The Women's Center is CLOSED for The Monument Quilt!

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:59:41 -0400

The Women's Center will be CLOSED on April 17th for The Monument Quilt.

If you need to use the lactation room during the day, please email Jess Myers at womenscenter@umbc.edu.

Due to the rain-out during Critical Social Justice week, the Monument Quilt display has been rescheduled to take place during Sexual Assault Awareness Month on Tuesday, April 17th!!

To learn more about Critical Social Justice, visit our website.

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The Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. Written, stitched, and painted onto red fabric, stories of survivors will be displayed on Erickson Lawn at UMBC to to create and demand public space to heal. The quilt resists the popular and narrow narrative of how sexual violence occurs by telling many stories, not one. The quilt builds a new culture where survivors are publicly supported, rather than publicly shamed.

The Women's Center will be hosting a quilt making workshop from 5-6:30pm in the Women's Center. Survivors and secondary survivors are invited to attend this workshop to make a quilt square that will be added to the Monument Quilt.

For more information on the Monument Quilt and Force, visit themonumentquilt.org.

If you would like to volunteer for this event, please fill out this form.