AACC students and faculty members are celebrating Women’s History Month with exhibits and events on campus.

One exhibit highlights the history of feminism while the other one showcases the art of women and gender-expansive artists.

In addition, AACC faculty and students will take a field trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art to view Amy Sherald: American Sublime on Friday, April 3. 

“It gives students an opportunity to sort of see themselves,” Sophie Reverdy, a co-coordinator of Women’s History Month, said. “[They] examine their own experiences [and] with the thing that they’re studying. I think that’s really cool.”

Another Women’s History Month event, Soapbox Sisters, on March 31, brings together students to read poems, speeches and stories by women authors throughout history. 

Every year during March, faculty members create events to commemorate the achievements  women.

This year’s event is coordinated by Reverdy, a librarian and Brittany Lamma, an computer information system professor.

“As a librarian, I think a lot about how information and knowledge is produced through how we record history,” Reverdy said, “and whose voices are left out of those activities … or have been left out of those activities in history.” 

Lamma said the month is to celebrate women who have “paved the way” for others.

“It’s cool to see all of the women-focused events around the arts and around the sciences, because sometimes we get overlooked in those areas,” Lamma said. “And it’s something I’m really passionate about.” 

Students said Women’s History Month helps them celebrate their role models. 

“We have come a long way from multiple decisions being made for us, and then us now being able to choose [to be] living our own lives,” Dayra Escobar-Aguirre, a first-year biology student, said. 

First-year business communications student Jennifer Aguilar-Santos agreed.

“I look up to my mom and everything she has sacrificed up till now so I think it’s important to celebrate things like that,” Aguilar-Santos said.