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Willa Sexman ’15 sent you a sext:

Sex things are great! Ten thousand emails a week are overwhelming! Let’s do more sex things with fewer emails!

Message wbeckman(at)wesleyan(dot)edu to be added to the WeSex listserv and get a weekly email on all sex (and health and queer) things at Wesleyan. Updates from ASHA, the PHAs, the SART Intern, We Speak We Stand, SFCC, Take Back The Night, the Clinic Escorts, Unlocked, and QueerWes will be combined and sent out in one (really just one I promise!) message letting you know all of the things going on during the week, how to get involved, and where to get free condoms and sex toys.

Involved in a sex-related group that isn’t part of WeSex? Email wbeckman(at)wesleyan(dot)edu about your group to get on the list!

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Clinic Escorts Training/Info Sessions

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From Camille Casareno ’15:

Are you interested in reproductive justice issues? Angered at some recent Supreme Court rulings? Don’t know where to show your support?

Join Clinic Escorts! We escort clinic patients and their families from their car to the clinic door. This group supports a women’s health
clinic in Bridgeport when abortions are scheduled (and protestor presence is the strongest) on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

Students of all genders are encouraged to join. Volunteers only need to go once or twice a semester, or how many times you wish!

Training/Info sessions for the curious, newcomers, and returning escorts who would like a refresher:

TUESDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER: 4.15PM-5.00PM; 41 Wyllys Room 113

MONDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER: 12.05-12.50PM; 41 Wyllys Room 112

THURSDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 12.05-12.50PM; 41 Wyllys Room 113

New volunteers are strongly encouraged to attend one of the sessions. If you absolutely cannot make it to any one of them or if you have any questions or concerns, email me at mcasareno[at]wesleyan[dot]edu.

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Film Series Special Event: After Tiller

Co-sponsored by Clinic Escorts, Abortion Doulas and Rho Epsilon Pi

Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in 2009, only four American doctors will openly provide third-trimester abortions. After Tiller paints a complex and compassionate portrait of these physicians as they care for anxious, vulner- able patients at an important crossroads. Q&A with directors Martha Shane ‘05 & Lana Wilson ‘05.

Monday (3/31). 8pm. Powell Cinema. Free.

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Clinic Escorts Training

An important message from Shannon Welch ’14:

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Clinic Escorts will be holding two training and information sessions, Thursday Jan 30th at 7 and Friday Feb 7th at noon, both in 41 Wyllys Room 110.

Clinic escorts is a low commitment way to support women’s right to choose. We go three times a week in groups of four to a clinic in Bridgeport. Our job is to escort the women from their cars to the clinic door as they are berated by antis. We do not engage with the antis. YOU ONLY NEED TO VOLUNTEER ONCE A SEMESTER :) Bring your friends! Check us out here.

Date and Time: Thursday, January 30 @ 7 PM or Friday, February 7 @ 12 PM
Place: 41 Wyllys Room 110
Cost: FREE AND EMPOWERING!

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Clinic Escorts Training & Sign Up

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Chantal Ferguson ’13 writes in to let you know about one way to make the most of your Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday mornings:

Wesleyan Clinic Escorts is a group that trains and organizes Wesleyan students to escort patients into a heavily-protested women’s clinic in Bridgeport, CT. Clinic Escorts seeks to provide a respectful and supportive space for women making reproductive health decisions. Clinic Escorting is less a political statement than a functional means of supporting a woman’s right to self-determination and autonomy.

What you do as an individual: Each escort will only need to escort once or twice a semester. We travel in a group of five to the clinic each Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday morning, and return in time for 10 am classes. We are not there to engage with the antis; we are there for the women. Please come to a mandatory training if you want to participate in clinic escorts this semester! You must attend one meeting to sign up to participate whether or not you have been an escort before.

If you are unable to make one of these meetings or have questions, please e-mail Chantal Ferguson ’13 at cferguson[at]wesleyan[dot]edu, or Melody Oliphant ’13 at moliphant[at]wesleyan[dot]edu.

Date: Wed, Thurs, Fri, March 6, 7, 8
Time: 6:45 p.m., 12 p.m., 12 p.m. respectively
Place: 41 Wyllys Room 114

WeSex Listserve

From favorite life-sized Barbie doll Willa Beckman ’15:
E-mail wbeckman[at]wesleyan[dot]edu to be added to the WeSex listserve and get a weekly message on all things relating to sex at Wesleyan!  Updates from ASHA, the PHAs, the SART Intern, SFCC, Unlocked, and the Clinic Escorts will be combined and sent out in one compact message letting you know all of the things going on during week, how to get involved, and where to get free condoms and vibrators!

Involved in a sex-related group that isn’t part of WeSex? E-mail wbeckman[at]wesleyan[dot]edu about your group to get on the list!

Wesleyan Clinic Escorts Training

Wesleyan Clinic Escorts is a group that trains and organizes Wesleyan students to escort patients into a heavily-protested women’s clinic in Bridgeport, CT. Clinic Escorts seeks to provide a respectful and supportive space for women making reproductive health decisions. Clinic Escorting is less a political statement than a functional means of supporting a woman’s right to self-determination and autonomy.

We are excited to start escorting at the Summit Women’s Center again this semester. Please come to a mandatory info session/training if you want to participate in clinic escorts this semester or you want to learn more. Anyone can participate! Whether or not you have been an escort before, you must attend one meeting to sign up to participate. There are three trainings that should only take about a half hour each.

Monday, 9/20 at 12:30 pm in Usdan 110
Wednesday, 9/22 at 8 pm in Usdan 110
Thursday, 9/23 at 7:30 in Usdan 110

Interested in being a captain? You can sign up to be a captain at the meeting if you have escorted for at least one semester (and preferably have access to a car). We need at least one captain to go to Bridgeport each time we escort.

Questions? E-mail Darien Combs ’11 at dcombs@wes, Sophie Sadinsky ’11 at ssadinsky@wes or Hillary Biggs ’12 at hbiggs@wes.

We’re looking forward to a great semester!

Date: Sept. 20, Sept. 22,Sept. 23
Time: 12:30 PM , 8PM, 7:30 PM
Place: All meetings will be held in Usdan 110

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“Lake of Fire” Film Showing

Filmmaker Tony Kaye, best known for American History X, has been working on LAKE OF FIRE for the past fifteen years and has made a film that is unquestionably the definitive work on the subject of abortion. Shot in luminous black and white, which is in fact an endless palette of grays, the film has the perfect aesthetic for a subject where there can be no absolutes, no ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ He gives equal time to both sides, covering arguments from either extremes of the spectrum, as well as those at the center, who acknowledge that, in the end, everyone is ‘right’ – or ‘wrong.’

Professor Mary-Jane Rubenstein will lead a discussion after the film. Sponsored by FemNet and Wesleyan Clinic Escorts.

ADVISORY: The film contains graphic images and language that may be upsetting to some viewers.

Facebook event here.

Date: Tuesday, April 27
Time: 7pm
Place: PAC 001