Vagina Monologues–Marquette Style

Congratulations to all the MU Vagina Warriors (including our own Dashaway!) on a brilliant performance of the Vagina Monologues! Despite all of MU’s wavering, unreasonable stipulations, and general fuddy-duddiness, these fabulous women were able to put on a great and moving show.
And thanks to Ruby G’s as well for offering their business as a [...]

It’s Here! It’s Here! The Vagina Monologues are Here!

Exciting news: a group of Marquette’s own Vagina Warriors are performing The Vagina Monologues off-campus. The production will raise awareness about sexual violence and, with your help, will also raise some funds for the V-Day Campaign to end sexual violence.
Where: Ruby G’s (address: 2043 W. Wells)
When: Friday May 2, 7-10 p.m.
Suggested donation: $5-10
While it’s [...]

Struggle to gain university support for Gender Resource Center

Just a quick hit to divert people’s attention to the piece in the trib today covering what went down last Thursday when MUSG presented a recommendation calling for the creation of a Gender Resource Center. Long story short, the resolution did not pass. Perhaps it can be agreed that more background information needs [...]

A follow up to “Sex talk with Father Wild”

Unlike my blogging partner, I actually showed up on time to the Father Wild forum (…meaning that I didn’t have an evening graduate class with a sweet professor.  Jealous!). Anyways, as femmemeister stated, a round of us feminists showed up last Tuesday to smash some patriarchy.  Okay, not really, we just asked a couple questions.  The [...]

Sex Talk with Father Wild!

Remember how we told y’all about the Father Wild forum? (If you don’t remember, here’s the post.) Well, seven of us Marquette feminists were in attendance (a pretty good turn-out, if I don’t say so myself!), and we had the opportunity to ask Father Wild several questions.Unfortunately, I showed up rather late, so [...]

Use Your Words This Tuesday

We already know how you will be spending your Wednesday night.  However, this still leaves your Tuesday wide open for some word-warring, right?This Tuesday at the AMU, Fr. Wild will be hosting another student forum.  This will be a chance for us to speak out about what students think is important on Marquette’s campus.  If [...]

Road to the Monologues Part 1: 2006

In anticipation of V-day, we here at The Word Warrior will be running a series of guest posts on the history of the “Vagina Monologues” at Marquette, told by senior and empowerment chair, Caitlin Madden. Here is part one:
The very beginning of the ongoing struggle to bring “Vagina Monologues” to Marquette’s campus isn’t really my story [...]

V-day is fast approaching…

February 14th is right around the corner and you know what that means…ending violence against women! Whoooot!!!!!  So bust out your fancy outfits, find a date (or many), and make plans to attend one of the many V-day performances of the Vagina Monologues hosted on college campuses throughout the nation.  Of course….you may have to drive some distance since [...]

1000 hits!

Hello all,We have reached our first milestone! After two weeks of blogging, we have now reached 1,000 hits, which is terribly exciting.We would like to thank all our readers thus far, and to encourage our new readers to get involved in our discussions of feminism, sexual violence, politics, and Marquette policy. (Please click [...]

Marquette’s Sexual Assault Policy–the Good, the Bad, the Fugly

In a previous post, we mentioned that Marquette’s Sexual Violence policies are insufficient. In the next few weeks, we at The Word Warrior are going to be exploring the policies at other universities to show what Marquette has done right, and most importantly what Marquette can do better.
Unfortunately, Marquette’s Student Conduct policies are not [...]