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The following information concerning West Virginia University Social and Environmental Justice related activities and events is generally updated at the beginning of each calendar month. Before committing to an activity or event please check for cancellations or changes since they were originally posted here. See Local News for non-CCSJ news, activities, and events organized and/or taking place in the Morgantown area. See Regional News for non-CCSJ news, activities, and events organized and/or taking place outside the Morgantown area.
A series of virtual programs, in collaboration with the Morgantown Chapter of the National Organization for Women, including presentations by storyteller Ilene Evans performing as suffragist Coralie Franklin Cook and Atiba Ellis, Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School on democracy, voting, and race, took place during the Spring 2021 Semester at WVU at the downtown campus library. The Lead Curator was Sally Jane Brown, MA, Coordinator, WVU Libraries. The Lead Designer was Eve Faulkes, and the Online Exhibit Designer was Travis Williamson
You can find the online exhibit and virtual tour here, and Eve Faulkes' panel designs here.
This information is posted courtesy of the WVU Art in the Libraries
For information please go to their website or email cge@mail.wvu.edu.
For information, please contact Bonnie M. Brown, Coordinator of the Native American Studies Program, West Virginia University, PO Box 6284, Morgantown, WV, 26506-6284, NAS.WVU.EDU, @WVU_NASprogram, or call 304-293-4626.
2025 Human Rights Film Series will take place on Wednesday, April 2 and Wednesday, April 9, both from 7:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m.at 4002 Field Hall, Downtown WVU Campus, Open to the Public. Information about the panel that will discuss the April 2 film is here.
April 2 - A Road to Home: "WVU’s LGBTQ+ Center hosts "A Road to Home", an award-winning film that tracks the lives of six houseless LGBTQ+ young people over an 18-month-long period. Their lives reflect the experiences of the estimated 500,000 houseless youth on American streets, 40% of whom are LGBTQ+. For some of these people, being LGBTQ+ is the third strike against them, for they’ve grown up as people of color from poor households. All six youth were rejected by their families. Following them around New York City offers glimpses of how they learned to survive in the streets while struggling to find beds and some sense of purpose and direction for their lives.Information about the panel that will discuss the April 2 film is here.
“In the course of their journeys, four receive aid from the Ali Forney Center, a program devoted solely to houseless LGBTQ+ youth. Founder Carl Siciliano’s struggle to keep the Center’s programs alive mirrors the journeys of the youths themselves. The film shares not only the dangers, fears, and lonely anxiety of houselessness, but also the resulting heart wounds that must be healed. The people in this film are determined that their traumas will not define them for the rest of their lives.”Information about the panel that will discuss the April 2 film is here.
April 9 - Daughter of a Lost Bird: “About the film: “Lost birds” is a term for Native children adopted out of their tribal communities. Beautiful and intimate, the film follows Native adoptee Kendra Mylnechuk Potter on her journey to find her birth mother, April, also a Native adoptee, and return to her Lummi homelands in Washington. With a sensitive yet unflinching lens, director Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) documents the two connecting with relatives and navigating what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in. Along the way, Kendra uncovers generations of emotional and spiritual beauty and pain and comes to the startling realization that she is a living legacy of U.S. assimilationist policy. By sharing a deeply personal experience of inherited cultural trauma, the film opens the door to broader and more complicated conversations about the erasure of Native culture and questions of identity surrounding adoption.
"‘This poignant story provides living proof that history is not only the past, but the present too’."
Award-winning writer and Native children & families advocate Susan Devan Harness (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes) will serve as NAS Author-in-Residence April 7-11, 2025. According to her website, “her interest in transracial adoption in general, and American Indian transracial adoption specifically, extends well beyond the academic.”
Go here to get more information on the WVU Women's Resource Center. Their current activities include: Freebie products (e.g. condoms and tampons), the WVU lactation network, the Silent Witness Exhibit (honoring those murdered by acts of domestic violence, women's rights, and their annual New Women Meet-Up.
Leslie Tower, director of the center, is “Calling Current & Former WVU Students & Employees: Share Your Lactation Experience!
“Have you ever expressed milk while working or studying at WVU? We want to hear from you! By participating, you will help us gather valuable insights about your experiences expressing milk after returning to work or school. This research project is being conducted by Leslie E. Tower, PhD, Professor of Social Work and Cara L. Sedney, MD, MA, FAANS – Chief Wellness Officer for WVU Hospital. Let’s create a campus that supports all nursing parents!
The survey can be accessed here.
The WVU CBC provides educational, social and cultural support for African and African American students, faculty, staff and community members.
For more information about the WVU Center for Black Culture and Research, please go here For a full calendar of WVU Center for Black Culture and Research events go here.
WVU LGBTQ+ Center Campuswide Pride: Welcome Back Mix & Mingle Is Thursday, September 19th: This event will be at the WVU Mountainlair Gold Ballroom from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. “We’re back for another exciting year! Join the LGBTQ+ Center for an evening of connection and community. We’re holding a mix & mingle to bring together members of the LGBTQ+ Community and our allies from all across campus. Enjoy hour d’oeuvres, refreshing drinks, engaging conversation, and enter to win one of three prizes at our raffle. Contact us with any questions at lgbtq@mail.wvu.edu.”
See their website for more information on this and other monthly and weekly activities, and to register for events, or follow them on Facebook.
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