Activist and writer Robyn Ochs will highlight several events celebrating Women’s Week at NDSU. Events are scheduled throughout the week of Monday, March 2, through Friday, March 6.
Ochs is slated to present “Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality” on Tuesday, March 3, at 6:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Prairie Rose Room.
The interactive program explores different experiences with identity, the interplay between gender and sexuality and the complexities of attraction.
Ochs is an educator, speaker, award-winning activist and editor of “Bi Women Quarterly.” She also was editor of the anthology “Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals around the World” and the anthology “RECOGNIZE: The Voices of Bisexual Men.”
Ochs’s writing has been published in several bi, women’s studies, multicultural and LGBT anthologies. She has taught university courses in gender and sexuality studies.
Women’s Week 2015 “Bending the Binary” brings attention to the gender binary, a false dichotomy where men are supposed to be masculine and women feminine. This dichotomy forces girls and boys into gendered representations of who they feel they are supposed to be instead of who they are.
Women’s Week 2015 encourages individuals to see gendered binaries in a new light, offering a greater understanding of how they create a deep gender division in our society.
Faculty, staff or students interested in joining a smaller discussion session with Ochs should email regina.ranney@ndsu.edu.
Information about additional events can be found at www.ndsu.edu/edcenter/programming/.
Women’s Week 2015 is sponsored by the Equity and Diversity Center and Women and Gender Studies Program, with support from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: College of Engineering; College of Human Development and Education; College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Allied Sciences; College of Science and Mathematics; vice president for Agricultural Affairs, Office of the Provost, vice president for Academic Affairs, vice president for Equity, Diversity and Global Outreach, vice president for Finance and Administration, vice president for Research and Creative Activity, vice president for Student Affairs, University Relations and the NDSU Cooperative Sponsorship Grant.
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