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 2024: Raising Sexually Intelligent Kids by Anisa Varasteh
Co-facilitatead by Courtney Moore, Coordinator of the Students with Dependents Program
Many parents feel uncomfortable with the thought of having ‘the talk’ with their children, especially teenagers. But what many people don’t realize is how much of sexuality education has nothing to do with sex itself.
In this book, Clinical Sexologist Anisa Varasteh teaches the foundations of a comprehensive sexuality education for children and teenagers and answers the most common questions young people have about sex and sexuality.
Fall Quarter 2024 Sessions
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Session |
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Time |
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1 |
10/31/2024 |
12:10-1pm |
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2 |
11/7/2024 |
12:10-1pm |
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3 |
11/14/2024 |
12:10-1pm |
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4 |
11/21/2024 |
12:10-1pm |
Winter Quarter 2025: #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing by Emily Joy Allison
Co-facilitated by Danielle Dilger, Library Administrative Services Assistant
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose the culture of sexual abuse and assault utterly rampant in Christian churches in America. Not a single denomination is unaffected. And the reasons are somewhat different than those you might find in the #MeToo stories coming out of Hollywood or Washington.
While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious form in Christian churches where those with power have been insisting, since many decades before #MeToo, that this sexually dysfunctional environment is, in fact, exactly how God wants it to be.
Winter Quarter 2025 Sessions
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Session |
Date |
Time |
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1 |
2/6/25 |
12:10-1pm |
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2 |
2/13/25 |
12:10-1pm |
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3 |
2/20/25 |
12:10-1pm |
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4 |
2/27/25 |
12:10-1pm |
Spring Quarter 2025: Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood by Allison Yarrow
Co-facilitated by Stacey Shimizu, Assistant Director of the International Center
Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals.
Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the 19th century, women have been steamrolled by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can “solve.” Common medical practices and procedures violate human rights and the law, yet take place daily. Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence and support, shape the overwhelming majority of America’s four million annual births.
Spring Quarter 2025 Sessions - Dates TBD
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Time |
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1 |
12:10-1pm |
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2 |
12:10-1pm |
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3 |
12:10-1pm |
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4 |
12:10-1pm |
Registration now open for Winter Quarter 2025!
Please note - there are limited spots (12) 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.
