Women’s History Month 2022
The Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice honors and celebrates Women’s History Month. Initially designated as Women’s History Week, the United States has officially recognized women’s contributions to history since 1981. Yet the history, impact, and narrative of women extends well beyond that date chosen by Congress. As we enter into Women’s History Month 2022, we do so at a time when there is an humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, increased anti-Asian violence locally, and sustained, institutional racism globally. Simultaneously, the country remains divided on the human rights and full citizenship of women. And thus, some may question if this is a time for celebration.
I offer that we take the time to honor and celebrate, tend the seeds, and stoke the embers for continued organizing, progress, and change. In honoring we reflect. In honoring we assess our current conditions. In honoring we look forward. In celebration we come together as a community to restore our collective humanity, increase our resolve, and take the breath that allows us to rest, recharge, and recommit. In honor and celebration of Women’s History Month, I encourage us all to find our individual and collective power. Women’s issues are human rights issues. The leadership, the scholarship and the community of women at The New School are essential to the present and the future of The New School and the world in which we exist. There is no history without women’s history and no future without all women.
Join Us in Conversation with Senator Nina Turner and Angela Glover Blackwell
As a contribution to The New School’s Women’s History Month celebrations, the Office of Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice, in collaboration with the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, will present a program on International Women’s Day. Please join us for the Henry Cohen Lecture Series, Visions of a Post-Neoliberal Future, on Tuesday, March 8 at 7 PM EST.
Register for the event here.