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Comprehensive Sex Ed at the Field House 

October 5-9 | The Field House 

Stop by the Field House to pick up some safer sex supplies and learn about the value of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)! 

Sponsored by Living Well Services and Athletics 

Sexual Health Hang Out 

October 9, 2:00-4:00 | The MUB 

Visit the Sexual Health Interns at the MUB to learn about the intersection of mental health and sex. Grab candy and free safer sex supplies, too! 

Sponsored by Living Well Services 

Sexual Health Hang Out 

October 14, 12:00-2:00 | Philbrook Dining Hall  

Visit the Sexual Health Interns at the Philbrook Dining Hall to learn about the importance of comprehensive sexuality education. Grab candy and free safer sex supplies, too! 

Sponsored by Living Well Services 

Take Back The Night 

October 15, 8:00pm | Thompson Hall Lawn 

Rain Date: October 22 

Join us for our largest awareness event of the year! UNH's annual Take Back The Night has been held on campus since the 1980's and has only grown larger since it first began. This staple event brings together UNH community members for an evening of interactive awareness-raising activities, a community call to action, student speakers, a candlelight vigil, and concludes with an open mic portion for those impacted by any form of interpersonal violence to share. This evening is truly one of the most impactful and memorable events that happens here at UNH and is not one to be missed! Student-led and SHARPP Center supported. 

Take Back The Night is free from mandatory reporting obligations and is intended to be a safe space for healing, community building, and connection. This event is open to UNH community members. 

Sponsored by The SHARPP Center

Audre Lorde Interdisciplinary Symposium 

A mouth full of stars: Audre Lorde, black feminisms and classics 

October 16, 11:00-4:00pm | Huddleston Hall 110 (The Sun Room) 

This event is an interdisciplinary symposium that aims to bring the work and life of poet, author and activist Audre Lorde into critical engagement with ancient world studies. In addition to scholarly papers, the event honors Lorde’s legacy as a poet with comments and poetry by Danielle Jones, who is the director of the Â鶹app Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival, as well as an end-of-day public poetry reading by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips, who was trained as a classicist and taught Latin for many years in Massachusetts before taking up poetry.  

Research papers will be given by Tyler Archer (Lecturer of Literature Humanities, Columbia University), Hannah Culík-Baird (Associate Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles), Emily Greenwood (Professor of Classics, Harvard University), Andrea Kouklanakis (Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Hunter College) and Grace McGowan (Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Colby College), with opening comments by Elke Nash (Assistant Professor of Classics and Women's and Gender Studies, Â鶹app) 

For questions about the event including those related to accommodations, please write to Elke Nash at elke.nash@unh.edu. 

Sponsored by Classics Humanities & Italian Studies 

Library Display: Sex and Dating in the Digital Age 

What’s Cooking? - Sextober Edition 

October 20, 5:00-6:30pm | Thrive Demo Kitchen, HRC 

Join our interns in the kitchen at the Hamel Recreation Center as they teach you how to make meals that are healthy, tasty, budget-friendly, and easy to prepare. Classes are free and open to UNH students only.   

Please note that while classes are free, if you are no longer able to attend, you must cancel with at least 24 hours notice.  

If you fail to cancel with at least 24 hours notice, you will incur a $15 fee. 

Register here:  

Sponsored by Living Well Services 

LGBTQ+ History Month Lunch 

October 21,11:00 - 4:30 | Holloway Commons / Philbrook Dining Hall 
 
Join UNH Dining in Holloway Commons or Philbrook Dining Hall for this LGBTQ+ History Month Lunch. They will be serving fresh fruit, rainbow bagels and spreads, and rice krispie treats! Open to students, staff, faculty, and community members. 

Sponsored by UNH Dining and the Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom 

ThirsTea Thursday: Fresh Fruit Bowls! 

October 22, 12:00 - 2:00 | Beauregard Center (MUB 120) 

Come join the Beauregard Center in collaboration with Basic Needs for this walk-in style event! Make your own fresh fruit bowls in honor of LGBTQ+ History Month. This program is open to all students and staff, faculty, and community members are encouraged to stop by! Open to students, staff, and faculty. 

Sponsored by the Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom and Basic Needs 

Lecture: Women’s Sexual Bodies 

October 22, 2:00-3:30 | MUB 302 

Presented by Dr. Nena Stracuzzi, principal lecturer. 

A look at women's changing clothing styles over 100 years and the expected body silhouettes to which one should aspire to look their best in whatever is trending. Advertising for the accompanying changes in undergarments designed to achieve the optimal form are also discussed, showing the frequently blatant - sometimes oblique - negative messages about women's bodies in their natural form. 

Sponsored by the Sociology Department and Living Well Services 

LGTBQ Month Event: Neither/Nor/Both: Unlearning the Binary with the Muxes of Mexico 

October 23, 2:00-3:00 | Murkland Hall 115 Richard's Auditorium-Registrar 

Join us for a screening of Muxes, followed by a moderated conversation exploring what the muxe tradition can teach us about gender, indigeneity, and community outside the frameworks most of us take for granted. This event invites students, faculty, staff, and community members to engage with a gender tradition that challenges the assumption that the binary is universal. It's free and open to the public. 

Sponsored by the Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom and LLC 

Kidder Lecture & LGBTQ+ Resource Fair 

October 26, Lecture- 12:00-1:30, Resource Fair – 1:30-5:00 | Stafford Room, Memorial Union Building (MUB) 

The Kidder Lecture is an annual event that highlights issues related to LGBTQIA+ identities, inclusion, and social justice.  The lecture brings prominent speakers, scholars, and advocates to campus to engage the community in meaningful conversations about sexual orientation, gender identity, equity, and belonging. The event serves as an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to learn, reflect, and deepen their understanding of diverse experiences. 

Immediately following the Kidder Lecture, will be an LGBTQ+ Resource Fair with various on-campus departments and community-based organizations hosting tables to highlight resources for the LGBQTIA+ community and allies. 

Sponsored by The Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom 

Sexual Health Hang Out 

October 28, 12:00-1:45 | Holloway Commons 

Visit the Sexual Health Interns at Holloway Commons to learn about sexual health resources on campus. Grab candy and free safer sex supplies, too! 

Sponsored by Living Well Services 

Sexpo 

October 29,11am-2pm | Hamel Rec Center (HRC) 

Come to the Sexpo, the culminating event of Sextober! Learn about sexual health resources on and off campus, pick up safer sex supplies, and enjoy interactive booths, free food, music and more. This event is suitable for anyone practicing abstinence, sexually active, or thinking about becoming sexually active. UNH community members of all identities and beliefs are welcome! 

Sponsored by Living Well Services 

History of the AIDS Crisis at UNH & Beyond 

October 29, 12:40 - 2:00 | Ham Smith 201 and  

Current UNH student researcher Jordan Edwards will share their research on how the UNH campus experience the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and UNH alum Wayne April will share his experience as a journalist and in frontline social services work during the AIDS crisis after he graduated from UNH. Prof. Holly Cashman (Women's & Gender Studies) will moderate. 

Sponsored by Women’s & Gender Studies