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Front Range Community College #MeToo Interviews

*Update: The #MeToo art show at the Firehouse Art Center is on May 3, 2018, 6-8 p.m. not May 4. On Februrary 27, Front Range Community College (FRCC) in Longmont hosted a series of #MeToo interviews.
#MeToo at Front Range Community College
#MeToo Interviews at Front Range Community College (photo by Macie May/ Longmont Observer)

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*Update: The #MeToo art show at the Firehouse Art Center is on May 3, 2018, 6-8 p.m. not May 4.

On Februrary 27, Front Range Community College (FRCC) in Longmont hosted a series of #MeToo interviews. This is the sixth year that FRCC has hosted a similar event. Every year the theme changes to reflect the current political climate.

The interview forum is set up to share the stories of women, to add more to the movement, to highlight the women sharing their stories and to give women a space to speak up.

The interviewers were made up of students from either the Women's Sexuality class taught by Dr. Keenan or the Women in History class taught by Dr. Grim. The students had 10 questions that they asked each of the women who elected to be interviewed. Those questions will be made into a class assigned paper.

After the interviews were completed, the recording of the interview was taken to the FRCC ceramics class. Students in this class will make their interpretations of the interviews and turn it into ceramic art.

The art and the papers will become the focus of an art show at FRCC on April 20 and again on May 4 at the Firehouse Art Center.

The women who volunteered their time to be interviewed brought an emotional story with them. Jackie Trujillo, one of the interviewees, was excited to be able to share her story. When asked why she chose to volunteer her story, she replied, "I feel my story has a good ending. It is a story of self-empowerment. I want to share that with people. I'm proud of my story and I hope that other women can benefit from it."

There were a couple of gentlemen taking one of the classes and assisting with the interviews. Even they could feel the strength that these women were displaying. Iván Pagan remarked on the importance of such an event, "It is important to speak about these actions and problems that are not usually talked about. It is good to meet such strong women share their stories, I'm from a culture where you don't see this kind of problem as much." Iván is from Puerto Rico.

Front Range Community College created a space where students could learn from strong women. Those women were given a stage to feel empowered and to share their experiences. The women's studies professors feel that it is important that people talk about such a pervasive topic and were excited to create such an event.

To learn more about the stories of these women or to talk with them, you are invited to the art shows on either April 20 at FRCC or May 4 at Firehouse Art Center.