Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Meet the Interns: Erica Goudy

Hello!
My name is Erica Goudy, i'm 19, and i'm a sophomore. I am currently a Psychology major with a minor in French. As for right now, I don't have a clue as to what i'm going to do with my life but i'm sure i'll figure it out eventually. I'm originally from California but I grew up in Arizona. A lot of my native Arizonan friends don't like Arizona, but I personally love it here. I  grew up in Peoria which is kind of close to Phoenix so I spent a lot of my time downtown. I love my family and my friends and I am the type of person who would rather have good quality friends rather than the quantity. I am definitely a music enthusiast! I love concerts but i'm kind of picky with bands so I don't attend many. The last concerts I attended consisted of  Tegan and Sara, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The National, and the Sounds, just to name a few. I hope to go to the Coachella music festival in April with a couple of my friends. I love Tucson because so many awesome bands come and play here!


I Joined F.O.R.C.E. because I felt like it would be a great opportunity to get involved on campus and to be apart of a group of creative, able-bodied women making a difference on campus was also something that attracted me.

I am on the Educational Events committee and the Film Series Committee. I'm really excited to be part of hosting our events and promote what F.O.R.C.E has to offer to our campus!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Meet the Interns: Eva

Hi,
My name is Eva Izhieman and I am currently a senior at the University of Arizona. My major is Anthropology and my focus is Archaeology. I love learning about the past and relating it to the present.

Besides feminism, I have a passion for music. I love going to concerts and listening to new (and old) artists. I also play the flute, piccolo, and tenor sax.

This is the 3rd year that I have been a part of the WRC/FORCE. I am currently one of the student directors and the committee chair for the Educational Programming Committee. I love being a part of FORCE and being involved on campus!

FORCE has helped shape who I am as a person and through my involvement I learn more about women and other marginalized groups and the issues that surround us every day.

I'm excited for this year and hope to see FORCE continue to grow and be an important organization on campus and in our community.

Friday, September 23, 2011




Hello!!!  My name is Yakira, I'm currently a sophomore at The University of Arizona. I'm a Spanish Literature & Business major. I choose to come to the U of A because it was a great place to be and everyone that was here during orientation loved it and couldn't wait to be an Arizona Wildcat. I love sports, meeting new people, and spending time with friends and family.

Why did I join F.O.R.C.E?
There are many misconceptions when it comes to describing feminist groups. I believe that women come together not to bring up radical movements throughout society, but women come together to support, teach, and educate one another. We as college women come together to inform other students about resources, possibility, and potentially. We also come find that excluding opinions or perspectives never leads anyone anywhere, so for us, the women of our future it is important to keep and open mind but yet set forth our principles and what we represent. For me it was important to be a part of a group, but not just any group. It was important to be a part of the group of women leaders that come together and promote a worthy cause that has the ability to advocate change and promote resources for young women around the U of A campus.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

WRC Film Series: this Wed!



F.O.R.C.E. proudly presents the
Fall 2011


Film Showing: Papers


with post-film discussion hosted by


Wednesday, Sept 21
7pm in Gallagher Theater (Student Union)
free admission



see you there!



Monday, September 19, 2011

Meet the Interns: Anastasia Freyermuth

            Hello to the wonderful readers of this blog! My name is Anastasia Freyermuth. For those who may have followed the Women’s Resource Center’s blog in previous semesters, you may notice that I am a returning intern. However, for this coming semester I am returning as a new Co-Director for our newly re-named student branch of the WRC, F.O.R.C.E (Feminist Organized to Resist, Create, and Empower). I am thrilled and honored by this new position and hope to continue the efforts made by both groups to bring attention to gender equity issues within the Tucson community and abroad. My excitement surrounding this new role also stems from the fact that I find it to be a perfect equilibrium of academic study and practice! By this I mean that, being a Gender and Women’s Studies major, I often read several didactic and important forms of scholarly research delving into the multifaceted aspects that make up oppression(s) with little reference of what grassroots work I can do in order to uproot such systemic injustices. Fortunately though, the Women’s Resource Center has offered me such an opportunity, and with my other position as Co-Chair of the Film Series, I hope to attain the necessary skills to fully realize my dream of one day becoming a feminist filmmaker. Nevertheless, the amazing opportunities provided by the WRC/F.O.R.C.E could not be fully realized without an amazing Director and devoted interns. With respect to the former, I am grateful to introduce our new Director, Krista Millay! As some of you may recall, our remarkable Director of the past year and a half, Lori Von Buggenum, went on to achieve greater things over the summer. Thankfully, Krista immediately stepped up to the plate and has provided some fresh insight on how to grow the WRC. Possessing such a great Director only adds to our remarkable new intern team at F.O.R.C.E. Having so many new faces and unique insights has been insurmountably beneficial for the establishment of F.O.R.C.E. My dream then for this semester would be to have F.O.R.C.E. be in the trenches, if you will, battling the numerous forms of oppression affecting both the personal and political; to become a necessary “force” within the most essential form of social justice, activism.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Meet the Interns: Marisa

