[Wamvan] Rape Culture: A Year in Review event this Thurs

[Jarrah]

Hi folks,

Just letting you know about this free event coming up on Thursday at The
Gallery (UBC SUB) at 6 p.m.. Hope to see some of you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/260282587461804/

Here's the event description:

Should we change how we talk about sexual assault in the media?

In October, more than 200 students marched in a “Take Back the Night” rally
to protest the recent wave of sexual assaults on campus. The goal of this
event was also to highlight a culture of sexual violence on campus.

>From M&M commercials to frosh-week rape chants sung on Canadian university
campuses, are we living in a society that normalizes and condones rape? How
can we address situations in the media and society that perpetuates
rape culture?


As part of UBC Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), The AMS Sexual
Assault Support Centre (SASC) and the Terry Project are hosting a BARtalk
that will review the topic of campus rape culture, including a review of
our own UBC campus.

Our expert panel will include:

** Lucia Lorenzi is a 4th-year PhD candidate in English at UBC. She’s
currently working on her dissertation, which focuses on the aesthetics and
politics of silence in narratives of sexual violence. (@empathywarrior)

** Jarrah Hodge is the author of the award-winning feminist blog Gender
Focus.com and writes about gender, politics and labour issues. She has also
written blog series for Bitch Magazine and the Vancouver Observer.
(@jarrahpenguin)

** Ashley Bentley is the Assistant Manager of the AMS Sexual Assault
Support Centre (SASC) and holds a BA in Media and Cultural Studies.

** Rachel Sullivan is a professor of sociology at UBC, and draws on social
places and community relations to address sexuality and gender issues.



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Jarrah Hodge
@jarrahpenguin
http://gender-focus.com
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