Ask Annabel

Ask Annabel is the students' organisation of the department of gender studies at Utrecht university. Since her emergence in 2004 she organises film screenings, debates, excursions, benefit performances and workshops. She critically ponders the world around her and wonders where the power lies as she reads the newspaper, watches TV, surfs the Web, buys clothes, drinks a beer, goes partying, sleeps, eats a sandwich.

Ask Annabel is for everyone, inside and outside academia, who shares her dreams and desires.

Ask Annabel is also a space, actual and virtual where BA and MA students in gender studies can discuss and share their opinions, troubles, excitement, and ideas about studying in Utrecht.

Ask Annabel believes that meeting other colleagues and fellow students, listening to each other's experiences and working together, is the best way to make the experience of studying in the department more collective, richer, and most importantly, more enjoyable!

What gets you going? Let us know about you! Join the mailinglist via http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/askannabel.....

Ask Annabel has four main points of action:

BUDDY(MENTOR-MENTEE) SYSTEM

A buddying system has been set up, through which every new student is paired up with a buddy/mentor. In general, mentees and mentor meet on a regular basis (maybe once a month?) to chat about how things are going with research, courses, sports-activities and many other things. Everything the student discusses with their buddy remains confidential. The meetings take the shape of a coffee in a cafe, meeting at the library, together with fellow two or three mentees, or alone with the mentor. The main task of each buddy/mentor is to make the students feel comfortable about studying at the Women's Studies department, by being a point-of-reference who is simultaneously an insider and an outsider (mentors are either former or advanced MA-1 or RMA students or are currently doing their PhD at the Department).

MONTHLY 'gAAtherings'

The 'gAAthering' is an informal meeting in a small and quiet pub in Utrecht, taking place every first Monday of the month. It's for those who are connected with the Gender Studies department of Utrecht University, those who feel like meeting new people with a feminist perspective and for everyone else who's curious! It's the perfect place to meet up with fellow students and friends in a relaxed way, whilst planning new events, debating current affairs, sharing suggestions for paper topics, and much more!

GENDER STUDIES 'MAGAZINE'

Ask Annabel is currently working on a printed magazine: stay tuned!

REGULAR SESSIONS

Approximately once every two months Ask Annabel  organises a more academic meeting in the shape of a 'session'. The topics for these sessions are brought up by members individually or by the Ask Annabel team as a whole. Just navigate to the 'Events' section of this website to see what's in store and what's been done.

 

WHERE DO I COME IN?  

You can participate in many different ways. For instance by:

• Coming to one of the monthly 'gAAtherings'

• Joining in one of the regular sessions on a specific theme

• Joining the Ask Annabel email list

• Suggesting a topic for a session, a great film to go see, etcetera

• Writing something to be included in an issue of the Utrecht Gender Studies Magazine
  

• Thinking of a catchy name for this new magazine and helping us with the editing, layout, printing and distribution.

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