ECC celebrates Women's History Month
Elgin Community College will hold a series of events and activities throughout March during its monthlong celebration of Women's History Month. All events, which are free and open to the public, will be held at ECC's Spartan Drive Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin, unless otherwise noted.
Below is a list of events that will take place during the Women's History Month celebration:
• Love Your Body Day: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in Building B hallway. Create your own T-shirt to reflect your sense of value and beauty as a woman. Wear your T-shirt any day in March to honor Women's History Month.
• Love Your Body Day Zumba: 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in Building B's Jobe Lounge. Love your body as you dance all your cares away with Zumba instructor Surhy Toledano.
• Immigrant Women's Roundtable: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, in Building B's Heritage Room, Room B180. This roundtable gathers women immigrants from ECC and the community to tell their stories about coming to the United States, struggles they faced and hopes that helped them to endure.
• "The Personal is Political: Exploring Feminism & Relationships": 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, in Building B Alumni Room, Room B182. What does a healthy relationship look like? How can feminism and gender equality improve the ways we love one another? Licensed Clinical Social Worker Kate McCormack and ECC history professor Antonio Ramirez will explore these questions about striving for equality in heterosexual, LGBTQ and cross cultural relationships.
• "Transcend: The Accomplishments of Transgender Women": 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, in Building G, Spartan Auditorium. ECC's student organization Students Who Are Not Silent (SWANS) will educate students on the accomplishments of transgender women in the United States.
• Bystander Intervention Training: 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, March 20, in Building C, Room C120. Open to all students who seek knowledge regarding sexual harassment, sexual assault and intimate partner violence. The training will include how to standup for others in difficult situations, where to go for help and prevention strategies.
• African American Subcommittee Luncheon: Queen B Visionary: noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in Building E Dining Room. Empowering women to become visionary leaders. Create your personal vision board. Cost: $5.00 per person, limited seating. Includes lunch and your vision board. Purchase tickets in Student Life, Room B173. Ask for Lily or Yvette.
• "Inspiring Women's Tea": 1:30 to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in Building B Heritage Room, Room B180. Have you been inspired lately by a student or employee at ECC? If so, nominate her as an Inspiring Woman and join them for tea, treats and lively conversation at this exciting event. Email Yvette Argueta at yargueta@elgin.edu to nominate by Tuesday, March 20. Event is open to the students, faculty and staff of Elgin Community College.
• "Vanishing Woman": 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday, April 4, in Building G, Spartan Auditorium. Featuring actress Jennifer Goran as Ellen Craft, a slave who escaped in 1848 by pretending to be a white man, while her husband posed as her slave.
Women's History Month is presented by the Women's History Month Committee; African American Women's Subcommittee; Student Life Department; Global and International Studies Taskforce (GIST); Multicultural and Global Initiatives Committee (MAGIC); and ECC student organizations Women's Empowerment Alliance (WEA) and Students Who Are Not Silent (SWANS).
For more information on the events and activities listed above, call (847) 214-7392.