Speaker Series

Spring 2024 will + WGSS Speaker Series

 

A Fireside Chat: Protecting Your Peace as a Change Agent

Wednesday, February 21, 5:30 pm
Camp Concert Hall
Register here.
Reception and book signing to follow.

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed psychologist, host and founder of the award-winning Therapy for Black Girls Podcast, and author of Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community. Named by Glamour as a Game Changer for her work in the field of mental health, she works at the intersections of psychology and pop culture. Dr. Sesha Joi Moon serves as the Chief Diversity Officer with the U.S. House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress. She previously served as the Chief Diversity Officer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In 2023, she was recognized by the National Organization of Blacks in Government as one of the “100 Most Influential People of African Descent.”

This Black History Month event is co-hosted by the Department of Psychology, the Student Center for Equity & Inclusion, will, the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, and Counseling and Psychological Services. Additional support provided by Africana Studies, the Cultural Affairs Committee, Health & Well-Being, the Robins School of Business, and the School of Arts and Sciences.

 

RIVER OF/AS CEREMONY: A Reading with Natalie Diaz

Followed by a conversation between Diaz and Julietta Singh, Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair in WGSS

Wednesday, February 28, Noon
Humanities Commons
Lunch provided.         

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012). She is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, Lambda Literary Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. Diaz teaches in the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program, where she holds the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry.

 

Afrosexology: Less Oppression, More Orgasms

Thursday, March 28, 7:30 pm
Alice Hayes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
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Join Afrosexology for a workshop entitled Less Oppression, More Orgasms. Afrosexology is a collective of sexuality liberators, sex educators, social workers, and speakers who curate spaces to empower people to live their most pleasurable lives. Afrosexology has traveled nationwide and internationally, engaging with over 100,000 people through community workshops, conferences, webinars, and social media. Afrosexology aims to educate, explore, and reclaim Black sexuality and promote Black self-empowerment through sexual liberation. In partnership with C.A.R.E. (Center for Awareness, Response &Education). This is the keynote workshop of PleasureFest 2024.

PleasureFest 2024 is an event series that builds sex-positivity and healthy relationships, increases tools for pleasure in a variety of forms, and promotes healing on our campus through self- and community-care. Comprehensive sex education rooted in consent and inclusivity is just one aspect of PleasureFest and a mutli-pronged approach to sexual violence prevention at UR.