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Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Photos from Past Performances"
This blog post includes photos from multiple instillations, and depicts the way that performers were dressed, spread out on the stairs, and paired with "bodyguards." Stares and Stairs posted this to their website on April 11, 2016.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Post-Chromatic Mini-Responses"
This blog post includes responses from different "performers" and "bodyguards" after an installation at Chromatic, a social house on campus. These responses detail student reactions to the instillation and observations on the party culture among…
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "So Many Stares: looking back at our first installation"
This blog post reflects upon the experience of the first ever Stares and Stairs instillation as well as the various supportive, kind, defensive, and violent reactions of students . Stares and Stairs posted this to their website on April 20, 2016.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "The Atwater Staircase: Performance Activism"
This was the first blog post Stares and Stairs posted to their website on February 2, 2016. This post lays out the origin and goals of the group.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Upcoming Exhibit: The Little Things"
This blog post describes a collaborative exhibit called "The Little Things" that Stares on Stairs later planned to show at M Gallery. This post described the exhibit's goal of bringing awareness to the parts of a survivor's experience that often go…
Stares and Stairs Official Website
Want to understand the goals behind Stares and Stairs and the experience of performing? Want to hear about the reactions of students walking by? This is a link to the Stares and Stairs website. This website includes performer accounts and…
Task Force on the Status of Women: Comments from Feminist Action at Middlebury
This document includes FAM's suggestions to the Task Force on the Status of Women at Middlebury in 2007. The Task Force that these suggestions were sent to published their report in 2008. These suggestions cover blue light phones, social houses, the…
The Campus: "‘Take Back the Night' protests violence against women"
This Campus news articles discusses the Take Back The Night March on April 25, 1990 which was attended by over 150 students, faculty, and town members, and organized by Elizabeth Toder '90. This candle lit event included multiple speakers from…
The Campus: "Archiving Dissent: Feminist lessons for student activists"
In this article, Elissa Asch and Rose Evans, both former Archives of Dissent workers, explain the project's goals. In the piece they emphasize the Middlebury College Administration's response to activism related to sexual assault over the years, and…
The Campus: "Middlebury lacks rape awareness"
In this Campus opinion piece, Landis reflects on recent racial issues on campus, and asks members of the Middlebury community to examine another issue that has been swept under the rug, sexual assault. Landis discusses the fact that sexual assault is…