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Aside from tabling for educational purposes and writing letters
to politcians and the editor of our school paper, we have also held some
fun events.
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OCTOBER 2002
Vox participated in U of L's annual Monster Mash by providing cups that were
decorated with facts about sexuality.
JANUARY 2003
We celebrated the 30th anniversary of Roe
V. Wade by hosting an on-campus coffee shop with free coffee provided
by Heine Bros. Read
the story in the Cardinal.
Off campus, we held a fundraiser at the Rudyard Kipling. Juanita, Rramsey
Grissom, Front Porch Campaign, and the Defilers all sweetly donated their
talents for a hugely successful event.
FEBRUARY 2003
National Condom Week. We handed out condoms on campus and at bars around
town. Lolli-condoms were the favorite!
MARCH 2003
We kicked off our emergency
contraception campaign when we tabled at Loretta Ross's speech on African
Americans and Reproductive Rights.
A few of us attended important conferences this month and came back with
a lot to share.
APRIL 2003
What a busy month. We tabled at Ani Difranco's concert, held a genitalia
cookie bake sale, co-sponsored Body Acceptance Week, and continued our emergency
contraception campaign on campus.
MAY 2003
Vox hosted a teach-out on emergency contraception in as part of the Student Activist
Network's Educate to Liberate series.
JUNE 2003
We celebrated a successful year and began our self-education tour of the
summer.
JULY 2003
We participated in Forecastle 2003, despite resistance from the organizers
to our pro-choice message. Read our commentary
on it.
We made an important decision to celebrate our autonomy and changed
our name from Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood to FLOR.
AUGUST 2003
Non-yard sale to raise funds for our zine, Non-issue.
We also tabled at Women's Equality Day on campus. We handed out copies of
our brand new zine, also completed this month.
SEPTEMBER 2003
We set up info tables at the Arts & Sciences picnic and at PEACC's hugely
successful Take Back the Night event--a protest against domestic violence
and a memorial for Elaine Fonseca Rodríguezz.
OCTOBER 2003
commonGround
invited us to table at their awareness-raising event in honor of National Coming Out Day. They roped off
a section of campus with caution tape and put up signs that warned passers-by
that live homosexual acts were being performed within the area. Students proceeded
to do their everyday activities in the roped off area; our table was set
up outside the tape...
"Talking about Freedom of Choice,"
presented by the ACLU of Ky.'s Reproductive Freedom Project, brought together
students on campus to discuss how we talk about choice.
Campus Equity Week Events.
We helped organize a film screening and discussion, then tabled for two full
days to raise awareness about the exploitation of "part-time" teachers on
campus.
JANUARY 2004
2nd annual Roe v. Wade celebration, this time at Vernon Bowling Lanes. The
Dirty Soul Party spun music, and everybody bowled their hearts out. We had
quite a turnout.
FEBRUARY 2004
We celebrated V-day, a worlwide movement--begun by Eve Ensler-- to end violence
against women, with a bake sale (vagina cookies, of course) and a reading
of Ensler's Vagina Monolgues.
At our table, PEACC
provided info about violence against women.
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