Tamya Cox, Program Director and Legislative Counsel, ACLU of Oklahoma
- Martha Skeeters, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice
- Barbara Santee, founder of the first pro-choice group in Oklahoma (1970) and currently a cyber-activist and "professional troublemaker"
- Scott H. Jones
- Carol Mason, Director of Gender and Women’s Studies, Oklahoma State University
The goals of the workshop are to:
- Bring together students who have already shown an interest in issues of reproductive and sexual health in a nonjudgmental atmosphere where they can speak freely, learn more, and feel a sense of community.
- Offer students historical and cultural perspectives that provide evidence-based, factual contexts for current debates in sexuality and reproductive health.
- Introduce students to local and national organizers and scholars who are role models for applying academic ideas to real-life situations.
Registration Fee:
We are requesting that individuals pay a fee of $30 to help cover the cost of refreshments. And we're doing this old school: Please send via snail mail a check made out to "OSU Foundation" with "Gender and Women's Studies" in the memo line to Carol Mason, Gender and Women's Studies, 205 Morrill Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078-4069. However, no student will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Accommodations:
We have no funds for travel scholarships, unfortunately, or for hotel accommodations. Likewise, we cannot at this time offer discounts for area hotels. Information about area chain hotels can be found on this link: http://clgt.okstate.edu/hotels.htm. Information about OSU’s on-campus Atherton Hotel can be found here: http://www.athertonhotelatosu.com/index.html.
Directions and Parking:
- The workshop will take place in the Wes Watkins Center on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Click here for directions: http://wwc.okstate.edu/ieo.aspx?page=105
- Please see this link for a map of campus which shows important workshop locations.
- Please see this link for a parking map of the Wes Watkins Center.
- Please see this link for a map and directions to the Atherton Hotel.
- This document (PDF) contains all three maps for download or printing.
Questions:
Please email
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with any questions or concerns.
Contribute:
If you cannot attend but want to support our efforts in creating this educational forum, please send a check in any amount made out to “OSU Foundation” with “Gender and Women’s Studies” in the memo line to: Carol Mason, 205 Morrill Hall, Stillwater OK 74078-4069.
SCHEDULE (subject to change)
9:00 – 10:00 Coffee and Welcome
10:00 – 11:00 Sex Ed Lessons: Oklahoma students share accounts about what constituted their sex education while growing up in Oklahoma.
11:00 – 12:00 Religious Freedom, Reproductive Health, and Sexuality
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Birthing Rights and the New Eugenics
2:00-3:00 Criminalizing Reproductive and Sexual Health
3:00-4:00 Misconceptions: Students discuss their experiences with crisis pregnancy centers in Oklahoma.
4:00-5:00 Advocacy report
5:00-6:00 Reception
Road Trip to Stillwater!
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