Spoken Word Workshop: Choosing Our Words

As people who experience forms of gender oppression and gender violence, we are well practiced at choosing our words in any given situation. We bite our tongue. Push our anger down. Smile and grit our teeth. We know how to be polite when saying ‘no’. In hopes of being left alone. Being safe. Being ourselves. Choosing Our Words offers a space to share our truths through spoken word. This 3-hour workshop will focus on the importance of our voices and the challenges we face in speaking up and speaking out. To register: http://ucalgary.ca/women/SpokenWords **This workshop is open to woman-identified and non-binary individuals. **Space is limited. Registration priority goes to the University of Calgary students.

Location:

Women’s Resource Centre – MacEwan Student Centre 482

Speaker:

Kym Nacita is a spoken word artist, workshop facilitator, and emotional mess. She is a fat femme of colour, from the Philippines by way of Toronto, who experiences the world at multiple intersections of oppression and privilege. She is also a Scorpio, with all the beauty and doom the stars will allow.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/spoken-word-workshop-choosing-our-words