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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

It's a big week for women and sports at EC! Please join us this Thursday at noon, when six EC students will present their original psychological and sociological research on sports and society. It will be a great warm-up for The Wolves and the women's hockey Final Four.

Sarah Garner '20

"Symbolic Interactionism Theory: Explains the Reasoning Why Athletes Quit Their Sports Teams"

Kate Cota '21

"Cheerleading: a Case Study In the Double Bind"

Rafael Joseph '21, Arael Scott '21, and Savannah Terry '21

"How Internalized Oppression and Bro Culture Perpetuate the Sexual Double Standard on College Campuses"

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Hannah Hammond - Featured Speaker for 2020 Triota Induction: Read her remarks

Elmira College theatre professor Hannah Hammond addressed the Triota inductees with an inspirational talk at the annual Iota Iota Iota induction ceremony on Monday, Feb. 24. 2020. She based her talk on the play she is currently directing, THE WOLVES, because there is so much in this production that relates to women's and gender studies. She has kindly provided the text for us to post here.

HANNAH HAMMOND

I've been working on this little play The Wolves, for the last 8 weeks. It's about a female soccer team. It opens next week, and you should come to see it.
The playwright described each girl only by their team number, position, and one or two other words. Each girl is struggling to figure out who she is and her voice.

Nothing any of us can relate to right?

I'm still figuring it out, we all are really, it's one of the reasons Sarah DeLappe starts The Wolves with the Gertrude Stein quote "We are all the same age on the inside"

One of the things I told my actors when we started rehearsals was that you don't need to try to be someone else. You were cast in these roles because there is a part of you in them. Be who you are and let yourself shine through this character. That's all you have to do and you will find the heart and truth of these girls.

So I'm going to say the same thing to you, and remind myself as well.

All you have to be is yourself. Show up with the truest version of yourself, In everything you do. But maybe more importantly - don't be afraid of who you are, what you think and all the ways you show up in the world.

That negative story loop, that you aren't enough as you are, is just that. A story. You control it. You can choose to listen or not. I dare you to make the scary choice and start to ignore it. That anxiety is only fear and you never have to be afraid of who you are. Because who you are is all you can be and that is beautiful.

Did you know THE WOLVES was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama?
Don't miss this timely play about a girls’ high school soccer team that illuminates with the unmistakable ping of reality the way young selves are formed when innate character clashes with external challenges. March 6-8, Gibson Theatre. Admission is Free! Performances at 8pm, except for the Sunday matinee at 2pm.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Women's Suffrage and Native American Women

EC visual arts major Tsiehente Herne'19 sent us a link to this Washington Post article. Her mother, Wakerakatste Louise McDonald Herne, the bear-clan mother of the Mohawk Nation, compared the experience of Native American women to early female settlers. She said her community has a “whole different memory and experience from those of white women.”

The article continues:

As clan mother, Herne is charged with appointing leaders, naming members and working for the general welfare of her people. She said that despite the residual effects of colonialism, there is a huge reservoir of indigenous research, and indigenous scholars are beginning to craft their own narratives, including those of their ancestors.

“It was our grandmothers who showed white women what freedom and liberty really looked like,” Herne said. “They began to witness for themselves a freedom that they had never seen before.”

Monday, August 26, 2019

"Women's History: What It Is and Why It Matters"

Dr. Myra Glenn

Tuesday, September 17 at 5:30pm

Peterson Chapel, Cowles Hall

jointly sponsored by the Women's March of Elmira and

the Elmira College Women's and Gender Studies ProgramThis talk will explore how women's history has reflected as well as contributed to the struggle for human rights in contemporary America, especially the feminist struggle to empower women. It will focus on the writings of several major scholars to show the impact that women's history has had on the historical profession.