Programming
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The Center for PAGE has a number of events and activities planned during the fall term to educate and empower students about gender in/equity, healthy relationships consent and culture change, and LGBTQ experience. Below is the Fall calendar with detail and brief summaries of our activities.
PAGE Center Fall 2025
August and September
STD Rapid Testing Pop-Up
Monday, August 25, noon-2p
Center for PAGE, CUB 232
Information, resources, and rapid testing for STDs. Community partners GLO and Keystone Health on site for your unique questions about wellness and best practice.
Bonny Shade Speaks, “But What Can I Do? Ending campus sexual and domestic violence”
Wednesday, September 24, 6-7:30p Open to all
Thursday, September 25, 5-6:30p Multicultural Student Affairs with Robbie Miller
Thursday, September 25, 7-8:30p Athletics
Memorial Auditorium
With 1 in 5 college-age women and nearly 1 in 13 college-age men experiencing sexual assault, this isn’t a distant issue – it’s real, it’s happening on campuses, in dorms, at parties, on teams, and within friend groups. This keynote cuts through the noise with an honest, unfiltered conversation about prevention, consent, intervention, and how to show up for each other. This isn’t a talk meant to keep you comfortable – it’s meant to make you better. Expect a powerful mix of truth, vulnerability, humor, and hope. You’re not just here to get a degree – you’re here to lead. Let’s talk about how to change the culture – and change the world.
Learning Outcomes
- Tools, habits, activities, and group norms to generate productive conversations about consent and peer engagement within student groups and organizations.
- Challenging and reframing outdated cultural norms and behaviors that interfere with consent and peer engagement.
October
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM), and the Center for PAGE is partnering with campus and community to raise awareness and action, support survivors, and honor those who are targeted.
Tulip Ceremony (DVAM)
Wednesday, October 1, 12-1p
Commemorative Garden (Lackhove/Wright)
What we plant now can bloom in time: witness, learn to act, and honor the work to end intimate partner violence. This annual ceremony to honor victims of domestic and intimate partner violence, and to raise awareness about the dynamics of power- and gender-based violence. Center for PAGE partners with the Criminal Justice department and local services center partners, including DVSCP and Randi’s House.
Clothesline Project (DVAM)
October 3-10
CUB Great Hall Railing
We’re “airing the dirty laundry” of domestic violence, because intimate partner violence isn’t a private matter, it’s a public concern. The Clothesline Project was established in 1990 to bring awareness to gender-based violence by visually marking and giving voice to its victims. The clothesline displays T-shirts marked with words of insight and commemoration of victims/survivors; it invites us to engage with the harm and with the hope for healing from and ending domestic violence.
DVAM It’s On Us, Ship. Let’s do Something! Workshop
Monday, October 6, 5-6:30p
CUB 119
No one can do everything, but we all can do something. An engaging and interactive learning opportunity to recognize and interrupt controlling behavior and support those being harmed. Learn what help is wanted and needed and become part of a better-informed and more-engaged community of care and prevention. All levels of knowledge are welcome. This event is developing and student-led.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn and practice the Four Ds of bystander engagement
- Recognize warning signs and danger indicators in abusive relationships
- Identify resources and warm handoffs for those in or leaving abuse
Love Your Body Day
Monday, October 13, 4-6p
CUB MPR
In a world that often promotes unrealistic and narrow beauty standards, the concept of body positivity has emerged as a powerful movement promoting self-love and acceptance. Come play, create, and engage with interactive stations about the variety of bodies we live in. This event celebrates that all bodies are capable and beautiful across gender, race, dis/ability, ethnicity, nationality, size, and our many other differences. Come as you are. Chocoholic snack station. Free affirmations.
Safer Sex Gab (LEGO and Plushies raffle)
Thursday, October 23, 5-6:30
CUB 119
Plain talk about good practice and safer sex for everyone who’s interested. Find out stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know. Quizzes, prizes, raffle. Talk, don't talk, no pressure.
DVAM What Can I do? Panel Discussion
TENTATIVE/SAVE THE DATE
Monday, October 27, 5-7p
Old Main Chapel
No one can do everything, but we all can do something to end intimate partner violence on campus and in our communities. Join this panel of students and faculty mentors, survivors, and community partners to learn of and tap into prevention activities. Help Ship to create and maintain a culture where domestic and partner violence is not accepted or excused. Details are developing and student-led; contact page@ship.edu to get involved.
November and December
The PAGE Center has in November and early December several opportunities to celebrate with and learn more about the lives and experiences of our LGBTQ friends and classmates. Please if you will find ways to encourage students to attend and participate, as appropriate. All are welcome. Contact page@ship.edu with questions or interest.
LGBTQ 101: Cultural Experience Gab
Thursday, November 6, 5-6:30
CUB 119
Pain talk about basic language and good practice for better understanding and being decent with LGBTQ friends and family, for those who want it. Bring your questions for the question box. Find out stuff you didn’t know you didn’t know. Talk, don't talk, no pressure.
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR)
Thursday, November 20, 6-8p
Stewart Hall
This annual commemoration honors the lives of trans friends and family, and it highlights the need to combat anti-trans violence. Hundreds of trans folks are murdered each year globally; young adults and our trans sisters of color are targeted most. TDOR provides a chance to gather, memorialize loss, celebrate life, and read the names for 2025. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate.
Queersgiving
Friday, November 21, 11a-1p
Center for PAGE, CUB 232
Looking for your people? Need to be in a safer spot before the break? Come share a queer-affirming meal and hang out with friends and chosen-family. Get support, if needed, for whatever. Help create an environment to support, encourage, and celebrate one another. Or just come eat.
World AIDS Day
Sunday, December 1
Details are TBD and student-led. On and around World AIDS Day, the Center for PAGE will have information and activities to remember those who died, honor those who labored to end the pandemic and care for the folks affected, and highlight the needs connected to the ongoing AIDS health pandemic.
Lavender Celebration
Thursday, December 11, 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.