Hood’s Feminist Student Union (FSU) is celebrating women’s history month with multiple events, including a Pergola lighting and their annual reading of “The Vagina Monologues.”
On March 1, facilities staff hung pink lights in the pergola to honor the accomplishments of all women this history month.
“It’s important to acknowledge women and everything we’ve done,” President of FSU Ta’Nayia Gist-Cox said. “To get towards the point where we are, and all we had to do to get equal pay, and access to reproductive care. And what still needs to be done.”
Other events throughout the month included a dance held on March 5, a Kahoot game night centering on women and their accomplishments held on March 8 and a movie night featuring “Legally Blonde.”
On March 30, FSU will also host their annual reading of “The Vagina Monologues,” a series of monologues about the experiences of being a woman, written by Eve Ensler in 1996.
Members of the Hood community are invited to read other monologues to make the event more inclusive to non-binary women or trans women, since the original play is more centered on the cis-female experience.
The event will be at 8 p.m. in the Whitaker commons. Along with the reading of the monologues, there will be painting, music and light refreshments.
The club is also leading a new project, partnering with the Beneficial-Hodson Library. An uncensored series that plans to go beyond a conversation and provide access to menstrual hygiene products, on campus and beyond.
A trial run will be conducted to figure out where the products are most urgently needed. FSU will fund the project until the Student Government Association takes it over.
The club’s overall goal is to create an equal and inclusive environment for both women and men.
FSU is also selling T-shirts this month for $15. An order form is linked on their Instagram account @fsu_hoodcollege.
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