2026 Women’s History Month
Monday, Mar. 2 | 8 AM – Noon | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by The Women’s Center
Start your day and Women’s History Month right with the perfect cup of coffee, made just the way you like it!
While you’re enjoying your morning brew, make sure you’ve grabbed our official Women’s History Month Calendar! It’s packed with all the incredible events, workshops, and celebrations we have planned to honor the amazing women who have shaped our world. Don’t miss out on a single moment. Let’s kick off this inspiring month together!
HER Seat at the Table: Domestic Violence Awareness
Monday, Mar. 2 | 6:30-7:30 PM | Greene 340
Sponsored by Zeta Chi Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
This event aims to bring women together to learn about campus resources and address common myths surrounding domestic violence. It will create a supportive space for discussion, education, and empowerment, encouraging attendees to better understand available support systems and how to uplift one another. Participants will leave with increased awareness and practical tools to foster a safer, more informed campus community.
Tuesday, Mar. 3 | Noon – 1:30 PM | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by LGBTQ+ Center
Come learn about the cottage core aesthetic! What does it mean to participate in this aesthetic, and how can we view it from a queer and feminist lens? As a bonus, come create nature-inspired art!
Wednesday, Mar. 4 | 3:30-5 PM | Intercultural Center, Benson 346
Sponsored by Intercultural Center, Women’s Center
This Women’s History Month, join us at Her Table to celebrate women, food, and fellowship. Enjoy a special meal by a women-owned business, Empanada Grill,with traditional, vegan and vegetarian options available, and stay to hear from inspiring chefs as we honor women’s stories and impact.
Thursday, Mar. 5 | 4 – 6 PM | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by Campus Life
Join us in creating handmade blankets for those who currently live in a women’s shelter. A blanket is more than warmth, it is a symbol of safety, care, and community support. Through this collective act of service, we affirm our shared responsibility to show up for survivors with compassion and intention, offering comfort during a time of transition and healing.
Thursday, Mar. 5 | 5:30PM| Intercultural Center Lounge, Benson 346
Sponsored by Women’s Center
Join us for a special community screening of Girl Rising, a powerful documentary that shares the stories of girls around the world fighting for the right to education and opportunity. Stick around after for a discussion of the film in the context of Women’s History Month. Dinner will be provided!
Monday, Mar. 16 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by Campus Life & Delta Xi Phi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.
Join us in assembling hygiene kits for individuals living in a women’s shelter. Access to personal care items is a matter of dignity, health, and self-worth. By coming together to prepare these kits, we demonstrate our shared commitment to compassion, community care, and showing up in meaningful ways for those navigating crises and rebuilding their lives.
Monday, Mar. 16 | 5 – 6:30 PM| Intercultural Center, Benson 346
Sponsored by Intercultural Center & Africasa
Immerse yourself in an intimate workshop where natural ingredients meet self-care excellence. Create your signature lip scrub while celebrating women’s achievements and learning about botanical beauty traditions throughout history.
Tuesday, Mar. 17 | 5 – 5:45 PM | Wellbeing Center B201
Sponsored by Campus Recreation & Office of Wellbeing
Get ready to move, and feel empowered! This women’s empowerment dance cardio class features high-energy choreography, nonstop movement, light toning, and a playlist of powerhouse women artists. Release your inhibitions and join us for an uplifting, confidence-boosting dance. There will be resources and self-care items to take home.
Wednesday, Mar. 18 | 3:00 – 5 PM |ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives (Room 625)
Sponsored by ZSR Library & Special Collections
Explore the diverse experiences of women at Wake Forest in this pop-up exhibit, featuring both prominent figures and the often-unrecognized individuals who shaped the university’s history. You are invited to add your voice by sharing your story for the University Archives.
For more information, please contact archives@wfu.edu
Thursday, Mar. 19 | 5:30 – 7 PM | Black Student Association Lounge
Sponsored by Sexual Health Ambassador Group & Black student Association
Join us for a 1.5-hour drop-in conversation centering Black women and relationships—sexual, romantic, and platonic. While the focus is on Black women’s experiences, all are welcome. Together, we’ll create a supportive space to explore joy, challenges, self-prioritization, and pleasure in a world that doesn’t always uplift us.
