Category: Female Empowerment

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Founding Member of Our Bodies, Our Selves To Celebrate 40th Anniversary in Albuquerque

When: November 30, 2011 7:00-8:30pm
Where: Dane Smith Hall Room 125, University of New Mexico Campus
Contact: Giovanna Rossi, 505-620-6030 or Rebecca Vanucci, 215-820-3673

Judy Norsigian, founder and Executive Director of Our Bodies, Ourselves, will talk about the legacy of women’s health. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Judy Norsigian will discuss the new edition of the book as well as the status of women’s health today.

Event is sponsored by:
· Gender Impacts Policy, a project of the Center of SW Culture

· Women Studies Department at the University of New Mexico

· Women’s Resource Center at the University of New Mexico

This event is FREE and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served.
Parking on the University of New Mexico campus is free after 6PM and parking is available near Dane Smith Hall off of Las Lomas Blvd.

Quick Facts:
· There have been over 4 million copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves sold all over the world since the first publication.

· The book covers topics ranging from safer sex, sexual health, gender identity, birth control, activism, the health care system, as well as many more.

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Film Screening: The Business of Being Born

The Feminist Research Institute and the Women’s Resource Center invite you:

Film Screening: The Business of Being Born
Followed by a panel discussion with healthcare professionals
Tuesday, November 8th, 6:30-9:00 pm
Anthropology room 163

Speakers:
Joel Teicher, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics Gynecology atUNM
Julie Gorwoda, CNM MSN, Director of Nurse-Midwifery Education at UNM
Kelly Camden, LM on Albuquerque Birth Network Board of Directors
Marie Meakin, RN, BSN, L&D Nurse, Birthing from Within Instructor
Karen Brown, Doula and Leader of Birth Talk, Los Alamos
Connie Koshewa, LM, CPM, MPH

The Business of Being Born:
Filmmaker Abby Epstein and actress Ricki Lake collaborate to explore how
childbirth is treated in America. Is birth a natural, safe process,
or a medical phenomenon with the potential to go seriously wrong? Many
current points of view are explored in this powerful documentary.

The free film screening will be followed by a panel discussion of six local
childbirth professionals. They will discuss their perspectives, relate the
film to the local community, and answer questions from the audience.

Come join us on Tuesday, November 8th at 6:30 p.m. in the Anthropology
Building room 163. See attached flier for more details. For further
information, please email femresin@unm.edu. This event is presented by the
Feminist Research Institute and The Women’s Resource Center.