Monday October 21, 1-2:30 pm
First Nations Longhouse, 1895 West Mall, UBC
Featuring:
- Jessica Danforth
Founder & Executive Director, Native Youth Sexual Health Network
The NYSHN is an organization for and by indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada. NYSHN are resistors of violence from the state, violence on the land, and violence on bodies. Restoration of knowledge, justice, and ways to be safer in communities is critical to their work.
And yes, resistance is sexy!
- Ronnie Dean Harris
Ronnie is a St?:lo/St’át’imc multimedia artist based in Vancouver, B.C. In the past years he’s worked along side many amazing people on equally amazing projects. Most prominently as an actor and composer for APTN/Showcase dramatic series “Moccasin Flats.” Ron has performed in numerous festivals and has opened for acts including Guru, K’naan, Abstract Rude and Snoop Dogg to name a few. In the last 10 years Ronnie has also been active in facilitating and crating workshop programs for youth empowerment in media arts and hip-hop.
- Jerilyn Webster
Jerilyn is a Vancouver based female hip-hop artist, beat-boxer, performing artist, aboriginal educator, single mother, award-winning actor, and member of the Nuxalk and Cayauga Nations who is “using [her] words to go upwards/not backwards.” She is an Idle No More organizer.