Thursday – Saturday, Mar. 19 – 21
Sponsored by Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Women Gender Sexuality South (WGSS) is an annual conference that is a vital space for feminist scholarship, activism, community-building, and collective struggle toward justice. As it looks to the next 50 years, WGS South remains committed to sustaining feminist futures, creating space for vision, resistance, and the long-term work of social change.
Sunday, Mar. 22 | 1:30 – 3:30 PM | Benson 401
Sponsored by Intercultural Center
She Se Puede is an event to learn from the experiences of Latina women from various career fields, including Medicine, Health Management, Law, Business, Non-Profit Work, Mechanical Engineering, and Marketing/Communications. There will also be opportunity to network more personally with each woman/field of your interest after the panel in a roundtable networking hour. While this event celebrates and uplifts Latina women, it is open to ALL and not exclusive to Latinas or women.
Monday, Mar. 23 | 2 – 3 PM| Kitchin Hall
Sponsored by University Counseling Center
This dialogue circle is designed to foster open conversation around sharing and receiving feedback, experiences of feeling undermined in academic or professional spaces, and strategies for building healthier relationships. While acknowledging those experiences, the primary focus centers on strengthening communication skills and learning how to grow beyond what has been said, whether harm was intentional or not. Participants will leave with practical tools to engage in more constructive, accountable, and growth-oriented dialogue.
Monday, Mar. 23 | 4:30 PM |Farrell Hall 256
Sponsored by Author Ericka Spardely
In this Women’s History Month fireside chat, Ericka Spradley, author of Unwilling: Refusing to Play a Game That Isn’t Mine, invites participants into a candid conversation about redefining leadership beyond endurance and over-performance. Together, we will examine how historical expectations still shape modern workplaces, why “doing everything right” often leads to exhaustion rather than equity, and what it means to lead in ways that protect both impact and well-being.
This conversation reframes leadership as choice—not sacrifice—and challenges women to design careers that work for them, not against them.
Monday, Mar. 23 | 5 – 7 PM | Intercultural Center, Benson 346
Sponsored by Intercultural Center & Campus Kitchen
Experience the art of pasta-making while engaging in thought-provoking conversations about women’s roles in culinary traditions. Learn essential techniques and share personal perspectives at this interactive Campus Kitchen workshop
Tuesday, Mar. 24 | 4 – 5 PM | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by The Chaplain’s Office
Join us to hear the lesser known story of the five powerful women and the role they played leading to the exodus from Egypt, the Passover Story.
Tuesday, Mar. 24 | 4:30 – 6:30 PM | Maya Angelou Lounge
Sponsored by Residence Life & Housing
Join us in Angelou Lobby for a letter writing event honoring the influential women in our lives & community.
Wednesday, Mar. 25 | 5:30 PM| Benson 409
Sponsored by Office of Civic and Community Engagement & Office of Wellbeing
A community dialogue unpacking “trad wife” culture and how gender norms shape dating, masculinity, work, and social life. Dinner rolls included!
Thursday, Mar. 26 | 1 – 3 PM | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by Women’s Center
Pop in anytime to make your own self care kit and learn all about self care! We will have supplies for making self care kits and a personalized journal, along with information on the origins of the self care movement and how you can take care of yourself this semester.
Thursday, Mar. 26 | 5 – 7 PM |Benson 4th floor
Sponsored by Intercultural Center & Africasa
An evening of women in film, highlighting women-driven narratives. Experience compelling storytelling that showcases the talent and creativity of women in cinema.
Monday, Mar. 30 | Noon – 2 PM | Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by Women’s Center
This program celebrates women and femme-identifying people as visionaries and dreamers, challenging traditional ideas of success and affirming their freedom to pursue joy, creativity, rest, and unconventional paths. Participants will create vision boards without limits to imagine futures rooted in authenticity, not just productivity or status.
Tuesday, Mar. 31 | Noon – 1:30 PM| Women’s Center, Benson 314A
Sponsored by Women’s Center
Join us for a lunch and book a discussion for “Why do we Stay” written by Stephanie Quayle to close out WHM. Contact the Women’s Center for a free copy of the book!