Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Morey, Patricia L" <>]

We are having Zerlina Maxwell come on April 1!  

“Zerlina Maxwell is a political analyst and contributing writer for EBONY.com, Feministing.com, theGrio.com, BET.com, and RHRealitycheck.org.  She writes about national politics, candidates, and specific policy and culture issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, victim blaming and gender inequality…. She is also a weekly guest and fill in host for Make It Plain with Mark Thompson on Sirius XM Progress and democratic commentator on Fox News and MSNBC.  She has a law degree from Rutgers Law School | Newark and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University. Zerlina speaks at nonprofits, conferences, colleges, and universities about feminism, rape culture, race, and politics.”

Ms. Maxwell is known in part for her appearance on Fox News’ Hannity in March 2013, where she turned the tables on victim-blaming and stated that women should not have to purchase a gun, avoid wearing skirts, and the like to prevent rape, and that the responsibility ought to be on perpetrators to not rape. As a result, she received an onslaught of social media hate speech directed at her, including death threats. (More @: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/11/fox-news-guest-zerlina-maxwell-i-refuse-to-be-silenced-by-rape-threats/.)

Ms. Maxwell now uses her political expertise and experiences to provide education to others about how to dismantle rape culture. She also utilizes her experiences as an African-American woman and a survivor to illuminate many of these issues.

Best wishes!

 

Patricia L. Morey

Assistant Dean; Director

Women’s Resources Center

217.333.3137

www.go.illinois.edu/wrchttp://www.go.illinois.edu/wrc

 

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From: Marie Attis [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:41 AM
To:
Subject: SPEAKER

 

Hello All,

 

We’ve just received a small budget to fund a speaker for our Sexual Assault Awareness event on April 10^th.  We would love someone who is dynamic and engaging.  Preferably  they would be someone with experience with working with minority and extremely diverse groups. I’m hoping this group will lead me to someone awesome!

 

Marie-Danielle Attis, MPA

Coordinator of Health Promotion, Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence Services

Rutgers The State University- Newark Health Services

249 University Ave room 203/219

Newark, NJ 07102

Tel: (973) 353-1256  Fax: (973)353-1390

“Injustice anywhere, is a threat to Justice everywhere”  (Dr. Martin LutherKing Jr.)