Education
The Women’s Center uses education (i.e. programs focused on raising awareness on issues related to gender) as a way to enact social change and to address a climate that supports sexism and other forms of oppression.
The Women’s Center works to dismantle gender oppression through prevention and education.
Advocacy
Individual advocacy
Assisting staff, faculty, and students with
- Specific incidents of sexual assault
- Dating/domestic violence
- Sexual harassment
- Stalking
- Gender discrimination
Institutional advocacy
- Changing the culture/climate
Support
Support Services
Assisting staff, faculty, and students with
- Crisis intervention related to sexual harassment
- Sexual assault
- Relationship violence
- Discrimination
Sapphics giving is HERE 🧡💛💚💙💜
come hang with Between Women for pizza, cupcakes, and a cozy night of sharing what we’re grateful for and celebrating our community 🍕🧁
📅 Monday 11/16
⏰ 6-8 PM
📍 SU 417
bring a friend or come solo, you’ll fit right in. if you need an accommodation to join, reach out to us at 860-486-4738 or womenscenter@uconn.edu
#UConn #UConnWomensCenter #BetweenWomen #SapphicsGiving
Every shirt here is a story. 🧵
The Clothesline Project is a visual display where survivors of gender-based violence, and the people who love them, decorate shirts to speak what often goes unsaid. Come walk through, read them, and take a moment with them. 💜
Honoring Helen Turner Watson ‘47, one of only four Black women to serve in the Navy after it desegregated in WWII, and a UConn nursing professor for 17 years. 💙
Career Drop-Ins are TOMORROW! 💜
Come through Wednesday, Nov 11, 12-1pm, in the Women’s Center Conference Room (Student Union, 4th floor, Unit 3118). Bring your resume, CV, cover letter, grad school app, or interview questions and get real feedback from the Center for Career Readiness and Life Skills.
No appointment needed. Just stop by, even if it’s just a rough draft. 📝✨
#UConn #WomensCenter #UConnWomensCenter #CareerReadiness
Cards for Kids is next Wednesday 💌 (11/11/26)
Come craft with us! 🎨 The Women’s Center and OCA are hosting a night of making heartfelt cards with encouraging messages to brighten a kid’s day.
Temporary tattoos will be there too, and everyone gets Good Molecules products to take home 🧴
📅 Wednesday, Nov 11
🕔 5PM
📍 Room 421G, Women’s Center
Bring a friend, bring your good vibes, we can’t wait to see you there! 💜
Need an accommodation to participate? Contact the Women’s Center at 860-486-4738 or womenscenter@uconn.edu.
Tonight’s Between Women’s meeting is LESBIAN HOT TAKES 🎙️🔴
bring your lesbian and queer hot takes, the spicy ones, the unhinged ones, the “i will die on this hill” ones. come yell about them with us.
📍 SU 417
🕕 6-8PM, tonight 11/2
need an accommodation to participate? contact the Women’s Center at 860-486-4738 or womenscenter@uconn.edu
Tomorrow, Thursday 10/29 at 12:30 PM, we’re watching the WNBA Finals together. 🏀🧡
Golden State Valkyries vs. Atlanta Dream on the big screen in the Women’s Center (SU 421). Come hang between classes, grab a seat, and cheer with us. Co-hosted with the Asian American Cultural Center 💜
No basketball knowledge needed, just good energy.
📍 UConn Women’s Center, SU 421
🕧 12:30 PM EST
If you need an accommodation to participate, contact us at 860-486-4783 or womenscenter@uconn.edu
#WNBAFinals #WomenInSports #UConnWomensCenter #UConn #WatchParty
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we sat down with Keilani, a facilitator with VAWPP (the Violence Against Women Prevention Program), to talk about what they do, red flags people brush off, and where you can get support on campus. 💜
Thank you, Keilani, for answering our questions and for the work you do for our community!
Swipe through to learn!
#DomesticViolenceAwarenessMonth #DVAM #UConn #UConnWomensCenter #VAWPP
Come join us this Wednesday for “Where Culture Meets the Ballot” to learn about how to vote and the positive impact you can make in your community! 🗳️
October 28th | 6:00–7:30PM | Student Union 421
🎨 Happening TODAY! come paint a mini-canvas with Greeks Against Sexual Assault (GASA) and the Center for Fraternity & Sorority Development. make one for yourself or for someone in your Greek community. bonus: it’s a cute gift for your future big or little 💜
📍 SU Room 421
🕔 5-7PM
need an accommodation? contact us at 860-486-4738 or womenscenter@uconn.edu
Bingo night is Oct 27th and we really hope you’re there 💗 6:30pm, Women’s Center Programming Room 🎀
Bingo night with a purpose 💗 Join us and The National Society of Black Women in Medicine for a panel on breast cancer awareness, plus a shot at a gift basket and other prizes!
🗓 October 27th
⏰ 6:30pm – 8pm
📍 Women’s Center Programming Room (SU 4th Floor)
Come learn something, play some bingo, and bring a friend. Need an accommodation to participate? Contact us at 860-486-4738 or womenscenter@uconn.edu
