Women's Activism Workshop with Shelby Knox

Please join Shelby Knox, itinerant feminist organizer and Director of Women’s Rights Organizing at Change.org, this Sunday, April 7th, for a 1pm workshop and 7pm lecture.
 
Shelby Knox is nationally known as the subject of the Sundance award-winning film, The Education of Shelby Knox, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her Southern Baptist community. She has appeared on Today, the Daily Show, Hardball, and sat down with both Dr. Phil and Al Franken to discuss sex education and youth activism. Shelby travels across the country doing trainings, workshops and civil disobedience in the name of reproductive justice and sexual health. Currently she is working on a book about the next generation of feminist activism and plotting the revolution via Twitter, handle @ShelbyKnox.
 
WORKSHOP: Gender Justice and Activism at Colby
What resources do students feel are important for female, genderqueer, and queer students? What resources do students feel they have and what do they wish for? Identifying solutions and actions.

Please note change of venue and time:
Education Seminar Room, Diamond 123:  1:00-3:00PM.  Limited to 20.  Reserve your spot by emailing Cassie at cclemmer@colby.edu
 
 
LECTURE : Rihanna, Steubenville, and Jovan Belcher: Facing Our Culture of Violence

Contextualizing gender justice by examining how our culture enacts and responds to domestic and sexual violence and how it manifests in colleges.

OSTROVE:  7pm

Sponsored by WGSS, IDS, Goldfarb, Education, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and the GSD Program