The Women's and Gender Studies Program sponsors various events each semester for students, faculty and staff, and the larger community. We bring nationally-prominent feminist speakers to campus, we host informal gatherings, and we offer field trips to events in other communities.

A current list of programs offered this semester is included below, along with an archive of past events. Note that events are listed in reverse chronological order, so scroll down!

BitchFest: Why Responding to Pop Culture Is Important to Feminism

College of Charleston campus | September 18, 2006, 7:00 p.m. | Avery Center, 125 Bull Street | free and open to the public

Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler are founders of the magazine Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture and of the forthcoming book Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. Bitch is a widely-read young feminist magazine that uses incisive critical thinking and humor to address the sexism in mainstream media, music, and literature. Its edgy title is intentional: Jervis and Zeisler explain that they are reclaiming a word that is used to denigrate and silence outspoken, assertive women. In this lecture, Jervis and Zeisler will share their insights into pop culture from ten years on the front lines as feminist critics.

Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Communication Department, CofC NOW, and the Department of English.

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