Celebrate Women’s History Month with Community Events

To celebrate Women’s History Month 2025, Trinity University’s Women’s and Gender Studies (WAGS) program has organized a lineup of events and programming that is free and open to the campus community. The lineup is centered around the theme of “Ecofeminism: Gender and the Environment.”

“We selected this theme to provide our community with a space to discuss these issues and with ways to proactively engage in trying to build a better world together—an often-forgotten but central goal of feminism as we define it,” says Sarah Erickson, Ph.D., WAGS program director and Trinity communication professor.

WAGS will kick off the month with a volunteer event with the Trinity University Volunteer Action Community (TUVAC) to do river cleanup at Headwaters Sanctuary at Incarnate Word, the only nature sanctuary in the heart of San Antonio. WAGS will also host a Women’s History Month Book Club for The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a renowned author and ecologist who gave Trinity’s 2024 DeCoursey Lecture last fall. The first 15 Trinity students to sign up via this link will receive free copies of the book!

WAGS will round out the month with a panel discussion, in which five Trinity faculty members will reflect on how gender and the environment play a role in their own work, and a keynote address from Romy Opperman, Ph.D., a philosophy professor at the New School for Social Research.

Explore this month’s lineup in detail:

WAGS x TUVAC Sanctuary Restoration 
Saturday, March 1 | 9-11:30 a.m. | Sanctuary at Incarnate Word

WAGS is kicking off Women’s History Month with a volunteer opportunity to help support San Antonio’s local environment. Join WAGS and TUVAC in restoring the Headwaters Sanctuary at Incarnate Word with a river cleanup. Following the event, there will be a chat about ecofeminism with breakfast tacos! Sign up on GivePulse.

WAGS Swag Giveaway
Wednesday, March 5 | 12-1 p.m. | Coates Student Center

Stop by WAGS’ table in Coates for free stickers and more info on Women’s History Month programming and ecofeminism.

The Serviceberry Book Club
Thursday, March 20 | 4-5 p.m. | Dicke Hall Lobby

Join WAGS in reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World for the Women's History Month ecofeminism book club selection. There will be an informal discussion of the book on Thursday, March 20, in the Dicke Hall Lobby. Snacks will be provided. The first 15 Trinity students to sign up via this link will receive free copies of the book!

Ecofeminism Faculty Panel 
Monday, March 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Chapman Auditorium

Kelly Grey Carlisle, Ph.D. (ENGL); Shannon Mariotti, Ph.D. (PLSI); Ana Maria Mutis, Ph.D. (SPAN); David Rando, Ph.D. (ENGL); and Heather Sullivan, Ph.D. (GERM) will discuss how gender and the environment play a role in their work.

Ecofeminism Keynote Address 
Thursday, April 10 | 5-7 p.m. | Dicke Hall 104

Romy Opperman, Ph.D., a philosophy professor at the New School for Social Research, will share her research with the Trinity community.

To stay up-to-date on these events and more from WAGS, follow @TrinityWAGS on Instagram.