Join us to honor the accomplishments and contributions of women throughout history! Check out our fantastic lineup of events, as well as events hosted by partners across campus. GO.UIC.EDU/WHM

Feminist Book Party
Monday, March 2

Engineer Your Own Way: Power. Possibilities. Real Talk.
Monday, March 2

Big Girl: Exploring Race, Gender, and Fatness in U.S. Culture
Wednesday, March 4

International Women’s Day 2026 Celebration
Friday, March 6

The Trouble with My Hair: Coloring, Cutting, and Coming into Who I Am
Wednesday, March 11

Bloom Feminist Collective Kickoff Art Build
Thursday, March 12

PERSIST(Σ): Beyond the Binary: Reimagining Gender Equity & Belonging in STEM
Monday, March 16

Women in Business Conference: Courageously Authentic
Tuesday, March 17

Short Reads Book Club
Wednesday, March 18

Missing and Forgotten Women: Lost in the Shadows
Wednesday, March 18

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Wednesday, March 4 - TODAY!
12:30-2:30pm | Black Cultural Center, 207 Addams
Audience: Everyone (open to the public)

Join us for a critical and heart-centered conversation about race, gender, and fatness in U.S. culture, rooted in Black feminist care and deep community. We’re centering our stories, our bodies, our joy, and the fullness of who we are.

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Tuesday, March 10
9:30am - 5pm | 301 Student Center East
Audience: Everyone (open to the public)

As the world confronts fascism, authoritarianism, imperialism, and genocide, the UIC Institute for the Humanities is bringing together scholars, organizers, and artists to address the limitations of liberal responses. Can liberal cities and institutions protect vulnerable communities from repression? What can be done to push beyond carceral liberalism and center the humanity of the most vulnerable?

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Wednesday, March 11
12-2pm | Hull-House Museum, Dining Hall
Audience: Everyone (open to the public)

oin us for an intimate exploration of storyteller and solo performer Dr. Ada Cheng's gender, sexual, and racial identities and boundary-making through her evolving relationships with her hair and her stylists.

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Thursday, March 12
4-6pm | WLRC, 1700 Student Services Building
Audience: UIC Students, Staff, Faculty

Bloom Feminist Collective is an emerging, intergenerational space on campus. We aim to build an educational collective for skill-building and learning based on intersectional feminist principles.

Come join us for our kickoff art build event, and to collaboratively dream and design Bloom's future!

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Monday, March 16
1-2pm | Zoom
Audience: UIC Students (all levels)

Being authentic matters! Join engineering alumni as they share how culture, identity, and community support growth and belonging. More details coming soon!

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Wednesday, March 18
2-3:30pm | 1-360 Daley Library
Audience: UIC Students, Staff, Faculty

Join us and the UIC Library's Undergraduate Engagement Program for a session of the Short Reads Book Club in commemoration of Women's History Month.

Book title coming soon (it will be a graphic novel)!

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Choose from dates in March (see below)
1700 Student Services Building
Audience: UIC Students (all levels)

UIC students are a huge part of what makes the Women's Leadership and Resource Center and Campus Advocacy Network successful.

Whether you're familiar with our center or are hearing about us for the first time, come to a focus group and tell us how we can improve WLRC/CAN!

Students of all gender identities & expressions invited.

Food and fun thank you gifts provided!

Fill out this form and choose from these dates:

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See dates below
WLRC, 1700 Student Services Building
Audience: UIC Students (all levels)

New members of UIC sororities/fraternities: Sign up for a Campus SaVE session to discuss healthy relationships--and the connection between boundary violations, bystander intervention, and gender-based violence prevention education. Choose from these dates:

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Wednesday, March 18 | 11am - 12:30pm
Monday, April 6 | 12-1:30pm
Latino Cultural Center
Audience: Everyone (open to the public)

Join us for some hands-on gardening and learn how Heritage Garden interns are connecting horticulture with environmental sustainability, cultural diversity, and social justice. 

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Ramadan is February 18 - March 19, 2026

Ramadan Mubarak / Ramadan Kareem! As we are in the midst of this holy month, we're grateful for the resources our colleagues at the Arab American Cultural Center provide to help us learn and celebrate. If you are looking for a quiet space to pray, WLRC can provide space and prayer mats during our regular business hours.

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Meet Nate Chang Sawyer, CCUSC Community Mental Health Intern!

As the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) community mental health intern, Nate offers different kinds of 1:1 student support including but not limited to:

- mental health/therapeutic support
- connections to resources and mutual aid, and
- advocacy support while navigating institutional barriers and academic ableism.

As a Taiwanese-American graduate student with lived experience of mental illness and psychiatric disability, Nate’s work is centered on collaborating with fellow students to imagine and build structures of collective care inside the university.

There are no costs or session caps. Meetings can be scheduled via email (nsawy@uic.edu) for both in-person and remote. Nate’s office is in 4080 BSB.

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As the academic year progresses and many of you and your families are being impacted by the actions of ICE and their abductions, WLRC and the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) want to underline our ongoing support to you all. Remember that there are multiple pillars on campus to help you stay resolute in completing your studies.

As you continue to fight the good fight, know that you are not alone in the urgency you are feeling. Our space is open to study, gather in community, and check in with

staff. We are here to support your academic success through the end of the semester and beyond. We will continue to find courage in our solidarity and community, fight injustice, and build spaces of love and care.

Additional Campus Resources:

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Survivors, we are here for you!

