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Sonya Renee Taylor and The Body is Not An Apology movement believes that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with the body, our own and others. Join Sonya Renee Taylor to learn how information dissemination, personal and social transformation projects, and community building fosters global, radical, unapologetic self-love that translates to radical human love and action in service toward a more inclusive, just, equitable and …

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WomenNC scholars from UNC-CH, Duke, NC State and NC Central participated in the third of a series of workshops in their Juanita M. Bryant CSW Leadership Training Program on advocacy. Scholars learned strategies for effective advocacy and got paired up with advocates with subject matter expertise in their areas of research to promote tangible and practical solutions to address gender disparities. Topics of research included: Enhancing health outcomes of pregnant women and their children …

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WomenNC is excited to announce the receipt of a $3,000 grant in support of our CSW Scholars Program to further our mission to eliminate injustice against women and girls. The Fund’s grant will support the work of all of the 2019-20 scholars, but it has a special interest in community re-entry programs, maternal and child health, and reproductive justice, themes represented by at least three of our scholars this year. Leticia Ross (left) of NC Central University is studying the …

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A tribute to Beth Dehghan from Dan Figgins, PhD, retired from the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Office with the rank of Counselor of Embassy. He has taught in the Political Science Department of NCSU since 1998. Beth Dehghan. A name to conjure up. Her accomplishments are legion and her achievements are legendary. She has raised two daughters, one a nationally known immigration lawyer. Beth advocated for equal rights and opportunities for women in her native Iran at some danger to …

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