Three Awesome Events this Week! (Sponsored by the Campus Women's Center)

Healthy Relationships Panel (TONIGHT!)

April 14th, 6:00pm-7:30pm, 1111 Humanities

Find out what it looks and feels like to be in a healthy relationship with friends, roommates and significant others! Learn more about where you can receive help from on campus resources such as: Carmen Hotvedt (UHS Violence Prevention), Yolanda Garza (Assistant Dean of Students) and Domestic Abuse Intervention Services.

**Jennifer Baumgardner Lecture**

Thursday, April 16th, 6:30pm in the Ebling Symposium, Microbial Sciences Building (1550 Linden Drive)

-"In her role as author and activist, [Jennifer has] permanently changed the way people think about feminism...and will shape the next 10 years of politics and culture." - Commonwealth Club of California

- Founder of the Rape Awareness Project and producer of "I Was Raped," a documentary designed to highlight the prevalence of rape in our culture and interrupt the silence and shame that surrounds it

- Acclaimed author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future; Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism; Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics; and Abortion and Life

- Investigative journalist for Harpers, The Nation, Glamour, RedBook, Elle, and NPR's All Things Considered, exploring stories such as why younger women appear to be less pro-choice and the fact that "rape kits" medical exams are routinely lost or rendered inadmissible in sexual assault cases

Watch Baumgardner's documentary, "I was Raped" on Monday, April 20th at 7:30pm in Memorial Union Play Circle

**Take Back the Night March and Rally**

Take Back the Night is a broad-based community event that will focus on violence in traditionally marginalized communities. It will include a March to the State Capitol, speakers, the Clothesline Project, a candlelight vigil, and a speak out. For more info, check out: www.madisontbtn.blogspot.com

Agenda:

4:30-5:30pm: Tabling in Library Mall

5:30-5:45pm: Rally in Library Mall

5:45-6:10: March to the Capitol

6:10-6:50: Keynote Speaker, Kabzuag Vaj

(speaking about violence in Hmong Communities, barriers to accessing services, inclusivity in our work)

6:50-7:10: March Back to Library Mall

7:10-7:50: Candlelight Vigil and Speak-Out