Welcome back to a new semester, Sloss community!
Letter from the Directors:
We are thrilled to be welcoming you back to a new semester on campus. This one is particularly special for us because we’re also celebrating 40 years of the Margaret Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity at Iowa State University.
This fall, as we look back on 40 years of the Sloss Center, we’re highlighting ways in which the Sloss Center has contributed to Iowa State’s campus over the decades and looking forward to ways in which we can continue to build on progress made. We want to recognize the visionary voices of the women who advocated for a women’s center on campus in the late 70s, asking for a space where “women’s issues” would be centered and addressed year-round and not only during women’s history month. To learn more about the founding days of the Sloss Center for Women and Gender Equity, tune in to our first Feminist Friday of the semester on Sep. 10th with Sloss Center director, Dr. Sandra Marcu.
As we continue to build on the legacy of the past four decades, our staff is committed to continue to provide resources, programming, and advocacy to support all women. We are also commited to continue to provide resources, programming, and support that appreciates, acknowledges, and advocates for gender expansive, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, transgender, and nonbinary people and lives and all the intersections of identity that we hold, need, and create space for. We welcome you to join our events, talk to our staff, check out the Sloss House, and get involved with our work.
Our staff is excited to connect with you in person and virtually as we continue to navigate the pandemic and strive for a healthy and joyful semester ahead. Thank you for your support; your involvement with our center is what keeps us thriving, learning, and advocating. In the words of iconic lesbian Black feminist poet Audre Lorde, “without community there is no liberation.”
In community,
Dr. Sandra Marcu (she/her), Director
Andra Castle (they/them), Assistant Director
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