The "I'm a Feminist Project" was designed as an educational campaign initiative for women's history month and to demystify the image of feminism. The program invited campus administrators, faculty, and students to answer the prompt, "I'm a feminist because..." Through these responses, videos and posters have been generated to promote awareness of the feminist identity.

Peggy Oki is an artist, surfer, and activist currently living in California. While she was growing up in the 1970s, Peggy was the only female member of the Zephyr Skateboard team, featured in the award-winning 2001 documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys."

Women and Gender Studies is hosting the Southeastern Women's Studies Association conference from Thursday, March 29 through Saturday, March 31, 2012. The conference will bring together scholars, policy makers, artists, and activists to wrestle with ideas and strategies to move forward toward a just world in theory and practice.

University of Cincinnati professor Amy Lind discusses how various political actors have addressed the rights of women in the context of Ecuador’s shift to the Left (2007-present). March 29, 2012, Innovation Hall Room 132 12:00-1:15PM

Angela Hattery, Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies, was invited to speak at the University of Mary Washington as part of the university's Women's History Month programming. Hosted by the university's Women's and Gender Studies program and delivered on March 21, Hattery's lecture focused on the social dynamics of family violence.

Angela Hattery, Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies, is the co-author of the recently published text The Social Dynamics of Family Violence. A major text, Angela was finishing up after she joined the Women and Gender Studies program in her current position last year. The book is co-written with her long-time collaborator Earl Smith, Professor of Sociology and Director of American Ethnic Studies at Wakeforest University.

Judy Richardson and Betty Robinson, former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), delivered the annual Sojourner Truth Lecture on March 1, 2012. Richardson and Robinson discussed their co-edited book, Hands On The Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.

The production, in its 13th consecutive year, is sponsored at Mason by the Office of Student Involvement, Sexual Assault Services and Women and Gender Studies. The entire cast and directors are Mason students.

Professor Keith Clark of the Mason English Department will be giving one of this year's George Mason Vision Series Lectures, entitled "Before Toni Morrison and Alice Walker: The Forgotten Fiction of Ann Petry." The lecture is Monday, February 27, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Jo-Marie Burt, faculty member in the Department of Public and International Affairs and director of the Latin American Studies program, spent much of the last semester in Peru, where she earned an award for her human rights work.