October 22, 2015 - The Fresno City College Speakers Forum presents Jaclyn Friedman, writer, performer and activist whose work has popularized the “yes means yes” standard of sexual consent that is quickly becoming law on many US campuses, including in California. Jaclyn will speak on Tuesday, November 3 at 11 a.m. in the Old Administration Building Auditorium. Admission is free. A book signing and reception will follow.
Friedman’s hit book, Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape was included on Publishers’ Weekly’s Top 100 Books of 2009 list, and is #11 on Ms. Magazine’s Top 100 Feminist Nonfiction of All Time list. Her second book, What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety, was a finalist for ForeWord’s Book of the Year Award in Women’s Issues.
Jaclyn has helped redefine the concept of “healthy sexuality,” with two landmark pieces: the interview, “F*cking While Feminist” and the highly personal polemic “My Sluthood, Myself,” which together inspired thousands of responses and explorations across the blogosphere and beyond. Jaclyn’s insistence that authentic sexual liberation is a necessary condition to end the systemic sexualization and violation of women led Lyn Mikel Brown, a community activist from Colby College, to call her “this generation’s version of Dr. Ruth.”
About the Speakers Forum: The Fresno City College Speakers Forum brings local, national and international speakers to the college to promote increased understanding of academic, political and social issues that impact our students, faculty, staff and the community at large.
For more information about Speakers Forum go online to www.fresnocitycollege.edu/speakersforum or call the Public Information Office at (559) 489-2218.
Source: Fresno City College
