Simmons College

Hosted by United Way of Mass Bay and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons. Join us for this free conference intended to help women and girls of all ages increase their financial skills and build a more secure future for themselves and their families. Workshop topics include asset building, money management, credit and philanthropy.

FREE! and open to the public. Advance Registration Required. To register, or for more information, visit www.supportunitedway.org/youth/mdm

Sponsored by CITI

Hosted by the Center for New Words and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons. Queer and Catholic examines the culture of how being raised catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial catholic nature or even our flight from and continued struggle with the 'the Church of Rome.' Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Examining the culture of Catholicism, rather than the dogma or letter of it, these essays and short stories do not seek to address whether or not queers and the Catholic Church can reconcile or how and why the church should change, but instead explore the impact that growing up Catholic and queer has on us as individuals, writers, and political agents.

Join editor Amie M. Evans, and contributors: Austin J. Austin, Susan McDonough-Hintz, Mallory Hanora, Vince Sgambati, and Emanuel Xavier as they read from their contributions to the anthology with special guest Scott Pomfret.

Free and open to the public.

Hosted by the Center for New Words and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we often cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults—and the lessons to be learned along the way. Don't miss her! Griest will be discussing Mexican Enough as well as her experiences traveling alone as a woman!

Hosted by Boston Centers for Youth and Families and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons.

Hosted by the Boston Asian American Film Festival and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons.

A summit for teens preventing dating abuse and sexual assault through anti-violence education. This event is designed to provide teens who want to speak out against dating violence and sexual assault in their schools, communities, and social groups with professional training and peer networking.

The event is for teens ages 14-18 and is FREE! and open to the public. Advance registration required as space is limited. REACH Beyond Domestic Violence is sponsoring PAVE 2008, the fifth annual peer leadership summit presented by Betsy's Friends Peer Education Program and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons.

Hosted by the Center for New Words and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons. Join us as we welcome legendary feminist and activist, Jean Kilbourne with her co-author, Diane Levin, as they discuss their new book, So Sexy So Soon! Thong panties, padded bras, and risqué Halloween costumes for young girls. T-shirts that boast "Chick Magnet" for toddler boys. Sexy content on almost every television channel, as well as in books, movies, video games, and even cartoons. Hot young female pop stars wearing provocative clothing and dancing suggestively while singing songs with sexual and sometimes violent lyrics. These products are marketed aggressively to our children; these stars are held up for our young daughters to emulate-and for our sons to see as objects of desire.

Popular culture and technology inundate our children with an onslaught of mixed messages at earlier ages than ever before. Corporations capitalize on this disturbing trend, and without the emotional sophistication to understand what they are doing and seeing, kids are getting into increasing trouble emotionally and socially; some may even to engage in precocious sexual behavior. Parents are left shaking their heads, wondering: How did this happen? What can we do?

Free and open to the public.