SWAP NOT SHOP!

Come "shopping" with F.O.R.C.E. at our CLOTHES SWAP!

Tuesday, Oct 4 @ 5:30pm

Rincon Room in the Student Union Memorial Center

Bring the clothes you don’t want, and swap them for new ones!

Clothing may also be purchased.

Additional clothing donated by Buffalo Exchange.

Proceeds to benefit women and children.

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!

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.

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.

WRC Film Series: this Wed!

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

Fall 2011

Women’s Resource Center Film Series

Film Showing: Papers

with post-film discussion hosted by

Wednesday, Sept 21

7pm in Gallagher Theater (Student Union)

free admission

see you there!

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.

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!