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Norwich Voices for International Women's 24-hour interval will highlight women's triumphs and struggles in virtual spoken-discussion performance
Chey Khoury wants women's voices heard and inequitable notions, especially about forcefulness and success, upended.
"Every female person I accept had the pleasure of working with (have been) some of the strongest humans I've always met," said Khoury, a senior criminal justice major and English small-scale. "As women, we are stronger than stereotypes believe."
Khoury, a civilian educatee, has worked backside the scenes to produce the quaternary-almanac Norwich Voices for International Women's Solar day, scheduled virtually from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday over Zoom. The university and its Pegasus Players theater troupe are presenting the spoken-word event, which prepandemic has run in Mack Hall'southward auditorium. Click here to join the performance.
"I am vibrant with excitement and radiating proudness already. "Nosotros've all worked really hard to get this product right." Surayah Pierce, freshman English language major
Norwich's performance Friday precedes the official International Women'south Solar day, which is March eight (social media hashtag: #IWD2021). The national issue, like Norwich'southward, celebrates women'due south achievements, raises women'southward-equality awareness and pushes for accelerated gender parity. "Choose to challenge" is this year's national theme.
"Nosotros can all choose to challenge and phone call out gender bias and inequality," re-create from the International Women's Mean solar day website said. "Collectively, we tin can all help create an inclusive earth."
Virtual events abound for the global International Women'south Day observance; in the United States, sessions include computer coding chats, pianoforte recitals, bicycle rides and trip the light fantastic toe classes. Myriad discussions are slated, some covering the futurity of work, women's career advancement in wellness care and moving on from the coronavirus pandemic. A few sessions are for men, including i on challenging gender assumptions.
Pegasus Players adviser Jeffry Casey, an assistant professor of theater, and adjunct English instructor Kim Ward are advising Norwich'southward event, which will include readings of stories, poems and speeches on women'due south and women-identified people'south triumphs and struggles campuswide and worldwide.
About a dozen students present and past, faculty and staff will perform; five people have worked on the crew, Casey said.
Equally in the past, the event is pupil-directed; Khoury and Surayah Pierce, a freshman English language major atomic number 82 this year. The virtual format will let alumni join Casey said, including Sonja Jordan '19, an English degree earner from Enterprise, Alabama, who helped develop the starting time two International Women's Day events on campus. Casey said the virtual format volition add another International Women's Day recording to a growing video time capsule of campus life.
"I am vibrant with excitement and radiating proudness already," Pierce wrote in an e-mail. "We've all worked actually hard to get this production right and the cast is filled with amazing and strong women and men."
Ward, who's working on the International Women'south Mean solar day event for the tertiary year, said she hopes to even the gender rest of voices on the Hill, and elevate women's perspectives, especially from the Corps of Cadets.
"It's important in this military/male-dominant school that we become the voices and stories of women-identified people on campus out there," Ward wrote in an electronic mail.
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Casey said women he's taught, worked abreast and befriended take told him being heard is often women'due south biggest struggle. He hopes International Women'south Solar day will step toward correcting that.
"Women non existence heard contributes to all of the other bug," Casey said, alluding to gender inequality, social and economic. "This happens when colleagues don't listen to you, women are ignored. But information technology'southward particularly astute when women are proverb, 'Hey, this environs is hostile to me.'"
Crystal Drown '19, a copy heart specialist and junior graphic designer in Norwich's Office of Communications, volition deliver two readings, 1 on womanhood and one on self-kindness.
"Information technology took me a long time to stand for myself and say, 'No more than, I am worthy,'" Drown, who advises many student committees, including the Civilian Inferior Ring Committee, wrote in an email. "I have value, I am here and take something to add. I deserve respect and to be loved."
Drown said Friday's event will draw power from diversity — no two women walk the same path — and community — a collective button for a ameliorate, more equitable, world.
"Women have made strides over fourth dimension and we are not done," she wrote. "People may say nosotros are equal simply that is far from the truth."
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