Please reach out to the Campus Advocacy Network any time you need support, information, resources, answers, and/or advocacy related to safety, healing, or gender-based violence (sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, stalking, harassment, family abuse).

Our services are free, confidential, and open to all members of the UIC community.

To connect with an advocate:

We can help you

We're also here for allies! Please reach out to us if you are in a role where you may need to support survivors on campus (instructors, mentors, advisors, student leaders, friends, or colleagues) or have questions about resources, mandated reporting, and more. 

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If you are a student leader, instructor, or supervisor, please consider inviting CAN to speak to your class through our Don’t Cancel Your Class! program, or request a training for your department, college, student organization, or other campus unit. 

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Faculty, please include info about us in your curriculum and syllabus:

"If you have experienced sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, stalking, or harassment, there is help available. The Campus Advocacy Network provides free and confidential services to UIC students, faculty, and staff who have experienced or are experiencing interpersonal violence. 

Pregnant and parenting students are also welcome to contact CAN for resources, information, and support.

If you would like to speak with an advocate, please email CAN at can-appointment@uic.edu, call (312) 413-8206 and leave a voicemail message, text (312) 488-9784, or fill out CAN's Ask An Advocate form online at can.uic.edu/ask. To learn more, visit CAN's website at can.uic.edu."

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Obama Foundation: Voyager Scholarship
Apply by March 17
Supports students who have a passion for helping others and experience serving their communities.

UIC United Faculty: Apply for the Student Fast Fund
The UICUF FAST Fund is now taking applications for grants of up to $500 to support students in emergency financial situations. 

UIC Asian American Student Academic Program: Career Talks: Life in Public Service
Wednesday, March 4 | 12-1pm, 2720 SSB
Join us at AASAP for a career talk and Q&A about careers in public service and government! 

UIC United Faculty: The Assault on Academic Freedom and the Fight against the Far Right
Monday, March 9 | 3:30-5pm, Student Center East, Cardinal Room
Join us for a critical conversation on academic freedom with UIC alum Tom Alter.

UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy: The History and Future of Palestine with Rashid Khalidi in conversation with Dima Khalidi
Thursday, March 12 | 4:30-6:30pm, Student Services Building Conference Rooms
Dr. Khalidi will give a lecture on Palestinian experiences of and resistance to colonialism and imperialism.

UIC Social Justice Initiative: Disappearing Acts: A Sonic Response
Thursday, March 12 | 7-9:30pm, Chicago Justice Gallery
Join us for a powerful sound performance featuring a lineup of experimental sound artists responding to Soledad Fátima Muñoz’s solo exhibition, We’re Not All Here / No Estamos Todes.

Feminist Majority Foundation: National Young Feminist Leadership Conference
March 28-30, Arlington, VA
NYFLC is a weekend of learning, organizing, and community-building with truly extraordinary feminists; from long-time movement leaders to emerging student organizers.

Healing to Action: Apply for Healing Generations Leadership Program
Apply by March 31
Designed by and for survivors, Healing Generations is an 8-week program where participants learn about gender-based violence and related topics while also building skills to organize against gender-based violence as a community.

UIC Women in Engineering Programs: Women in Engineering Summer Program
June 13 - July 8 | Apply by April 4
WIESP is a free program that offers 11th- & 12th-grade students an opportunity to learn about engineering through hands-on projects and corporate partner visits. 

UIC Counseling Center: Parenting Student Support Group
Thursdays | 12-1pm, Hybrid
Come as you are to connect, share experiences, and receive support from your peers. This support group is open to any UIC student who is a parent or caregiver in any way.

UIC Law Pro Bono Litigation Clinic: Free Name & Gender Marker Changes
Students assist transgender individuals with changing their names and identification documents, prepare necessary court documents, and appear in court on behalf of individuals at hearings. Includes court and document fees.

UIC Library: Upcoming Events
Check out events from the Undergraduate Engagement Program and other departments within the university library!

CAASE: Upcoming Events
The Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) addresses the culture, institutions, and individuals that perpetrate, profit from, or support sexual exploitation through prevention, policy reform, community engagement, and legal service.

Resilience: Upcoming Events
Resilience works to end rape culture and empower sexual assault survivors through advocacy, education, and healing.

Check out what's happening at all our sibling centers this week!

Founded as a direct result of campus activism, the UIC Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change (CCUSC) work collectively to produce knowledge and shift university culture, validating the multidimensional lived experiences of historically and currently excluded communities.

Informed by social justice frameworks, the Centers support students, faculty, and staff as they build a strong identity and sense of belonging, becoming change agents for a more just campus and society.

The Centers connect our communities and design intercultural and engaged-learning opportunities, student mentorship programs, cultural programming, advocacy, collaborative research, and community partnerships.

Through these efforts, the Centers expand the educational and transformational mission of UIC.

In light of actual and potential threats to our communities, both here at UIC and throughout the Chicago area, it's important to know what our rights are when interacting with immigration and other federal law enforcement officers.

WHAT TO DO

UIC's administration has shared official protocols for such interactions on campus.

If you need assistance or suspect ICE presence anywhere in IL, please call the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) Hotline: 1-855-435-7693.

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CAMPUS RESOURCES

UPCOMING TRAININGS & EVENTS

We are here for you and will continue to share resources and information with our campus community.

UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center
& Campus Advocacy Network

1700 Student Services Building (MC 363)
1200 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607

(312) 413-1025 ∙ wlrc@uic.edu ∙ wlrc.uic.edu

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