March 2, 2021 MACOMB, IL The Women s Center at Western Illinois University will celebrate Women s History Month 2021 throughout March with a wide variety of events planned.
This year s schedule includes:
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Monday, March 8, 6-7 p.m. – Meet Me at my Intersections; Navigating Spaces as a Black Queer Woman. Keynote speaker Tamika Austin will discuss navigating spaces as a Black, Queer Woman – the address will be virtual at wiu.zoom.us/j/95851078502 and registration can be completed on PurplePost. For additional information, contact Taylor Ziegler at tl-zeigler@wiu.edu.
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Tuesday, March 9, 5 p.m. – Finding Love in Your Own Body, a discussion of body standards and a painting session related to body positivity hosted in the Multicultural Center by Alpha Sigma Tau. For additional information, contact Aleezah Washington at a-washington2@wiu.edu.
Listen to the interview with John Curtis
“At the beginning of the pandemic we were averaging about 150 households throughout McDonough County that we were delivering to once a week. And now we’re up around 220 households,” Curtis said.
He said the delivery service is especially beneficial for people who are required to shelter-in-place. He said it also benefits people who are “…living at rates of poverty that are hard to imagine in a first world country.”
Curtis said every house receives milk, sliced bread, and frozen meat. Eggs are also included most weeks. He said the amount delivered to each home depends on how many people live there. He said Genesis Garden has been getting much of the food from the River Bend Foodbank in Davenport and Midwest Food Bank in Peoria.