Workshop: Safer Space for BIPoC FLINTA* with Jasmin Mouissi
In this workshop, Jasmin invites you to create a space together in which we can engage intensively with our experiences as BIPoC FLINTA*.
The workshop will take place on 27.05.2025 from 16.00 to 19.00 via Zoom. You can register here.
Racism is a special form of discrimination. For many people, experiences of racism are an integral part of everyday life, a constant companion that leaves behind painful experiences time and time again. Racism can also be very powerful when combined with other forms of discrimination. Being confronted with this structural violence and having to deal with it can be an enormous challenge for those affected.
Empowerment is a form of resistance against racism. Safer spaces can serve as a strategy for action to consciously deal with the reality of one’s own life.
This workshop offers a safe(r) space and focuses on the experiences of BIPoC FLINTA* at the Ruhr University Bochum.
Different power relations are also effective in Safer Spaces. We will develop an awareness of this with the aim of strengthening our individual and collective resistance to racism and intersectional discrimination.
Participants can share their experiences, gain clarity about racism and intersectional discrimination, develop options for action, explore resources for resistance and self-empowerment, network and draw strength.
About the workshop leader:
My name is Jasmin Mouissi. I live, love, learn and laugh as a Black woman. For many years, I have been thinking, speaking, researching, writing and teaching about empowerment, critique of racism and power, and Critical Whiteness with the goal of co-creating a more connected and peaceful world.
I work from an intersectional perspective with needs- and process-oriented offers in order to meet people in their multidimensionality.
“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”
Audre Lorde
Awareness networking meeting for RUB students
In close cooperation with the FSVK and the FSRs, the project Unser Campus – gegen Sexismus an der RUB! and the RUB Equal Opportunities Office have developed a handout dedicated to the topic of awareness in the planning and organization of student-organized events. From this process and the awareness workshops in the summer semester 2024, interest has arisen in further networking between students on the topic of awareness at RUB. This networking meeting will take place on April 22, 2025 from 3 pm to 6 pm. Interested parties can register until 20.04.2025 at unsercampus@rub.de.
Awareness workshops for student council members
In order to implement the theoretical contents of the “Awareness handout for student-organized events at the RUB” in practical FSR work, we have developed a two-part workshop format for you.
The workshops in the Summer term 2025 will take place on 15.05.2025 and 22.05.2025, both from 14-19 hrs. If you are interested, you can register until 10.05.2025 at unsercampus@rub.de.
UNSER CAMPUS with a presentation at the conference “Our UNIverse: Empowered to speak up – A conference against abuse of power at universities” at TU Berlin
As part of the conference “Our UNIverse: Empowered to speak up – A conference against abuse of power at universities” (08.10.2024 and 09.10.2024 in Berlin), Nina Bartholomé (UNSER CAMPUS project coordinator) and Svenja Przigoda (UNSER CAMPUS project assistant) will give a presentation on 09.10.2024 and introduce UNSER CAMPUS, among other things. Registration for the conference is open, further information can be found here.
Awareness-Handreichung für Fachschaftsräte
In the last few months, an “Awareness Handout for Student Organized Events at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)” has been created in cooperation with “UNSER CAMPUS” and the Central Equal Opportunities Office, in close cooperation with the FSVK and the FSRs of the RUB. This is now available for download here in German and English. Awareness workshops will also be offered again this semester.
The news portal also reported on the handout, you can find the article here.
Workshop: My experiences as a woman* at university
Whether in WhatsApp chats, in lectures or at a student party: for most women*, border-crossing behaviour, sexualized harassment and various other experiences of discrimination are often part of everyday life at university. In this workshop by Nina Bartholomé (UNSER CAMPUS project coordinator), female students learn how to better communicate their boundaries and stand up for them.
When and where?
- When: Friday, April 26, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Where: Peer Quartier, just a few minutes‘ walk from the Unicenter. You can find directions here.
- Costs: participation is free of charge
- Catering: coffee, tea, fruit and small snacks will be available on site
Further information on registration and the workshop can be found here.
Moodle course: “MeToo in Science”
In the self-study course “MeToo in Science” from the Marie Jahoda Center for International Gender Studies, you will learn interesting facts about sexism, intersectionality, discrimination and masculinity.
The course includes informational texts and interview podcasts, recommendations and strategies for action in the event of an emergency, helpful recommendations and handouts for low-discrimination teaching, as well as a detailed list of materials and literature for independent further training in various topics and issues relevant to a diverse university community.
You can find the course here.
Publication of the handout “Dealing with sensitive content in teaching”
After 1 1/2 years of work, the project “Inhaltshinweise RUB” now has a handout on how to deal with sensitive content in teaching. This can be downloaded free of charge here. You can also find more information there!
End of the exhibition of the “Catcall-free zone” initiative
Last Friday (8.12.2023) the exhibition of the initiative “Catcallfreie Zone” in cooperation with UNSER CAMPUS came to an end and was dismantled. We would like to thank the Catcall-Free Zone and everyone who made this possible. Campus-Radio CT also reported on the exhibition. You can find the report here.
MaJaC Colloquium | Lecture “Violence against women – building bridges between the disciplines” by Dr. Julia Habermann
As part of the MaJaC Colloquium, a lecture with Dr. Julia Habermann on “Violence against women – building bridges between disciplines” will take place on 13.12.2023 at 6 pm. Julia Habermann is a social scientist and has been researching the topic of violence against women for several years. Her award-winning dissertation on partner homicide was supervised at the RUB by Prof. Dr. Katja Sabisch and Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelstein. The MaJaC cordially invites you to attend!
Exhibition Catcallfree Zone from 13.11.-08.12.23 at the RUB!
UNSER CAMPUS is bringing the exhibition of the Initiative Catcallfreie Zone from Bochum to RUB. The exhibition will be on display in the Mensa from 13.11.-08.12.23. We are looking forward to lively interest and many visitors. You can also find more information in the article in the RUB Newsportal. The AKAFÖ has also reported on this, you can find the article here.
Article in the 4th issue of the “CHANCEN=” magazine
In the new issue of the “Chancen=” magazine of the RUB Equal Opportunities Office, we were allowed to present the UNSER CAMPUS project in a short article. You can find the current (and all other) issues and further information here.
Article in the RUB news portal from 12.10.2023
An article about the project and the work of UNSER CAMPUS has been published on the news portal of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. You can find it here.
