{"id":6161,"date":"2022-03-11T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/?p=6161"},"modified":"2022-03-11T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:22:39","slug":"gems-celebrate-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/gems-celebrate-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"GEMS Celebrate International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Tuesday, March 8, participants in YWCA Cortland\u2019s GEMS (Girls: Empowered, Motivated,\u00a0\u00a0 Successful) group mentoring program celebrated International Women\u2019s Day. They reviewed the article \u201c50 Inspirational Quotes by Powerful Women in History<\/a>\u201d from the website mymodernmet.com and discussed what the quotes meant to them. The young women also created art to express what they learned. Click on the images to open the art in a new window.<\/p>\n

Please watch for info coming soon about an art installation the GEMS are preparing for the back hall gallery: Natural Hair and Headpiece Discrimination. The young women, ages 12-18, have been learning about these topics during Black History Month and Women\u2019s History Month and are now creating the artwork for the gallery display.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, March 8, participants in YWCA Cortland\u2019s GEMS (Girls: Empowered, Motivated,\u00a0\u00a0 Successful) group mentoring program celebrated International Women\u2019s Day. They reviewed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-general","category-recent-news","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6161\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cortlandywca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}