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Women's Awareness Month Kickoff and Keynote Address
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History, technology and society; Women's Awareness
Month (WAM); and the Women's Resource Center host writer, performer and
activist Jaclyn Friedman, who will deliver a keynote for the kickoff of WAM.
Friedman will give a lecture entitled, "Yes Means Yes: How Healing the
Sexual Culture Can Help Stop Rape." Friedman is editor of "Yes Means
Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape" and a
founder and executive director of Women, Action & the Media, a national
organization working for gender justice in media. Friedman holds an MFA in
creative writing from Emerson College and writes a weekly column on pop
culture, sexuality and sexual violence for Amplify
Your Voice, a site devoted to promoting healthy sexuality for young
people.
About Women's Awareness Month:
In 1997, Jennifer Orr, the
president of the Georgia Tech Women's Student Union, began Women's Awareness
Week, a week of programming to increase awareness of women's issues at Georgia
Tech. Since then, Women's Awareness Week has developed into Women's Awareness
Month, which brings female role models to the Georgia Tech campus and develops
programs that provoke questioning about and the discussion of women's issues
and women's roles in society.
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- Workflow Status: Published
- Created By: Amy D'Unger
- Created: 02/15/2011
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016
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