Rachel Reinke
Vanessa Apira ’21 and Kyra Green, assistant dean of admissions and interim director of the Center for Multicultural Life, will be moderating the event.
Also part of Herstory Month is the annual performance of RISE: Untold Stories of Bowdoin Women (available to those with a Bowdoin login). The student group fEMPOWER has organized three showings, on Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6, at 7:00 p.m. EST, and on Sunday, March 7, at 9:00 a.m. EST.
Behind the scenes will be advocates from Through These Doors and Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine HelpRoom, as well as Bowdoin staff in gender violence prevention and education, counseling services, SWAG, and the Rachel Lord Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. These support staff will be available to talk one-on-one with audience members during the RISE screening and for one hour afterward.
While there will be celebratory, funny, and lighthearted moments in RISE, the play features stories of sexual violence and abuse, too. "Because they’re stories from the community we’re currently in, it can be impactful to hear from women who have had traumatic and abusive stories," Reinke said.
Earlier in the semester, RISE's five directors—Adedunmola Adewale ’22, Usira Ali ’22, Brianna Canning ’21, Julia Jennings ’23, and Katie Reid ’23—auditioned a cast remotely for this year's online production. The actors then filmed themselves narrating real stories submitted by students. The directors edited the shorts into the final two-hour performance.
Finally, Reinke said she's pleased that Herstory Month overlaps with Black History Month this year, as both programs are supporting and promoting an art event sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations.
Bowdoin Museum of Art Curatorial Assistant Elizabeth Humphrey ’14 will speak Friday, March 5, at 3 p.m. about the Museum's upcoming show There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art. The exhibition brings together more than fifty works of art to challenge histories of marginalization and highlight Black women in American art history.
"I'm particularly excited about the overlap of Black History Month and Herstory Month," Reinke said, "as we're able to highlight Black women's stories—those that are so often left out of the conversation—and bring a more intersectional perspective to women's experiences overall."
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