USF students Chelsea Noack, Natalie Montoya, and Tracy Tran contribute to the Student Social Justice Exhibits with their installation on sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is a modern day form of slavery that is worth billions of dollars. There are hundreds of thousands of victims, 98% of them being women and girls. The inner workings of … Continue reading Sex Trafficking Exhibit
Join us for some coffee and donuts this Thursday, April 13th at 10:30 am and help us celebrate National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Libraries Transform.” National Library Week was created to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and to promote their continued use. Spring into action for libraries! Thursday, April 13th is … Continue reading Join us for coffee and donuts!
Biology students Breanna, Corinna, and Jocelyn constructed an installation for the Student Social Justice Exhibit, found in Gleeson library, to highlight female genital mutilation which is a major violation of girls’ and women’s human rights. Female genital mutilation refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury … Continue reading Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
The USF Seed Library and the San Francisco Public Library are collaborating to bring you a Pre-Earth Day Seed Swap. You are cordially invited to join us in celebration of our earth and community. Meet your neighbors, swap seeds with local gardeners, enrich your garden and your brain. There will be activities and speakers throughout … Continue reading Seed Swap on April 15th!
Earlier this month, Gleeson Library partnered with the Art+Architecture department and Professor Paula Birnbaum’s Museum Studies class to participate in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon. At this year’s event — the third annual one we’ve held at Gleeson — we talked about the gender gap on Wikipedia, we searched for information about women artists in various library resources … Continue reading 2017 Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon follow-up!
Our newest Student Social Justice Exhibit is on the topic of infertility. Many thanks to Otto, Zoe, and Milton for creating this informative exhibit! Many women, across the globe, are unable to explain their entire biological body. Thus, female biology is an applied pedagogy that ascribes almost half of all the people who live on … Continue reading Infertility Exhibit
From March 19th to March 30th, come see Natalie Smith’s Student Social Justice Exhibit. Smith’s exhibit looks into America’s incarceration system and how art could be a vehicle for change within it. Look near the reference desk to see how art is, and can be, used within incarceration and the community! ******************************************* Gleeson Library cordially … Continue reading Pipeline: How the Arts Disrupt the School to Prison Pipeline
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese laborers worked under perilous conditions and at a grueling pace to help finish the construction of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Yet, these contributions have been all too often overlooked and neglected in celebrations of this monumental achievement. The laborers’ hard work under low pay was viewed as … Continue reading “The Chinese and the Iron Road” New Exhibit at the Gleeson Library, March 20 – April 28, 2017
Are you excited about Women’s History Month? Are you passionate about women’s reproductive rights? Then we’ve got a display for you! For the week of March 20th, we’ll be presenting a display in the library about female reproductive rights. This library display is a project for our awesome service learning Female Biology class. We’re weaving … Continue reading Women’s Reproductive Rights Display
In honor of Women’s History Month and in light of the critiques of the exclusivity of the Women’s March, I created a display next to the Reference Desk about the experience of trans folk, with emphasis placed on trans women of color. The 2017 Women’s March focused on a genital-based feminism where womanhood was linked … Continue reading Spotlight on Trans Women
