Word in from Healthy Kids Rhode Island
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Shelby Knox, a feminist advocate for comprehensive sex education, will be speaking at Brown University on October 20th at 7:30 pm in MacMillan 117. As a high school student, she fought for sexual education in her Texas hometown, which was chronicled in the documentary, The Education of Shelby Knox. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a full time speaker and organizer working with progressive organizations to promote sex education, women’s rights, and youth empowerment. Knox blogs on feminism and sexual health for the Huffington Post and contributes to the feminist quarterly, The F-Word. Only 24 years old, she is included in Forbes.com’s “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter” and the Women’s Media center’s “30 Women Making History.”
Free and open to public, 7:30 pm, Wednesday, October 20th, Macmillan 117 off of Thayer Street, Brown University