Showcase
19 November 2013
Oxford Women’s Open
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Mythbusters
Balancing The
Books:
Managing
Fatigue in
College
TCD SHOUT
Trinity College
Plan
• Create a workshop
• Visit 20 Schools
• Train 20 volunteers
Workshop
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Physical role model
Demystify
Break stereotypes
Supply a mature forum
Provide links for resources
Training
Facebook
Finances
• Travel
• Training
• Pizza
• Shoutout.ie
Result:
• 10 School workshops
• Launchpad for 100 schools.
THANKS!
Pathways to
Trinity
Pathways to
Trinity
• Intro video http://www.tcd.ie/disability/prospective/Tranistionplanning/about.php
• Living independently http://www.tcd.ie/disability/prospective/Tranistionplanning/unit2.php
• or http://youtu.be/WoM8O_5HMxM
PILOT WORKSHOPS:
• Introducing sex and gender
• Media and body image
• Sexuality and consent in the media
• Doing gender through drama
SCHOOLS:
• Larkin Community College – DEIS school
– mixed-gender
• Belvedere College
– fee-paying school
– boys only
In the TV show Glee, sixteen-year-old Quinn Fabray,
a popular cheerleader, has a boyfriend but hasn’t
slept with him. Her boyfriend’s friend, Puck, is also
attracted to Quinn. One night, Puck and Quinn are
alone. He gives her a few wine coolers to drink,
and makes a move. She asks if he has a condom. He
does, but he decides not to use it, and doesn’t tell
her this. They have sex. Quinn gets pregnant. Later,
she tells Puck: “I only slept with you because you
got me drunk on wine coolers and I felt fat that
day.”
QUESTIONS:
1. Did Quinn consent to sex? Why
or why not?
2. How much alcohol would be
needed for someone to be
unable to consent?
3. Would Quinn have consented
if she knew that Puck wasn’t
going to use a condom?
4. By being with Puck, Quinn is
losing her virginity while cheating
on her boyfriend (Finn). Does this
give Puck the right to have
unprotected sex with her?
5. Glee presents this storyline as
funny (the only serious bits being
the resulting pregnancy and
Finn’s hurt feelings). Do you think
it should have presented the
story differently?
QUESTIONS:
1. Did Natalia consent to sex?
2. Do you think porn can give a
false picture of how sex ‘should’
be? If so, how?
In the TV series Girls, Adam has recently started a
relationship with Natalia. They have had sex
before and both enjoyed it. However, Adam gets a
lot of his ideas about sex from porn. One evening,
when Natalia criticises the state of his apartment,
he orders her to crawl to his bedroom and has
rough sex with her. He doesn’t ask if she wants to,
and she doesn’t say no. Afterwards, looking upset,
she tells him: “I, like, really didn’t like that.”
3. Do you think Adam believed
Natalia was enjoying the kind of
sex he had initiated?
4. Girls does not show Natalia
accuse Adam of rape – she just
says that she “really didn’t like
that”, and she seems to have
broken up with him by the next
episode. Do you think that what
Adam did was rape?
Some themes arising
• No means no vs. yes means yes
• Alcohol, drugs, and how to know when someone is
incapable of consenting (Steubenville etc.)
• Heteronormative script: a perception that consent is
something boys have to get from girls
• Boys consenting/ not consenting, in heterosexual or
homosexual encounters: area of confusion
• Age of consent: students well-informed, many felt
gender imbalance unfair
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
• Research: curriculum, resources, teachers’ and
students’ perceived needs?
• Workshops: single-gender, mixed-gender,
combined model?
• Website?
Past, Present and
Future:
The Multiple Roles of
TCD Women Chemists
Symposium Celebrates the Contribution of Women in
Chemistry.
Event aimed to inspire younger female researchers by
celebrating the ways in which Trinity graduates have
impacted the field of chemistry.
Panel Discussion: P.Colavita, E.Champeil,
M.Kelly, Y.Traynor, P.Arnold, V.Nicolosi, C.Cardin
Associate Professor and Head of School, TCD’s
Sylvia Draper ‘The talks gave us an insight into the
careers of some really remarkable women and put in
context each one of their Chemical successes.
From the first graduate in the School in 1908 (inset:
Sydney Elise Auchinleck) right up to the modern day
we are losing scientifically educated women and
missing out on the unique contribution that they
could make to Chemistry. This symposium is a small
step in motivating the next generation of researchers
in the School to continue in a Chemistry oriented
career.
Trans* Health and Mental Health
Awareness
Supporting Students with Autistic
Spectrum Disorder to engage &
participate in leisure activities
The Eliz Week
Feeling part of it, on and
off-campus
DU Amnesty
Creative
Competition
All Faiths and
None
TCD Equality Fund 2013-2014
Call for innovative staff and student project
applications - now open
For information:
www.tcd.ie/equality
Deadline for applications is Friday 29 November at
5pm.
Thank You