Violence Against Indigenous Womxn*: Sexism, Colonialism, and Health Equity

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Harmony Library
Community Room

Event Details

Sexism, Colonialism, and Health Equity The Community Equity Consortium in partnership with Colorado Trust invites you to attend its third Health Equity Learning Series presentation of 2018-19, featuring Taté Walker (they/them). When it comes to experiencing violence, Indigenous womxn* face extreme marginalization at the crossroads of several identities and social structures. The combination of identities and oppressions related to sex, gender and race, among other identity/social aspects, are deeply tied to and intensified by the history and ongoing impact of settler colonialism. This presentation by Taté Walker provides critical context to these and other violent realities from cultural, historical, systemic and gender-based viewpoints. You will come away with an understanding of the health inequities experienced by Indigenous womxn due to sexism and colonization, as well as strategies to demand and achieve justice for Indigenous womxn and their communities. Taté Walker is Lakota and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. They are a banner-waving Two Spirit feminist and Indigenous rights activist, and a published and award-winning storyteller for outlets like Native People’s Magazine, Everyday Feminism, Feminist Humanist Alliance, Indian Country Today and many more. Their work is also featured in the recently published anthology titled FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women (Nauset Press, 2018). Armed with a master’s degree in administrative science from the University of South Dakota, a bachelor’s degree in English-communications from Fort Lewis College, and black coffee(!), Taté uses their 15 years of experience working for daily newspapers, social justice organizations and tribal education systems to organize students and professionals around issues of critical cultural competency, anti-racism/anti-bias and inclusive community building. Find out more at www.jtatewalker.com and connect with them on Twitter at (@MissusTWalker). * "Womxn" is an intentionally-used alternative spelling that rejects patriarchy in language by removing "men" as the root of "women" and that proactively includes transgender womxn, female-assigned genderqueer/gender non-conforming people, as well as cisgender womxn. Lunch will be provided. Registered at 970-416-2212. Please let us know if you need childcare and for how many children
Event Type(s): Programs
Age Group(s): Adults

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