Being a Proud #IAmASororityWoman

Delta Gamma Fraternity’s “I Am A Sorority Woman” campaign is in full swing. This is the campaign’s third year and Delta Gamma hopes that the responses to the campaign can help address the stereotypes that are often associated with sorority women. Other GLOs are encouraging their members to join in the campaign. The campaign began August 1 and lasts the month. 

Sorority women (or fraternity women as the case may be, but the world knows us as sorority women), can make a statement on social media, either as a tweet, Facebook, Instagram post or video, or in a blog post (I added that, but that’s what I do here on this blog). Use the hashtag #IAmASororityWoman. Check out DG’s blog which highlights the #IAmASororityWoman posts. It’s at http://dganchors.blogspot.com/. 

The concept of the campaign was the brainchild of Delta Gamma chapter consultant Tallia Deljou during a 2013 meeting at the Delta Gamma Executive Offices. The campaign “challenges sorority women to think about the real intention of their membership and sisterhood, to show how they live those values day by day and to tell others how they create a culture of care around their loved ones.”

And just for fun, here are some past posts about notable sorority women.

Ten Authors Who Are Sorority Women (Hint – Caddie Woodlawn, Kinsey Millhone, Atticus Finch, Too), http://wp.me/p20I1i-1wp

Helen Marlowe, Tennis Champion, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Marine Captain, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1HE

“A Hot Pilot is Born” to “Hello Dolly” – a ΘΦΑ Life Well Lived, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Ha

Ten GLO Authors for Children’s Book Week, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Cb

Charlotte West (AΞΔ) and Lin Dunn (XΩ) to Enter Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Ft

Celebrating Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ΑΕΦ, and Mary Knight Wells Ashcroft,  ΓΦΒ!, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Mj

10 + 2 Sorority Women With Pulitzer Prizes, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1LE

Irvington, Indiana, and the Sad Story of Madge Oberholtzer, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1RY

R.I.P. Jerrie Mock, Phi Mu, the First Woman to Circumnavigate the World Alone, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1RL

Betty Buckley, ZTA, the Public Theater, and Sweeney Todd, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1QR

“Service in Common” on Memorial Day 2014,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-1De

The U.S. House of Representatives and the Sorority Women Who Have Served,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-1UR

Female U.S. Senators and Their Sorority Affiliation – 2014 Edition, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1UE

Jessie Wallace Hughan, Pacifist, Social Activist, and Alpha Omicron Pi Founder on AOPi’s 118th Birthday, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1Yg

About Dr. Joyce Brothers on Sigma Delta Tau’s Founders’ Day, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1xj

Ten Sorority Women From the Golden Age of Television, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1xM

Ten Amazing Sorority Women, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1sy

Sorority Women Writing Stories Whose Characters Are Sorority Women, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1tc

The Golden Globes and the Fraternity and Sorority Members Who Have Won Them, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1mU

On Sigma Kappa’s Birthday – a Wimbledon Champ Who Was National President, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1dm

For International Women’s Day, Another 10 Amazing NPC Women!, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1vi

Sigma Gamma Rho Founders’ Day and the Hattie McDaniel Cancer Awareness and Health Program,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-1dH

11/22/1963 in Dallas – The Three Wives, One a ΔΔΔ, and the Judge, a ΔΓ, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1em

Emmy Awards and the Sorority Women Who Have Won One or More,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-17T

Happy Founders’ Day, Kappa Delta and a Snippet about Olga Achtenhagen, the “Hiking Professor”, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1az

Edith Head, Delta Zeta’s 1968 Woman of the Year and Today’s Google Doodle Honoree, http://wp.me/p20I1i-1bI

Nellie A. Brown, Tri Delta and Pioneering Plant Pathologist, http://wp.me/p20I1i-16t

E. Jean Nelson Penfield, KKG, and Carrie Chapman Catt, ΠΒΦ, the Monmouth Duo of Suffragists, http://wp.me/p20I1i-c2

“Baconian Biliteral Cipher, on the Estate of Colonel Fabyon,” National Security, and a Fraternity Woman,   http://wp.me/p20I1i-Zy

The Tony Awards and the Sorority Women Who Have Won One,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-QP

Miss USA – Sorority Women Who Have Won the Title, http://wp.me/p20I1i-RC

Mary E. Gladwin, R.N., Winner of the Florence Nightingale Medal and a ΔΓ, http://wp.me/p20I1i-Ow

Fraternity Women Who Were Lawyers, 1867-1902 (When Women Could Not Vote!), http://wp.me/p20I1i-KD

Madelyn Pugh Davis, ΚΚΓ, and “I Love Lucy”, http://wp.me/p20I1i-Sl

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Settlement House Founder and Kappa Kappa Gamma,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-y2

Sorority Women Who Have Won Oscars at the Academy Awards, http://wp.me/p20I1i-Ez

The 100th Anniversary of the Suffrage Parade, Sorority Women, and a Guest Appearance by High School Student J. Edgar Hoover, http://wp.me/p20I1i-F4

Maria Leonard, Alpha Lambda Delta Founder and Illini Dean of Women, http://wp.me/p20I1i-y3

And There She Is – The List of Miss Americas Who Belong to Sororities, http://wp.me/p20I1i-zK

World War I “Hello Girls” Led by a Gamma Phi Beta, http://wp.me/p20I1i-t6

Doctors Who Wore Badges: Fraternity Women in Medicine 1867-1902,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-tF

Jane Marie Bancroft Robinson, Alpha Phi, Active in Deaconess Work, http://wp.me/p20I1i-es

Dr. May Agness Hopkins, Zeta Tau Alpha, http://wp.me/p20I1i-pj

NPC and NPHC Women Astronauts, http://wp.me/p20I1i-le

Anna Botsford Comstock, Mother of Nature Education and a Kappa Alpha Theta, http://wp.me/p20I1i-bP

Katharine L. Sharp, Library Science Pioneer and Kappa Kappa Gamma Grand President, http://wp.me/p20I1i-nq

Ivy Kellerman Reed, Ph.D., Tri Delta, Ardent Esperantist, http://wp.me/p20I1i-dj

Julia Morgan, Architect, Kappa Alpha Theta, http://wp.me/p20I1i-bY

Imogen Cunningham, Pi Phi Pioneering Photographer http://wp.me/p20I1i-eg

Ada Comstock Notestein, Delta Gamma,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-bR

Miss Keller, Iron Dean of Westhampton College, and Her Role in AAUW History, http://wp.me/p20I1i-fd http://wp.me/p20I1i-nN

Three female architects who designed chapter houses at Syracuse University, http://wp.me/p20I1i-8B

Alice Duer Miller, Kappa Kappa Gamma, http://wp.me/p20I1i-9C

Carrie Chapman Catt, Pi Beta Phi,  http://wp.me/p20I1i-4d

© Fran Becque, www.fraternityhistory.com, 2015. All rights reserved.  If  you enjoyed this post, please sign up for updates. Also follow me on twitter @GLOHistory and Pinterest www.pinterest.com/glohistory/