Social Justice @UBC Lecture Event: Indigenous Pedagogies Social Justice

Monday October 21, 1-2:30 pm - Snacks provided!
First Nations Longhouse, UBC
1895 West Mall

Resistance to Norms: Listening to Youth Indigenous Voices 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'=E1t'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.

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