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Black Feminism And Me/Maine Webinar, University Of Maine Alumni Association

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Video of the University of Maine Alumni Association's Black Feminism and Me/Maine Webinar.

The conversation was facilitated by Laren Babb who pursued a graduate degree in chemistry from the University of Maine. Around the table will be: Dr. Samaa Abdurraqib, Associate Director, Maine Humanities Council; Dr. Lori Banks, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bates College; Dr. Leslie Hill, Professor Emerita of Politics, Bates College; Amara Ifeji, Director of Youth Engagement and Policy, Maine Environmental Association and National Geographic Young Explorer; and Kosi Ifeji, Bangor High School student and Youth Hub Coordinator, Maine Environmental Education Association.

The event was made possible with …

Diversity And Inclusion_Women's History Month 2021 Poster, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

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Poster for the University of Maine Office for Diversity and Inclusion's Women's History Month 2021 events.

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion Women's History Month Wrap-Up And Welcome Spring! Email, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

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Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and details of events related to Women's History Month.

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion Women's History Month Continues! Email, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

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Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and events for Women's History Month.

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion Happy International Women's Day! Email, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

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Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and wishing University of Maine community members a happy International Women's Day.

Umaine Office For Diversity And Inclusion Happy Women's History Month! Email, University Of Maine Office For Diversity And Inclusion

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Email from the UMaine Office for Diversity and Inclusion with various details of the Office's work and wishing University of Maine community members a happy women's history week.

Kamala Harris Breaks Barriers As First Female Vp, Megan Ashe

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Last week, Americans finally got some answers as to who their new president-elect and vice president-elect would be. With 306 electoral votes, Joe Biden will be the next president and Kamala Harris will be the next vice president when they are inaugurated on Jan. 21, 2021. Kamala Harris is a powerful woman in politics and she will be the first woman in the role of vice president, as well as the first person of South Asian heritage and the first Black person as vice president. This accomplishment has inspired many women, Black people and people of South Asian heritage, and …

Wgs Program Hosts 'Pop-Up' On Political Correctness, Charles Cramer

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For the first time this semester, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies (WGS) program hosted one of their ‘Pop-up Panels.’ The panelist/audience discussions address topics of a divisive and polarizing variety in a format that is open to the student body. The hour-long event, which began at noon on Wednesday in the Memorial Union’s Bangor Room, discussed the concept of ‘political correctness’ and the connotations it often evokes.

When It Comes To Diversity, Umaine Could To Better, Anna Foster

University of Maine Racial Justice Collection

It’s Women’s History Month. The month where we all celebrate the strong women in our society who have helped paved the way to get women to where we are now.In the academic world, it wasn’t until 1840 that the first American woman, Catherine Brewer Benson, graduated with an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan Collegein Georgia. It took another 26 years for a black woman to earn a degree, and over 30 years for the first woman to earn a Ph.D.

When It Comes To Diversity, Umaine Could To Better, Anna Foster

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

It’s Women’s History Month. The month where we all celebrate the strong women in our society who have helped paved the way to get women to where we are now. In the academic world, it wasn’t until 1840 that the first American woman, Catherine Brewer Benson, graduated with an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan College in Georgia. It took another 26 years for a black woman to earn a degree, and over 30 years for the first woman to earn a Ph.D.

Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier

Honors College

This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of University of Maine students attitudes and consumption habits of pornography. It contains a literature review of anti-pornography feminism from the Second Wave, as well as an overview of sex-positive and sex-critical theories of pornography from more recent years. The goal of the thesis is to understand how sex-negative and/or sex-positive ideas have or have not permeated college student’s understanding of pornography. Over 800 students were surveyed about pornography consumption through the Psychology Department’s Fall prescreen. 4 students from the survey, who all happened to be women, were interviewed about their relationships …

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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John Victor Murra: A Mentor To Women, Heather Lechtman, Freda Yancy Wolf De Romero, Patricia Netherly, Ana Marit Lorandi, Victoria Castro, Rolena Adorno, Inge Maria Harman, Silvia Raquel Palomeque

Andean Past

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Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Advocate_No. 38 (Winter-Spring 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 36 (Winter 2004), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 34 (Summer 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

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Salt, Spring 2002, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Spring 2002.

Contents

• 4 Two Eggs, Toast, Homefries Marcy’s Breakfast and Lunch, a Portland landmark. Thea Okonak, Megan Dalrymple
• 16 Large Animal Veterinarian All creatures great and small, but mostly great. A photo essay. Katie Terrill
• 22 The Odd Fellows Theatre In Buckfield, a family theatre that has sold out 29 of 30 performances. Eric Larson, Brea Walker
• 36 Liz Leddy: Portrait of a Boxer A young woman trains at the Portland Boxing Club. A photo essay. Christine Heinz
• 44 The Witch is In Wicca is a faith and freedom. For Cynthia Collins, the freedom is what makes being …

Maine Women's Advocate No. 33 (Winter 2002), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Women's Advocate No. 32 (Summer 2001), Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Salt Omnibus 2001, Salt Institute For Documentary Studies

Salt Magazine Archive

SALT Omnibus 2001.

Contents

• 4 The Song of Objects The art of collecting threads together portraits of four highly individual collectors from Maine.
• 18 Baked Beans in a Pot Almost a million cans of baked beans leave B & M’s Portland plant every week. A photo essay depicts the day-to-day life of the “family” of bean factory workers.
• 26 Bush Piloting in Maine Pilots share their stories of a time when the only means of transportation in northwestern Maine meant navigating by landmarks to fly anything and anyone in and out of the bush.
• 38 Reinventing Eve Two religious leaders …

The Content And Process Of Women’S Decision-Making Viewed Through The Lenses Of Feminine/Feminist Ethics And Roman Catholicism, Nancy Parent Bancroft

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to expand the understanding of ethical decision-making by contributing women’s experiences and thoughts to the issue. Fifty women shared a decision that they had made or were in the process of making having to do with their health or reproductive life. The research method of phenomenology was used with the women in the semi-structured interviews in an attempt to capture the meaning that they gave both to what they paid attention to and to the process that they used in arriving at their decisions. After researchers gained as clear a rendering as possible of …

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 80 (September 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 79 (August 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 78 (July 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 77 (June 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 76 (May 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 75 (April 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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