at Brown University

SHEEC is excited to announce Sex Week 2009 calendar featuring workshops, panels, a dance and lots of safer sex supplies. The week is the product of the hard work and that Brown collaborative spirit. The inaugural Sex Week has been organized to bring meaningful dialogue to intimate matters. Thanks to our many cosponsors: AKA, Coalition Against Relationship Abuse, Hillel, Interfaith House, the Poler Bears, The Queer Alliance, the Sexual Assault Task Force, Students for Choice, and the WPC’s.

Monday, April 6^th

Beyond Sexy: A Pole Dancing Workshop

6pm in Harkness Lounge on Patriot’s Court

Pole dancing can be far more than simply sexy. Come learn it as an art and exercise as we break the stereotypes associated with this newly popular form of dance.

Professor Tannenbaum on How To Communicate in Intimacy!

7pm in Salomon 001

Don’t know how to tell your partner where to touch?Hesitant about telling your partner how you like it? Join Prof. Barbara Tannenbaum and her partner on effective communication in the bedroom. Come and learn how to confidently voice your desires! This exclusive workshop is a rather radical departure from Professor Tannenbaum’s famous Persuasive Communication class. RSVP to BrownSHEEC@gmail.com for a spot in a once-in-a-lifetime workshop with a renowned Brown professor.

Tuesday, April 7^th

Clothesline Workshop

10am-6pm in the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Lounge

The Clothesline Project is a visual display that raises awareness and provides a vehicle for expression about sexual violence. Students decorate t-shirts about their own experiences, or make a shirt in honor of someone else. T-shirts will be displayed on a clothesline on the main green as part of Take Back the Day/Night. We will provide supplies, but feel free to bring your own shirt!

Sex.Religion@Brown

8pm in MacMillan 115

A student panel discussion on the intersections of spirituality, religion, faith, sexuality and sex that seeks to explore personal narratives, as well as looking at the treatment of safer sex across a diversity of experiences in various communities.

Wednesday, April 8^th

Our Choice Alone

6pm in SDWC Lounge

A workshop on the evolution of reproductive freedoms and a woman’s right to choose.

Wanna Do It/Don’t Wanna Do It

8pm in List 110

An interactive, media-based workshop by the Women’s Peer Counselors program on abstinence in the 21^st century. Why abstain? Learn about the history of abstinence and virginity and its role in the media, explore cultural implications of abstinence in the U.S., and discover whether you really wanna do it…or not.

Thursday, April 9^th

GAIA Sponsored Free HIV Testing Day-Long

1-6pm Leung Gallery

SAPE Training

6pm Location TBA Check back soon.

Brown’s new Sexual Assault Peer Education program uses the acclaimed Bystander Intervention model to raise awareness about sexual assault and empower all community members to create a safer environment. Come to a 90-minute training to learn how you can prevent sexual assault on campus and in the greater community.

Getting it on: Race & Sex at Brown

8pm Wilson 102

A panel discussion by students of their experiences as students of color at Brown and their thoughts on sex, sexuality and safety.

Friday, April 10^th

Sex Trivia

9pm at The Underground in Faunce House

Saturday, April 11^th

Safety Dance

10pm-2am in the Grad Center Lounge

Bringing back safer sexy together. A celebration of safer sex, featuring DJ Tramp of WBRU.

About SHEEC

SHEEC is an umbrella organization at Brown that brings together leaders of different student groups related with interests in or related to sexuality, sexual health, gender and sex. We are currently working to develop a peer sex education program to be launched in the coming semester. We can be reached at brownSHEEC@gmail.com As a student council we aim to (1) advocate for students’ needs with regards to issues of sexual health and wellness, (2) establish new resources on campus with regard to these same issues, (3) establish a network of communication among campus groups and organizations of similar focus, (4) organize and promote a series of on-campus lectures, screenings, discussions, events and workshops, (5) act as a liaison between the student body and administration concerning SHEEC events, (6) promote cross disciplinary event planning, (7) reduce or eliminate a lack of communication among student groups on campus as pertaining to issues of sexuality, sexual health and education, (8) increase awareness of student group activities pertaining to issues of sexuality, gender, sexual health and wellness, (9) reach a wider and more diverse array of students within the Brown community, and (10) draw on the talents of a variety of individuals representative of various student groups and organizations to increase cooperation, collaboration, and innovation between and heighten overall productivity of preexisting student groups. We are always looking for new ideas to reach our goals.

Meetings are 6:00pm Mondays in room 201 at Sarah Doyle’s Women Center. Everyone is welcome!