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Lesbian Battering Working Group Memo, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies, Lesian Battering Working Group

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Copy of a memo sent to the Maine Coalition for Family Crisis Services (MCFCS), a Coalition of Battered Women's Projects, from the Lesbian Battering Working Group associated with Spruce Run discussing the need to increase awareness of domestic violence in same-sex relationships, particularly in Lesbian relationships. The Lesbian Battering Working Group seeks to establish an official affiliation with MCFCS and seed money.

Strip Offends Reader, Michael T. Johnson

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

I am writing in regard to recent episodes of the locally written comic strip, "Screwballs," that the Campus prints. The episodes that I am concerned with are the ones depicting the Wilde Stein Club members as evil, neo-Nazi monsters.

Screwballs "Wilde-Stench", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Four-panel comic strip penned by Maine Campus staff member Tom Higgins. Long-description follows: Panel 1. The scene is on a sidewalk in an outdoor setting. Pillowy clouds dot the sky. An academic-looking building is in the background. Walking past "Tank," a muscular, straight, white, cis-gender male with flat-top haircut is on a sidewalk is a line of knee-high, non-gender specific individuals dressed in leotards and tutus, carrying star-topped wands on their shoulders and wearing spiked helmets or Pickelhaube, worn by members of the German military during the second reich. One of the knee-high individuals is turned toward the character "Tank," …

Screwballs Comic: "Toke N' Choke", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A four-panel black and white comic strip drawn and authored by Tom Higgins expressing ethnic, black male stereotypes.

Long description.

Panel one: In the foreground is one of the usual white, men characters. The man has a long, rectangular nose and long, flat-top hair style. A speech bubble over his head says, "Hey man, did you get th' stuff?" He is looking in the direction of a black man wearing a striped Zoot suit and black fedora who has opened a door and is walking into the room, toward the white character. The black character is drawn as if he …

Group Says Time Has Come For Celebration, Mike Laberge

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

For the members of the newly formed Afro American Association, celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday on campus was an idea whose time had come.

Heterosexuals Are Vulnerable To Aids, Robert Zeller

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

This letter is in resposne to two articles printed in the Daily Maine Campus on December 12, 1986.

Screwballs Comic: "Pretty Kitty", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A four-panel black and white comic strip drawn and authored by Tom Higgins expressing sexist gender stereotypes.

Long Description.

Panel one depicts two white, men characters from the mid-chest up as they stand behind a brick wall. In the foreground, a young, white woman character with exaggeratedly large breasts and unrealistically small waist, strides past the two male figures with a purse over one shoulder. The woman is dressed in short-shorts and a tight tube-top that exposes her midriff and décolletage. The woman hair is styled in a short, 1980s punk pompadour.

Behind the wall, the two, college-age men lean …

Marriage Paradox, Jennifer Girr

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Marriage statistics may have left some women thinking the only license they will ever hole is a driver's license. For the past 12 months the airwaves and bookshelves have been innundated with "facts" about women and marriage. Last year, a sociologist named Neil Bennett from Yale, found a college woman who is still single by the time she was 30 would have only a 20-percent chance of ever tying the knot.

Screwballs Comic "Rude Awakening", Tom Higgins

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A four-panel black and white comic strip drawn and authored by Tom Higgins depicting a homophobic athlete. Long Description.

Panel one depicts two figures in bed in a darkened room. In the background there is a shelf lined with trophies that speak to the macho, athletic background of the room's primary male occupant. The athletic male figure is depicted seated in bed, bare chested with a blonde crewcut. He is looking at a sleeping bearded figure next to him in confusion. The athlete's confusion is emphasized by a short series of question marks and an exclamation mark hanging over his …

Naming The Violence : Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering Survey, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies, Joyce Grover

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter from Joyce Grover, Chair of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Lesbian Task Force, requesting members of Spruce Run to respond to a survey about services provided to lesbians experience domestic violence. The document includes a summary of responses from Spruce Run.