Beyond Consent: How Reclaiming Sexuality Combats Sexual Violence
| Date/Time: | Monday, 16 Apr 2012 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Diversity Lectures |
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As a college undergraduate, Jaclyn Friedman was a victim of sexual assault. The experience led her to become an instructor of IMPACT safety training and an advocate for safer communities for women everywhere. At IMPACT, she helped bring safety skills to the communities which most need them, including gang-involved high school student and women transitioning out of abusive relationships.
Her 2007 article "Drinking and Rape: Let's Wise Up About It" became a popular reference for new thinking about preventing rape without shaming or blaming women. It was also the inspiration for her book Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape.
Friedman is a founder and the Executive Director of Women, Action & the Media, a national organization working for gender justice in media. She also holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. She has been a guest on BBC World Have Your Say, Democracy Now!, To the Contrary and numerous other radio and television shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, The Nation, Jezebel, Feministing.com, The American Prospect, AlterNet and The Huffington Post. She is a SheSource expert and a Progressive Women's Voices alumna, and was named one of 2009's Top 40 Progressive Leaders Under 40 by the New Leaders Council.
Support for this program was provided in part by the U.S. Department of Justice Grant 2007-WA-AW-0015. Points of view contained within this program are those of the author, not the United States Department of Justice.