Sexual Health Awareness & Guidance Week

This is the email that came through to the medical school social email list this week. Anyone else feel like they're living in Babylon? The subject line of the email -- "Sexual Health Awareness & Guidance Week" -- is a misnomer. If this week was really about awareness and guidance, wouldn't students be evaluating the health risks inherent in "alternate lifestyles," and comparing the average lifetimes of homosexuals versus the rest of the population? If this week is about increasing your rate of promiscuity, is it accurate to talk as if it's all about "guidance"? If this is guidance, then it's the guidance of the blind by the blind.
And the final event takes the cake: Relay for Life. All week death-promoting functions are slated, but then, the last event is about celebrating life. This goes beyond irony. This is an act in the Theater of the Absurd.
Any ideas on how I should respond to this?

I-SHAG has been coordinated by Campus National Organization of Women, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, LGBT Resource Center, Illini Hillel, Men Against Sexual Violence, Sexual Health Peers, UIUC Women's Resources Center and many others!

Sunday, March 8^th

6:30 pm Safer Sex Workshop for L³ (Ladies Loving Ladies) LGBT Resource Center, 323 Union

Monday, March 9^th

8:30am-5pm Ancient Choices Art Exhibit by Heather Ault. Remembering the Reproductive Choices of our Ancestors. Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright St.

6-8pm I-SHAG at the Sweet Spot with the Sexual Health Peers- Stop by to receive sexual health information. Wellness Center at the ARC

8pm PRIDE General Meeting RSO serving the LGBT community and its allies. LGBT Resources Center 323 Union

8pm Savage Love LIVE! With Dan Savage Illini Rooms A & B Sponsored by IUB and LGBT Resource Center

Tuesday, March 10^th

8:30am-5pm Ancient Choices Art Exhibit by Heather Ault. Remembering the Reproductive Choices of our Ancestors. Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright St.

10am-3pm Sex Out Loud sponsored by Feminist Majority Illini Union, Room C

6:30pm-9pm Rainbow Coffeehouse. A weekly gathering place for socializing, studying, relaxing or hanging out in a queer-friendly environment. Sponsored by LGBT Resource Center. Etc. Coffeehouse at the Wesley Foundation, Southwest Corner of Green & Goodwin

8pm Sexuality & Spirituality Panel, sponsored by the Sexual Health Peers 319 Gregory Hall

8pm Birth Control Workshop at Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls. Presented by the Sexual Health Peers

9:15 Q: Allen Hall's discussion & support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer students and their allies. Allen Hall Conference Room

Wednesday, March 11^th

8:30am-5pm Ancient Choices Art Exhibit by Heather Ault. Remembering the Reproductive Choices of our Ancestors. Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright St.

4pm Headscarves and Hotpants: Debating Gender Equality, Secularism and Religious Freedoms in the "New Europe" International Studies Bldg. Rm 101

7pm The Price of Pleasure: pornography, sexuality & relationships. Film screening & discussion by the Women's Resources Center & Men Against Sexual Violence 112 Gregory Hall

7pm Coming Out Support Group LGBT Resources Center 323 Union

9pm Student Senate Condom Crawl, Green St.

Thursday, March 12^th

8:30am-5pm Ancient Choices Art Exhibit by Heather Ault. Remembering the Reproductive Choices of our Ancestors. Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright St.

6-8pm I-SHAG at the Sweet Spot with the Sexual Health Peers Stop by to receive sexual health information. Wellness Center at the ARC

6:00 pm I-SHAG for U and I Benefit Concert at the Canopy, Sponsored by the Sexual Health Peers

6:30 pm Color of Pride Safe, friendly environment for LGBT students of color to share, listen and express themselves. LGBT Resources Office 323 Illini Union

7pm What's Hot? What's Not? Safer-Sex program presented by the Sexual Health Peers @ Illini Hillel

7pm IUB Drag Show Illini Rooms, Illini Union Sponsored by IUB

Friday, March 13^th

8:30am-5pm Ancient Choices Art Exhibit by Heather Ault. Remembering the Reproductive Choices of our Ancestors. Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright St.

7pm Period Party! Ikenberry Commons

Relay For Life, University of Illinois Armory