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“Disability Justice & Feminist Practice” is Northwestern’s Women’s Center’s theme for 2021-2022, which will guide its programming for the year. Members of the NU and Evanston communities can engage with this topic by participating in a variety of Women’s Center educational events. The center recently opened public registration for their annual Women’s History Month Symposium,. ....
This year’s Women’s History Symposium emphasized mutual aid in light of the growing need for community support to address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on marginalized communities. The March 9 event, hosted by the Women’s Center, was the capstone to a programming series on mutual aid. When it came to selecting this year’s theme, mutual aid was an easy choice, Women’s Center program coordinator melisa stephen (Weinberg ‘15) said. “A basic definition of mutual aid is people showing up for each other for the common good,” stephen said. “It’s also done in tandem with social movements, so there’s open critique of the systems that are failing us.” ....