Programming

September

• Tim Mousseau, “Mo-Men-Tum: Changing the Landscape on Modern Masculinity”
  Monday, September 9, 7-8:30
  CUB MPR
  A survivor of sexual assault, researcher, and widely published author guides students through fluid conversations concerning the ever-changing idea of masculinity. While discussing sex positivity, sexual violence prevention, and how traditional values and gender tropes influence our perception, students can have critical discussions about the role of masculinity in their communities that create safer, more inclusive spaces for all. A welcoming dialogue where everyone can participate.
  
  
• Fun Home: The Musical
  Sunday, September 15, 2pm
  159 S. Main St. #3 Chambersburg, PA
  Chambersburg Community Theater presents Fun Home: The Musical. Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking graphic novel, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. The play is a Tony-winning, Grammy-nominated, and deeply heart-full work by the graphic artist and cartoonist of “Dykes to Watch Out For.” Alison Bechdel is a native of Lock Haven and Beech Creek, Pa, and co-creator of the Bechdel-Wallace test.

October

• Tulip Ceremony (DVAM)
  Wednesday, October 2, 12-1p
  Commemorative Garden (Lackhove/Wright)
  A Shippensburg University annual tulip garden commemoration of domestic and intimate partner violence, resources, and prevention. What we plant now can bloom in time: witness, learn to act, and honor the work to end intimate partner violence. Featuring speakers from the Criminal Justice department and local services center partners, including DVSCP and Randi’s House. This ceremony will launch Shippensburg’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month (#DVAM) programming.
  
  
• Clothesline Project Exhibit (DVAM)
  October 5-11
  CUB Great Hall Railing
  The Domestic Violence Clothesline Project is a visual marker of domestic violence victims established in 1990 to bring awareness to gender-based violence. The exhibit displays T-shirts marked with words of insight and commemoration of victims/survivors, and it invites us to engage with the pain of harm and the hope for healing from and ending it. The Clothesline Project  “airs the dirty laundry” of domestic violence in October: intimate partner violence isn’t a private matter, it’s a public concern.
  
  
• Safer Sex Gab (and sex toy raffle)
  Wednesday, October 9, 5-6:30
  PAGE Center, CUB232
  Plain talk about good practice and safer sex for everyone who’s interested. Find out stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know. Kahoots quizzes, prizes, sex toy raffle. Talk, don't talk, no pressure.
  
  
• Love Your Body Day
  Wednesday, October 16, 4-6p
  CUB MPR
  Celebration through play, creativity, and idea-sharing of the variety of bodies we live in. Love Your Body Day is a tabling and interactive event celebrating that all bodies are capable and beautiful across gender, race, dis/ability, ethnicity, nationality, size, and our many other differences. Interactive stations with Ship student chapters (past participants included National Council of Negro Women and Asian American Pacific Islander Organization), meditation or yoga, vision boards by a local empath and spiritualist, women’s men’s and genderqueer body love, and more. Including performances, demonstrations, and film screening. Come as you are. Chocoholic snack station. Free affirmations.
  
  
• DVAM Survivors Panel: Help and Healing
  Wednesday, October 23, 5-7p
  Old Main Chapel
  Intimate partner violence is a real and pervasive concern on- and off-campus. Many of us, whether we know it or not, know and care about someone who has been directly harmed. Join this panel of survivors and helpers to better understand first-hand experiences of pain, where to find help, and how healing is possible. Help Ship to become a better-informed and more-engaged community of care and prevention. Remarks and Q&A with a panel featuring Dr. Melissa Ricketts, Dr. Megan Luft, and empowerment counseling partners, including DVSCP and Randi’s House.
  
  
• DVAM Safety Planning Workshop
  Wednesday, October 30, 5-7p
  Orndorff Theater
  An engaging and interactive learning opportunity to recognize controlling behavior and support someone in an abusive relationship. Learn what help is wanted and needed. Become part of a better-informed and more-engaged community of care and prevention. All levels of knowledge are welcome.
  
  

• The Silhouette Project
  Throughout the month of October
  The Silhouette Project is installed at nine sites across campus and includes a person and their story in both text and audio file. Each site includes information about the dynamics of domestic violence and intimate partner violence, and resources for support and advocacy. Visit these locations:

  1. Department of Criminal Justice, Shippen 3d floor

  2. Department of Social Work and Gerontology, Shippen 3d floor

  3. Women’s Studies Minor, Horton 1st floor

  4. Department of Psychology, Wright Hall 1st floor

  5. Shippensburg University Police Department

  6. Ceddia Union Building (CUB) Information Desk

  7. PAGE Center, CUB top floor

  8. Inclusion, Belonging, Social Equity, Old Main 200

  9. Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Office of AOD Director, CUB 221

November

• Trans Awareness Week
  November 13-19
  Events and activities this week TBD to bring awareness and affirmation to trans, nonbinary, and other genderqueer experiences.
  
  
• LGBTQ 101: Cultural Awareness Gab
  Wednesday, November 13, 5-6:30
  PAGE Center, CUB232
  Crash course in basic language and good practice to understand and support LGBTQ friends and family. Find out stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know. Talk, don't talk, no pressure.
  
  
• Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Event (TDOR)
  Wednesday, November 20, 5-7p
  CUB McFeeley’s
  The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) memorial event honors lives and highlights needs connected to anti-trans violence. Hundreds of trans family and neighbors are murdered each year globally; young adults and our trans sisters of color are most vulnerable. TDOR marks the end of Transgender Week of Visibility with a memorial service, celebration of life, and reading the names to grieve violence against and celebrate achievements of our trans communities. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate.
  
  
• Queersgiving
  Friday, November 22, 11a-1p
  PAGE Center, CUB232
  The PAGE Center invites students and campus community to gather for a chosen-family, queer-affirming meal and hangout. Get support before heading home, if needed, or just chill and goof with food and good company. No such thing as too cool or too dorky here.

December

• World AIDS Day
  Sunday, December 1, 12-1p
  World AIDS Day honors lives and highlights needs connected to the ongoing AIDS health pandemic. Activities TBD.
  
  
• Lavender Graduation
  Thursday, December 12, 4-6p
  CUB MPR, Airport Lounge
  Lavender Graduation is a celebration of LGBTQ and supportive ally graduates. All graduating Shippensburg University students, undergraduate and graduate, are welcome to participate and be celebrated by friends and family.