Begin by Listening: Sexual Violence Student Activism Symposium
Nov 4, 2021 to Nov 5, 2021
6:00PM to 1:30PM
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Date(s) - 04/11/2021 - 05/11/2021
6:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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The Ontario University Sexual Violence Network is excited to announce the first annual Begin by Listening: Sexual Violence Student Activism Symposium to be held virtually on November 5, 2021, with a panel event taking place in the evening of November 4, 2021.
This virtual symposium will feature outstanding student (graduate and undergraduate) research, art, activism and advocacy on sexual violence and consent culture. It is being hosted by universities across Ontario.
Lydia Collins – Keynote Speaker
Lydia Collins is a writer and sexual health educator with a focus on HIV prevention in African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities, and decolonial consent education. Lydia is the author of three self-published chapbooks of poetry. She released Angry. Black. Woman. in January 2019, To Everyone We’ve Ever Been, in September 2020, and In Transit in February 2021. Her writing style is somewhere between Toni Morrison and Tupac; blending artistic genres of literature and music to express herself. Lydia pulls much inspiration from Maya Angelou, Roxane Gay, Kiese Laymon, Claudia Rankine, Damon Young, and Michaela Angela Davis.
Her writing has been equally shaped by some of her favourite musical geniuses including Wu-Tang Clan, Jimi Hendrix, Mereba, Bikini Kill, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, and Crime Mob’s hit anthem Knuck If You Buck.