Alice Drum Women’s Center

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The Women’s Center offers an inclusive space for all on campus. The Center features a F&Minist library, gender justice resources, free safer sex materials, menstruation products, and a student study space. The Women’s Center also coordinates opportunities for students to develop leadership skills with a focus on community engagement through programming, workshops, and student-led discussions. Popular Women’s Center events include:

- Speakers, readings, dinners, and workshops delving into themes of feminism, queerness, politics, gender equity, and more.
- Programming for Take Back the Night, an international event and nonprofit organization seeking to end sexual, relationship, and domestic violence in all forms.
- Programming for International Women’s Week, Queer Visibility Week, Bi Visibility Day, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Transgender Day of Visibility, World AIDS Day, Indigenous People’s Day, and Galentine’s Day.
- Swag Grab Pop-Up events where F&M community members can pick up stickers and pins and to learn more about ways to engage in LGBTQ+ and feminist communities and programming through the Center.
- Queer Self-Care Workshops designed specifically for queer students to help them explore best practices for radical self-acceptance and community-based care.
- LGBTQ+ Forums designed to center LGBTQ+ students and their experiences of being queer and transgender at F&M.
- Lavender Graduation celebrating the contributions and achievements of LGBTQ+graduating seniors.

Women’s Center Director Finds Her ‘Jam’ at Roller Derby Rink

In her role at the Women’s Center, Diosanny Rivera-Placido is known for being engaging and empathetic, the consummate listener for students and community members who come to the Center for advice or to share their thoughts on issues related to gender equality and justice, queer equality, women’s empowerment, and belonging and loneliness. But when she puts on a pair of skates, a helmet, and an imposing amount of safety gear, she transforms. In the egg-shaped roller rink, she becomes a hunter. A speed demon. A force of will. Rivera-Placido is a jammer for the Dutchland Rollers, a Lancaster-based derby team.

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The Alice Drum Women's Center hosts student-led discussions on a wide variety of issues related to gender, sexuality, power, and privilege.

The Alice Drum Women's Center regularly hosts a reception for Lavender Graduation, an annual ceremony conducted on college campuses across the U.S. to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally students to acknowledge their achievements and contributions.

Alice Drum, the namesake of the Alice Drum Women's Center. Drum established the Women's Center in 1992 to promote dialogue and action around women’s issues and to create a campus of equality and inclusion.

A student volunteer from the Women's Center chalks "Take Back the Night" on the sidewalk outside Steinman College Center. Take Back the Night is an annual event that protests domestic and sexual violence.

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Alice Drum Women’s Center

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Women’s Center Director Finds Her ‘Jam’ at Roller Derby Rink