The seventeenth annual Shepard Symposium for Social Justice occurred from April 3-6 last week. The symposiums focused on “Counter Narratives: Advocacy at the Intersections.” New York Times journalist Samuel Freedman spoke to audience members during Thursday April 4th’s events. A ‘Marriage Equality in the Equality State’ panel was held during the Shepard Symposium on the…
The Equality State is in danger of turning into the Inequality State after Wyoming’s House Committee defeated a bill to legalize same-sex marriage earlier this January. The “Marriage Equality in the Equality State” panel discussed Wyoming legislation’s progress toward marriage equality Friday morning at the Shepard Symposium. Wyoming representatives Cathy Connolly (D) and Dan Zwonitzer…
The Defense of Marriage Act has recently been deemed unconstitutional in several court cases since the Obama Administration instructed the Department of Justice to cease DOMA court defending in 2011. DOMA, which was signed into law in 1996 by President Bill Clinton, is a federal law that restricts federal marriage benefits to heterosexual couples. Under…
This Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the Elect Her conference put on by ASUW. There were about 50 people in attendance, mostly women, and there was a take home message being that women can run and win. Yes, campaigning is scary and there will be people who call you mean names but you…
Wyoming representative and UW professor Cathy Connolly spoke at Saturday’s Elect Her conference as the event’s keynote speaker. “I’m an unapologetic progressive feminist and I always have been,” Connolly opened her speech with. As one of only eight Democrats in the House of Representatives and one of only 15 women, she spoke about her own…
University of Wyoming professors Tracey Patton and Cathy Connolly will speak at the Elect Her conference at 10 a.m. on Feb. 23 in the Union Family Room. The conference is being held to promote women’s empowerment in election processes. Patton, a communications and journalism professor, and Connolly, a gender and women’s studies professor and Wyoming…
