UPCOMING EVENTS  

Jan 2, 2025- Thursday, 1:00 pm

The Spirituality Group will meet at the home of Cheryl Slack, 2430 Allison Circle.  Please notify hostess if you are unable to attend.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 –  10 a.m.-  GIRL REPORT/GIRLS TO WOMEN/BRUNCH

Community Foundation Building, 1401 Calumet Ave., Valparaiso 

The Indiana Girl Report states that Indiana girls are in a state of crisis.  To learn more and look for possible ways to help, members and guests will meet at the PCCF to learn about the Indiana Girl Report from Susan Stuart and then hear about the Girls to Women mentoring program here in Porter County.  The program will be followed by a brunch by Suzie’s  

Thursday, January 9, 2025 via Zoom – Four Daughters

Leader:  Carla Banks

A 2023 Tunisian Arabic documentary/drama is the story of Olfa Hamrouni, who his two eldest daughters were radicalized by Islamic extremist. This is a documentary unlike any other. It weaves  a heartbreaking narrative around Olfa Hamrouni, a mother grappling with a loss of her two eldest daughters to Islamic extremism. Throughout the film, the visual impact is carefully and beautifully composed: the story messy and disturbing. It was nominated for best international film at the Academy Awards. Available Netflix and Kanopy.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 – 6:30 p.m. – All member business meeting via Zoom

January 28, 2025 – 6:30 pm via Zoom only – Unwell Women:  Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn

Leaders: Susan Stuart and Ann Ruggaber 

As our state and local public policy selection on women’s health, Cleghorn’s book is an introduction to the relationship between women and the practice of medicine. Other books address, how governments serve women’s health, but this is an eye-opening account of how women have to battle to be treated. The book traces the most unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women, packed with character studies, and case histories of those who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy – and the men who controlled their fate. From the “wandering womb” of Ancient Greece to the rise of the witch trials through Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult- to -diagnosed disorders to to first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, menopause, and conditions like endometriosis, Unwell Women  examines the relationship of women to illness and medicine.