Join us for talks on practices of survival and care that catalyze political reimagining and action. This event seeks to raise awareness about sexual violence and to connect work against sexual and interpersonal violence to other political struggles.
AMITA SWADHIN (featured guest speaker) is a nationally recognized activist, storyteller, and educator dedicated to fighting interpersonal and institutional violence against young people, ending child sexual abuse, and helping survivors heal through their oral history project, Mirror Memoirs.
Roundtable Speakers:
GUISELA LATORRE (Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies) on Latinx/Chicanx public art and social justice
DKÉAMA ALEXIS (Black Queer & Intersectional Collective) on black trans resilience and survivorship
DANIEL RIVERS (American Indian Studies) on Native American queer relations
Moderator: JIAN NEO CHEN (English & Sexuality Studies)
This event has been organized by the Sexuality Studies Program at Ohio State and is free and open to the public. (Light refreshments and dessert will be provided.)
If you wish to request accommodations (ASL interpretation, CART captioning, etc.) or have questions about accessibility or other issues, please email chen.982@osu.edu. Denney Hall is wheelchair accessible.
Co-sponsors: Sexuality Studies Program, Department of English Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Native American Studies Program, Humanities Institute at OSU, The Women's Place
