Filmmakers Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi collaborated to co-write and co-direct Persepolis, an adaptation of Satrapi’s bestselling autobiographical graphic novel detailing the trials faced by an outspoken Iranian girl who finds her unique attitude and outlook on life repeatedly challenged during the Islamic revolution.
Tomorrow at 4:30pm! Students/Members Lounge, Ground Floor Union House. All welcome.
Hi All,
Apologies for the late notice but, as with many great ideas, this has come up organically and spontaneously! Stitch n Bitch will take a break tomorrow at 10am, and instead the wom*n’s room will be being used for the first WOC meeting. If you are not attending, please make sure to leave the room free at this time for those who are attending. Here’s the message from Fei, one of the organisers:
This week’s free film screening is Iron Jawed Angels: Defiant young activists take the women’s suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote. It focuses on the American women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s. The film received acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film follows political activists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as they use peaceful and effective strategies, tactics, and dialogues to revolutionize the American feminist movement to grant women the right to vote. Starring Anjelica Houston, Frances O’Connor, & Hilary Swank.
Date Thursday 4 October 12
Time 4:30PM
At Students Lounge – Union House
All welcome!
another past melbourne flashmob!
Hey everyone, if you’re interested in the flashmob to help end the stigma surrounding abortion and reproductive choice, tomorrow’s the first practice session! Click here for the facebook event page.
There’ll be another session on Monday the 24th, and here’s the event page for that one!
The final flashmob will be happening on Sat September 30 in Fed Square, with everyone meeting at 10:15.
Get involved!
Hey everyone! Here’s an invite from Reproductive Choice Australia to all students at Melbourne Uni to get involved with a flashmob! We’ll be practicing the moves at uni and you can also practice at home to the video they’ve made. Here’s the details:
Reproductive Choice Australia is throwing a Flashmob, and we want YOU to come. Dance in Melbourne’s CBD in support of women and against abortion shame, silence and stigma! The Flashmob will take place on:
REGISTER NOW to be part of the fun. Dancing is uplifting and fun – the perfect antidote to shame. The Flashmob is a dance everyone can learn – check out our fun instructional video here!
The Melbourne Flashmob is open to EVERYONE! Men are warmly invited to attend and every effort will be made to ensure disability-access. Rehearsal parties will be after work at the University of Melbourne on 18 and 24 September, for those who want to attend (more info on the times and rooms to be posted soon). We’ll supply the Flashmob t-shirts, which you are free to keep!
I WANT TO STAND UP FOR WOMEN. REGISTER ME FOR THE “LET’S END THE STIGMA” FLASHMOB!
x Belle
Hello lovely people,
As part of UMSU’s Enviro Week (all this week!), Stitch n Bitch is joining forces with the Cast-On Charity Group – an UMSU affiliated club that teaches handicraft skills while raising funds for charity. Then, whatever beautiful (or scraggly!) bits of yarn we manage to knit/crochet together will be used to yarn bomb the campus!
Yarn bomb the campus – Stitch n Bitch and Cast On
Wednesday 10:00-11:30, Joe Nap A and BYarn bombing, also called crochet graffiti, is knitting or crocheting in urban spaces to transform every day objects into pieces of art work. Come, learn to knit and then make the campus a more beautiful place!
Come along to learn how!
x Bel
Cupcakes from the stall on Monday!
Well the week is going great, hope you’ve been noticing and getting involved!
Today from 1pm, we will be hosting a live panel-style forum to allow students and women academics to get together and discuss issues that women in academia face.
We invite you to come along, share your stories, and ask questions. It is not all that often that students get a chance to personally find out what their lecturers think about the university system, and their role in it – especially as women. This may be especially relevant if you are a student who is, or who is considering, continuing study past the undergraduate level or even working for a university.
It is being held in Old Geology Theatre 1. See you there!
Bluestockings Week is almost here! Starting on Monday, there will be events all week celebrating women in higher education, and challenging the obstacles that remain. The calendar for the week is below, and you can download a PDF version here.
It’s not too late to get involved, so if you’d like to come along or volunteer, email womyns@union.unimelb.edu.au
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For our first FFFFILMS! screening (tomorrow!) – and as a lead in to Bluestocking Week – we will be screening Mona Lisa Smile, a fictionalised film about women in higher education and the struggles they face. We’ll post more information about that soon! As usual, our FFFFILMS! screenings will be held in the Student’s Lounge (aka the Member’s Lounge) on the ground floor of Union House from 4:30pm. All welcome!
Well, we are all back safe and sound from NOWSA 2012 (the Network Of Women Students Australia conference in Canberra) just in time for the start of semester. We had a great time and learnt a lot! A huge thanks to the ANU collective for organising it.There is more posted to www.nowsa2012.com about what we all got up to.
I’m a bit late posting here about it, and I’ll keep it brief. But in huge news, our collective decided to bid to host the conference at Melbourne Uni in 2013… and we won!
We hope this will mean that many more students from Melbourne Uni, other universities in Melbourne, and all around the country get involved and come to visit next year!
Hello everyone, and hope you’re enjoying your uni break! The website has been on a bit of a hiatus as we’ve all slogged through exams & essays, then got the flu, then kinda gone into holiday mode a bit, but also still working away in the background organising our NOWSA collective. Only a week until we go away to Canberra… can’t wait!
In the meantime, we wanted to let you know about a big Semester 2 event that is in the works. We’d love any interested people to get involved – you don’t need any special experience or knowledge, just some enthusiasm and keenness to meet new people! Run in conjunction with the National Union of Students, it’s called Bluestocking Week:
Bluestocking is a campaign which celebrates women in higher education. The ‘week’ will run from the 6th-17th of August. This year’s Bluestocking Week will focus on the original bluestocking themes of celebrating women’s intellectualism; advancing feminism through education; and rebelling against social constructs that prescribe roles for women’ including those of class, race, sexuality and culture, that restrict women’s freedom of expression and thought – and we will add a modern (or postmodern) twist. Bluestocking Week is coordinated by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Women’s Action Committee (which has representatives from each State) and the National Union of Students Women’s Department. Events are being organised at national, divisional and university level. The project will be launched by Jane Garrett MP and Jeannie Rea, President of the NTEU at La Trobe University, Eagle Bar (event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/196702417124126/)
In terms of what’s happening at Melbourne Uni, that’s where you come in! We’d love you to be part of the organising collective. Please drop us a line at womyns@union.unimelb.edu.au if you’d like to be a part of making the week happen, and getting your thoughts and ideas about women & higher education out there.
Happy uni break everyone!
– bel
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