CSJ 101 Round-Up: Disability Justice and Access Matters!

A graphic for our first CSJ Disability Justice + Access Matters event, “CSJ 101: Disability Justice at UMBC + Beyond” For more information on disability services at UMBC, including how to get accommodations and reporting issues of inaccessibility, please see our previous post outlining these resources. This October, as we begin to recognize National Disability……

CSJ: Ignite 101 Round-Up!

Couldn’t attend CSJ: Ignite 101? No problem! We have all the information you need. This Round-Up was written by Women’s Center staff member Shrijana Khanal. Critical Social Justice officially kicked off today with CSJ 101: Ignite! The presenters and leaders for this event were the Women’s Center’s very own Amelia Meman and Jess Myers. When……

What You Need to Know about #MeToo and “The Personal is Political”

Get ready for Critical Social Justice: Ignite with our What You Need to Know series. Written by Women’s Center student staff member Hannah Wilcove. On October 15th, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano posted the following message to Twitter: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” These sixteen words……

What you Need to Know About Restorative Practices

Get ready for Critical Social Justice: Ignite with our What You Need to Know series. Written by Kaleigh Mrowka, Assistant Director for Residential Education, and Lauren Mauriello, Assistant Director of Student Conduct. “[Restorative practices] provide a clear blueprint to ensure that on the path to making social justice, we model that justness in our own behavior –……

Critical Social Justice: Rise Photo Recap

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The fifth annual Critical Social Justice explored opportunities for building individual and collective resistance and resilience. Events throughout the week, the theme of Rise, challenged us to think about how we can do better, do more, and persist in doing it when it comes to working towards positive…

Healing My Community

 This reflection by Women’s Center staff member Daniel Willey has been cross-posted from the Women’s Center community blog.  Trigger warning for suicide mention; resources at the bottom of the post My community experienced a tragedy early this October, and the ripples from the impact are still cascading across campus and beyond. I woke up that morning……

Home: Paying Attention to Standing Rock

A reflection written by Women’s Center director, Jess Myers  As Critical Social Justice: Home comes to an end today, I can’t help but to think about what is happening at Standing Rock right now where over 100 police with military equipment are advancing on a resistance camp established by Native American water protectors in the……

Mapping Home: UMBC Campus Maps

When I was little, I used to draw maps of my neighborhood. Once I was done with my neighborhood, I’d move onto creating maps for make believe neighborhoods including everything I thought a community should have – homes, trees, a playground and hospital, a library. When the Critical Social Justice planning team picked the theme……

Looking Back on the Baltimore Uprising

Last October for CSJ: Baltimore 365, Women’s Center student staff members created displays for our Vines, Rhymes, and Headlines discussion/exhibit that explored media coverage and social media engagement surrounding the Baltimore Uprising. One year after the uprising, we’re looking back at some of the images and tweets that captured this important moment in our history. What……

Showing Up for Social Justice, Showing Up for Baltimore

A reflection written by Megan Tagle Adams, Women’s Center Assistant Director. Over the past month since Critical Social Justice: Baltimore 365 and especially in light of recent events, I’ve been thinking a lot about what social justice activism means to the UMBC community. More specifically, I’m thinking about what it means to show up for……