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The Women’s Studies Resource and Empowerment Center (WSREC)

The Women’s Studies Resource and Empowerment Center, otherwise known as the WSREC, is located on the second floor of the Student Center. The WSREC is home to Women’s Studies’ co-curricular activities, as well as to the Women’s Studies Library. We also house the Gay/Non-Gay Alliance and Sisters in Support (SIS), a student organization for women.

Every semester, we offer regularly scheduled co-curricular activities, as well as special events. With the exception of classes for which formal registration is required, all of our activities are open to every member of the campus community, including students, staff, and faculty. We invite you to participate.

Day Hours Activities
Monday 12:00 am – 8:00 pm
12:00 - 1:00 pm Dialogues about Difference: Gender (Co-sponsored by the Office of Spiritual Life and Chaplaincy)
2:00 – 3:00 pm Bloomfield Binkies – Blankets for Kids in Need
5:00 – 6:00 pm Dance Exercise and Weight Loss Group
Tuesday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
12:00 - 1:00 pm In the Race! Talk about the Election Together (Co-sponsored by the Office of Spiritual Life and Chaplaincy)
2:15 – 3:30 pm First Tuesday
2:15 – 3:30 pm Third Tuesday		 Women’s Studies Meeting
Gay/Non-Gay Alliance Meeting
4:00 – 5:45 pm Women’s Studies 256 (Registration Required)
Wednesday 12:00 – 8:00 pm
2:00 – 5:00 pm Drop-in Knitting
7:00 – 8:00 pm Dance Exercise
Thursday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
12:00 – 1:00 pm Weekly Walk for Wellness (Co-Sponsored by the Wellness Center) Meet in Front of the Student Center
1:15 – 2:30 pm Bloomfield Binkies – Blankets for Kids in Need
4:00 – 5:45 pm Women’s Studies 256 (Registration Required)
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Closed

Over the years, we have focused our special events on a variety of issues, including human trafficking, sexuality, and violence. In 2007, we immersed ourselves in the issue of human trafficking. We invited experts to speak on the topic:

  • Stacy Hanrahan, CND, volunteer at the United Nations
  • Eliza Fernbach, Artist-in-Residence at Bloomfield College
  • Cate Griebel, Safe Horizon Anti-Trafficking Program
  • Dina Yarmus, United Students Against Sweatshops
  • Professor Robert Ross, Clark University
  • Elissa Steglich, Managing Attorney, Immigrant Rights Program, American Friends Service Committee, Newark
From its inception to the present day, the Women’s Studies Program has sought to improve women’s lives here at the college. We have had a deep commitment to ending violence against women and educating the larger community in ways to do this. Over the years, we have sponsored several Clothesline Projects where women and men tell their stories or speak out about violence using a tee shirt as canvas. Through displays of these shirts on clotheslines (literally airing our painful secrets) throughout campus and providing opportunities for people to speak out about the violence in their own lives, we have raised awareness and provided support for change. One year, our efforts stretched across continents when we partnered with a group of women in the Mathare Valley in Kenya. http://users.bloomfield.edu/clubs/clotheslineproject/

We have also partnered with the Sisters in Support (a student women’s group on campus) to produce “The Vagina Monologues”, as part of the V-Day College Program, which has for over ten years, been dedicated to the goal of ending violence against women and girls worldwide. Students and faculty members have worked together to raise money and awareness through the performance of this altogether unique play.

The Labor Room is a literary publication. Originally published in print form, it is now published on the Web. Check the link for past issues and for information on submitting your own contributions.

Other events have included:

  • International Economic Development Days, education and fundraising events in support of grassroots women's projects in Kenya.
  • Participation in the World March of Women at the United Nations.
  • Self-Defense workshops led by “Prepare.”
  • Co-sponsorship of “Safe Zone Training” workshops.
  • Co-sponsorship of a Film Series on “Women” and “Sexuality.”
  • Invited Speakers and Performers:
    - Andrea Freud Lowenstein (Sigmund’s great granddaughter), educator and author of The Worry Girl
    - Doris Tijerino, former Director of the Nicaraguan Women’s Organization, AMNLAE and former Sandinista Chief of Police.
    - Marjorie Barnes, Performance Artist.
  • Co-sponsorship of Gallery Exhibits by Women Artists of Montclair, and “Faces of Culture” by Erica Polakoff.
Contact:
Debora Adler, Coordinator of Women’s Studies
(973) 748-9000 Extension 240