Taking down Rape Culture with Laci Green

One in four female students and one in six male students are sexually violated while earning their degree. For other marginalized groups, the statistics are even more grim. In this program, we take an in-depth look at our culture’s attitudes and responses to sexual violence. Using pop culture examples, videos, and discussion questions, this program illuminates the problem and helps bring it to a halt. This event is part of the Women’s Resource Centre and Consent Awareness and Sexual Education Club’s Sexual Assault Prevention Project – Creating a Culture of Consent. This is a Quality Money Project, brought to you by the Students’ Union. For more information visit the Women’s Resource Centre website or Facebook event page.
Location:
Energy Environment Experiental Learning Building
Speaker:
Laci Green is a 25-year-old web personality, public speaker, and activist from San Francisco. She is best known as the host and creator of the internet’s most popular sex education show, called “Sex Plus”. Sex+ seeks to start a fresh conversation about sexuality that is fun and educational. The show currently reaches 5 million young adults every month in over 125 countries. In 2011, Green graduated with highest honors from UC Berkeley and she currently holds a certificate in rape and dating violence crisis counseling. Throughout college, she taught for-credit sex education classes to at-risk high school students and students at UC Berkeley. In addition to her work on Sex+, she is an educator and consultant for Planned Parenthood, Discovery, and MTV Act. Her work has been featured on CBC, ABC, Dr. Phil, The Science Channel, The Atlantic Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The Huffington Post, Upworthy, and more.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/taking-down-rape-culture-laci-green