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WSU community members are invited to attend the virtual “Reels with All the Feels” film festival, highlighting systemic issues women of all backgrounds face.
The festival celebrates Women’s History Month and includes four films. The WSU Women s Center and Coalition of Women Students run the festival. The first film, “Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa,” was streamed via Zoom March 8 for International Women’s Day.
The film showed what happens behind the scene of an abortion hotline and the role of hotline operators, said Kaitlin Srader, Coalition for Women Students chair.
Srader said the coalition offers programs and workshops around gender and racial justice, as well as inclusivity of marginalized identities, particularly women and women of color.
After working together for almost a year, three WSU students and alumni are helping their respective troops navigate through feminism despite never having met each other in person because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
FemScouts began as an initiative to build the feminist toolkit and prepare its members for the world, said Soph Roemer, recent WSU graduate, troop leader and Women s Center volunteer. The organization operates under the Coalition for Women Students.
Roemer and their co-troop leaders Acacia Patterson, first-year physics graduate student and community outreach student coordinator for the Women s Center; and Monipel Babb, first-year food microbiology doctoral student and troop leader are not experts, but they have knowledge and resources to communicate about feminism and its various topics to members in their troops.