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*Funding made possible through a special grant from the Ministry of Education, Aboriginal Education Office.
The Greater Essex County District School Board’s Diversity Office is supporting the Tenth Annual University of Windsor Women’s Studies Community Dinner featuring the Distinguished Visitor 2010 Jessica Yee.
JESSICA YEE
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Can We Talk? Sex Ed for the 21st Century: A Young Feminist’s Perspective
Jessica Yee describes herself as a “multiracial Indigenous hip-hop feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter.” The 25 year-old activist has been working with women’s organizations for half of her life, and is internationally recognized as a leader on cultural competency, anti-racism initiatives, and sexual health.
Yee finds inspiration in the everyday activists she meets. She notes that you don’t have to be at a rally with a picket sign to be an activist; rather, she learns from “activists at home.” “If they’re in their home community where they’re dealing with the most horrendous realities, and living with the effects of colonialism for example, in every sense of the word, their activism is just by living, just by surviving,” she says. “That gives me a lot of fire.”
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