Safer is committed to engaging every discipline on campus in the work of violence prevention and trauma-informed response. To do this, we have developed the Safer Learning Community, with quarterly book circles specifically geared towards faculty and staff on campus, to empower you to join this work alongside us.
Read through our offerings below and register at the bottom of this site!
Fall Quarter 2025: Creep by Myriam Gurba
Co-facilitated by Paloma Moran, CAPs Psychologist
Creep is Myriam Gurba’s informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools, and homes. Through cultural criticism disguised as personal essay, Gurba studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted, sustaining ecosystems that unfairly distribute suffering and premature death to our most vulnerable. Yet identifying individual creeps, creepy social groups, and creepy cultures is only half of this book’s project—the other half is examining how we as individuals, communities, and institutions can challenge creeps and rid ourselves of the fog that seeks to blind us.
Fall Quarter 2025 Sessions
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Session |
Date |
Time |
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1 |
9/30/2025 |
12:10-1pm |
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2 |
10/7/2025 |
12:10-1pm |
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3 |
10/21/2025 |
12:10-1pm |
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4 |
10/28/2025 |
12:10-1pm |
Winter Quarter 2026: Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
Co-facilitated by Heather Bahner, CHW Medical Assistant
When did feminism lose its way? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of reactionary cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress.
Sophie Gilbert, a staff writer at The Atlantic and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and “riot girl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker side of nostalgia, training her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more.
Winter Quarter 2026 Sessions
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Session |
Date |
Time |
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1 |
2/5/26 |
12:10-1pm |
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2 |
2/12/26 |
12:10-1pm |
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3 |
2/19/26 |
12:10-1pm |
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4 |
2/26/26 |
12:10-1pm |
Spring Quarter 2026: The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
Co-facilitated by Martina Scattolin, Credential Advisor
We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities―they're deepening them.
In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny is being coded into the very fabric of our future. From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes readers on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women.
Spring Quarter 2026 Sessions
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Session |
Date |
Time |
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1 |
5/6/26 |
12:00-12:50pm |
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2 |
5/13/26 |
12:00-12:50pm |
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3 |
5/20/26 |
12:00-12:50pm |
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4 |
5/27/26 |
12:00-12:50pm |
Registration for Spring 2026
Please note - there are limited spots for each book circle. Therefore, we will be prioritizing participants who are able to attend all sessions. Please let us know in advance if you are not able to attend every sessions.
