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Listing of material on this website does not serve as a contract between the UMKC Women’s Center and any other party and does not constitute an endorsement of any organization or its activities. As such, the Women’s Center is not liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.

The UMKC Women’s Center also allows guest posts. In the case of all guest posts, the opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of UMKC or the UMKC Women’s Center.

Welcome to the UMKC Women’s Center Blog!

This blog is designed to create a safe space for UMKC students and Kansas City community members to learn about and discuss women’s and gender issues. We envision this blog as a space where we can come together to post on and discuss the hot topics of the day relating to women and feminism. Please take note of the phrase “safe space” and be sure to check out our Comments Policy.

While UMKC Women’s Center staff members will provide the majority of the posts, we also welcome guest posts written by students, staff, faculty or community members. If you are interested in submitting a guest post, please contact Brenda Bethman, Director of the UMKC Women’s Center or Kristen Abell, Assistant Director of the UMKC Women’s Center.

We are excited about setting up our new technology tools to better connect with UMKC students and the Kansas City community! This blog is only one of the ways you can connect with the Women’s Center–please be sure to follow the links on the left side of this page to join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter! And be sure to check out our website as well. If you have comments on our blog, website, or suggestions for ways the Women’s Center can serve you better, do not hesitate to e-mail me at bethmanb@umkc.edu.

I look forward to exciting discussion!

Brenda Bethman

The UMKC Women’s Center wishes to foster a lively, civil debate through the use of blog comments. You must be registered to post a comment. All comments are welcome as long as they do not contain racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise overtly objectionable content. Differences of opinion are welcome; comments will not be deleted on a difference of opinion alone. Threats, trolling, pointless belligerence, and hate speech are not welcome. Breaking of these rules could result in deleted comments or being banned from posting comments. The Director and Assistant Director of the UMKC Women’s Center have the final say as to whether comments are appropriate or not.

Questions about the comments policy can be directed to umkc-womens-center@umkc.edu

Welcome to the UMKC Women’s Center Blog!

This blog is currently under construction, but we will begin posting on Monday, August 18, 2008. So be sure to check back then to keep informed and join the discussion!