UIC’s Gender & Women’s Studies Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary! Join us on Thursday, March 9, 2023, for a daylong celebration featuring two-panel discussions, captivating talks, and hand on art-making.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s Women’s History Month presentation and conversation featuring author and advocate Michelle Duster in conversation with author and social justice communications strategist Essence McDowell.
Halal If You Hear Me is a forthcoming anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans. Join us for an evening of poetry and performance by Muslim artists celebrating intersectional identity and dispelling the notion that there is only one way to be Muslim. This event is co-hosted by the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) and Young Chicago Authors as part of the 2017 Louder Than A Bomb Youth Poetry Festival. JAHMM presents this program in collaboration with the Muslim American Leadership Alliance and the UIC Arab American Cultural Center. Sign-up for the Open Mic starts at 6:30pm. Free. Limited seating available.
A community program to examine histories of end-of-life care and the possibilities for rethinking death in the future.
An event for creative and civic-minded people interested in urban ecology, science illustration, mycology and more!
Join us for our Making the West Side preview website launch and a conversation at Hull-House exploring the ways in which activists and artists creatively engage youth to address historical and contemporary issues of gender justice, patriarchy and safety on Chicago’s west side. Presented in Partnership with UIC Women's Leadership and Resource Center.