Our Wednesday night panel with the editors of the Feministing blog was a smashing success! Vanessa told us about the ups and downs of feminist blogging; Samhita spoke about intersectionality and carving out a space within the feminist movement for women of color; Miriam challenged feminist stereotypes with her own story of coming out as a genderqueer feminist. And our own Sophia rocked it with her vision of a future feminist world! WSAC learned a lot from these excellent feminists, as did the other **200** people who came!! A big thank you goes out to our cosponsors: UPCC, Queer Women, QSCC, the Women's Center, NARAL Pro-Choice MN, MN CAFE, and the MPIRG Gender and Sexuality Task Force. And check out Vanessa's shout out to WSAC!: http://www.feministing.com/archives/020340.html

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Upcoming Events for WSAC:

• This Friday March 12th in WSAC: Bufandas by Yolanda knitting group. All skill levels welcome. The group will only be meeting every other Friday from now on.
• Saturday, March 20th: Anti-War Protest at 1pm. Gather at 3rd St & Cedar to say “Foreclose the war, not people’s homes!” Sponsored by the Iraq Peace Action Coalition
• Tuesday March 23rd noon-1:30 in WSAC: Join us for a lunchtime Genderheads discussion. The topic will be “Domestic Violence in Queer Contexts.”
• The next Global Women film screening is April 1st at 6pm in the WSAC room. The film is “Finding Dawn,” a description can be found on the Women Make Movies website: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c725.shtml. Cosponsored by WSAC and Amnesty. Also, check out the movies at La Raza, every other Thursday from ours!

March 8, 2010 WSAC Meeting Notes
• Evaluation for Dhrouba bin-Wahad: Black Panther speaker, cosponsored with Women Against Military Madness. About 60 attendees, great speaker, but the event went kinda long.
• Education Rights Rally last Thursday: was awesome! 350-400 attendees, brought together students, faculty and staff! Kira did a great job speaking for WSAC! WSAC will continue to be a part of the Save Our Schools coalition. Check out the mndaily video footage online!
• Highway Courtesans screening: Great movie, only 5 attendees. But we have cut back on our spending for movie snacks, so no great loss. We should discuss making this program into something bigger maybe for the fall, since we have lots of awesome films in our library.
• International Women’s Day was a great tabling success! Thanks to Mia, Aidan, Kira, and Molly for tabling. Next time we should get more volunteers so everyone can have a shorter shift.
• Budget meeting report back: Steps have been taken to ensure that WSAC spends/keeps track of money more efficiently. We will continue to work on this. Anyone who knows an alternate cheaper payroll company to ADP should let us know: email wsac@umn.edu
• FEMINISTING! This Wed at 5pm in Coffman Theater. Volunteers for set up meet in WSAC at 4pm: Betsy, Kira, Sophie, Grace, Andrea. Volunteers to table: Mia and Grace. Take down: Mia, Sophie, Andrea.
• Thurs. 3/11 noon bannering outside McNamara to continue Edu Rights work.
• Bufandas by Yolanda is going back to every other Friday starting this Friday
• 3/20 Anti-War protest 1pm gather at 3rd St & Cedar on the West Bank
• 3/22 4pm Silent But Deadly meeting to discuss Sex Ed for Everyone production
• 3/23 noon-1:30 Genderheads . Subcommittee: Mandi, Mia, Jess, Alice, Grace
• Next Global Women? If we want to keep every other from La Raza, next date is April 1st. “Finding Dawn.” Andrea should contact AISC, Betsy will make the flyer for our next meeting.
• Next Constitution revision meeting? March 11th at 5:30 in WSAC. Check out the forum on our website.
• could people please let Grace know if they can’t make it to office hours or whatever else they’ve signed up for? Email WSAC.
• WSAC to reimburse Jess and Betsy for their registration fee at the alphabet soup conference.
• Take Back the Night is April 23rd. Betsy (with Jess back up) will rep WSAC at planning meetings.

HAVE A FUN FEMINASTY SPRING BREAK!!!