Hellooooo, I'm Marisa Skelpsa-Muñoz. My last names are Lithuanian and Mexican, and that is my lovely mixture (with a little German there too). I'm nineteen going on twenty, I've lived in Arizona my whole life (mostly in Phoenix) and I just started my junior year here at the U of A. My major is Spanish translation and interpretation and I have a minor in Portuguese. I've always been really jealous of multilingual people, so I'm picking a few languages I like and making it my goal in life to become fluent in them. I love to travel. I've been to Spain, Italy, the Dominican Republic, I just got back from a summer in Guanajuato, Mexico and I plan on going to Brazil to study abroad next summer. Almost everywhere I go, I fall in love with some part of the place and decide I want to stay and live there forever, so right now I really want to be in Mexico. Therefore, I have no idea where I really want to live or what kind of career thing I'll end up wanting to do or just where my life will go in general, but right now it's awesome trying to find out. This is my first semester interning with F.O.R.C.E. and I'm on the educational programming and health and sexuality committees. I'm really excited about all of our events and being a part of this amazing group of awesome feminists. YAY!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Meet the Interns: Wendy


My name is Wendy and this is my third year here at the University of Arizona. I have lived in Tucson my whole life. My major is Family Studies and Human Development. I am in the process of organizing my minor, which will be focused on Human Sexuality. 
I look forward to being one of the two Co-Chairs for the Health and Sexuality committee within the student organization F.O.R.C.E. this semester. Sexual health education and awareness is something that I feel strongly about. Part of what the Health and Sexuality Committee does is give Sexual Education College Style (S.E.C.S.) presentations around campus. I hope to help educate others and myself, and encourage sexually transmitted infection testing and prevention.
I am proud to say that I am an intern for F.O.R.C.E. which is the student organization for the Women's Resource Center at the University of Arizona. They are empowering organizations that advocate for gender equity and social justice, as well as promote health and wellness. Education and knowledge is power, and open discussion of topics such as sexuality is necessary for good physical and mental health. I am thankful for this opportunity and I will strive to be a valuable asset to F.O.R.C.E. and the W.R.C.!


Thursday, September 8, 2011

Meet the Interns: Kelly Ancharski


My goal was to break the monotony of "Hello, my name is," yet my exploration in exciting introductions emerges futile. So here it goes- hello, my name is Kelly Ancharski. I am a freshman, born and raised in Tucson, Arizona (although since then I have traveled beyond the imperil continental United States, mainly to Europe and North America). In the impending years, my life plans have vaguely appeared in the forefront of my mind, an outline that begins with receiving my undergraduate degree at the University of Arizona in political science and French with concentrations in international relations and literature respectively. Ultimately, the Peace Corps and the United Nations are fitting establishments to create and illuminate the struggles of a conflicting world, built on the shoulders of the forgotten. Ties, the formation of connections/understanding, stem from family; delivered into a line of growing half-Irish children, my family is large by comparison- immediately I have two older sisters and a younger brother, but extended, well lets just say the number is exponentially growing. Life, much like the formulaic beginnings of these discussions, is seemingly mundane without a passion, gifts that lift the soul into a euphoria- reading, traveling, and most importantly dancing are the personal breaks in the ordinary. Dance has been a running stream through my life since the age of three. Through the breaks and cramming my toes into pint size wood planks (better know as pointe shoes), dance has remained a breath of air, filling the lungs and heart in tandem. In the literary cannon, books complete the hole of imagination; at the top of my favorites include "Crime and Punishment," "The Road," "As You Like It," "Les Misérables," and "Harry Potter." I have always been fascinated with French culture and the atmosphere instituted in the beauty of transcendentalist thinking (as the French would say- Je vois la vie en rose). With international relationships and globalization so fundamental to the evolving tides, the communication and acceptance (or at least knowledge) between younger generations, a fusion of race, sex, and gender polarity, connecting on the waves of the Internet, is the beginnings of a bolstered universal affiliation.


That is the introduction, but now the importance of feminism; the reality of historical injustice that plagues, not only the minorities or the religiously inclined, but the state of gender, the implications that warp humanities cognitive load, maintained by illusory correlation to produce the connotation that feminism is elusive in thought, as well as practice, with a heavy perception of grating females, defying the proscriptive convention, fabricating the raucous sound, resonating in the crevasse of depravity. The feminist terminology continues to be simply forgotten; the terminology of conviction, pushed aside by the partisan movements of seemingly just principles destined for success. While the inequality, a correlation based on the lack of awareness and action, has visible divisions of insight; the archival turnings of the world illuminate the mass periods of female involvement and a disregarded of recognition, countered with the elegance, a poised exposition, true feminism, pouring from the tips of the alleged foolish, repugnant women. Despite the fallacies, the truth of women, with the additions of gender and sexual equality, continues to scatter the portrayal of Earth’s culture.  

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Meet the Interns: Kemi


My 5 year old brother & I

Hey, my name’s Kemi, I’m a new intern for F.O.R.C.E.  I’m a sophomore, but it’s my first year here at the University of Arizona (I transferred from a school in Ohio). I’m a pre-med student majoring in Gender & Women’s Studies, with a minor in Chemistry. My strong belief in reproductive justice has made me interested in becoming an OB/GYN.

So, why did I join F.O.R.C.E.?
I’m really passionate about women’s issues, and equality. (I think I’m going to have to thank the Spice Girls for instilling the notion of “Girl Power” in me.) As a child of immigrants, I’m especially interested in how women are treated in different cultures, and how feminism has cross-sections with many aspects of society. Despite my major, I still don’t know that much about feminism, so what better way to learn even more about it than to immerse myself in it this semester? I also wanted to get involved in campus one way or another, especially as a new student.

Feminism isn’t the only thing I’m into. I’m obsessed with politics and spent some time working on the 2010 midterm elections (I’m pumped for 2012!). I also am very passionate about immigration reform and the Invisible Children Organization. When I’m not doing anything related to those things, I spend my time reading, knitting, and watching television series on Netflix.