Each fall the CWG participates in Orientation programs to welcome new students to Dartmouth. Later in the term the CWG presents an array of programs to highlight the various facets of our work on campus specifically supportive of Domestic Violence Awareness Month and National Coming Out Month (both October.)
Throughout the year we offer a range of programs addressing and exploring sexual health and healthy sexuality. The goal of these programs is to resist and counter culturally prevalent attitudes and behaviors that denigrate female sexuality and sexual determination. We also hope to promote frank discussion on campus about sexuality. Silence and taboo surrounding sexuality have negative consequences for all people. They inhibit effective communication and engender myths about sex that can lead to confusion, unwanted pregnancy, disease/infection transmission and abuse. Through playful, interactive workshops, lectures and demonstrations, performances and more, we seek to engage everyone -- straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people -- in healthy and informed thinking about their own sexuality.
The CWG's annual Visionary-in-Residence program involves a wide and diverse collection of campus constituencies. Honorees - in residence 3-5 days - are chosen on the basis of their demonstrated ability to increase understanding of the nature of different and intersecting aspects of individual and cultural identity. They also bring with them experience and a commitment to fostering collaboration among diverse constituents, as well as a distinctive ability to engage a range of communities and enrich interaction among them. Past honorees include author/educator Dorothy Allison, writer/activist Rebecca Walker, Green Party VP candidate and environmental activist Winona LaDuke, and Third Wave activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. For more information about the Visionary program, e-mail CWG@Dartmouth.edu.
 Clothesline Project - Spring 2008 |
Throughout the year, these term-long, campus-wide campaigns are designed to raise awareness about issues of significance to women or related to gender. Topics have included "Gender and Work," "Community and Conflict," and "Dating Violence," and our outreach involves postering, information tables in key locations, banners in the Collis Center, table tents in dining facilities, electronic-based quizzes, "myths of the week," and closing events.
