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Exploring Patriarchy and Sexual Harm: Impact, Accountability and Healing

July 19, 2022 / Community Leaders in Health Equity

Sonya Shah (she, her, hers) is a social justice educator who works to seed models of restorative justice and trauma healing in her community and across the United States. In 2016 she initiated the Ahimsa Collective, an organization that works to respond to harm in ways that foster wholeness for everyone. Her experiences as a survivor of child sexual abuse are critical in her analysis and approach to this work. In her talk, Shah spoke about types of sexual harm, their specific connections to sexism and patriarchy, and considered ways to address and heal this harm through restorative, transformative and healing justice.

The Body Is Not An Apology: The Impact of Sexism and Sizeism on Our Bodies and Health

October 6, 2021 / Community Leaders in Health Equity
Sonya Renee Taylor

Sonya Renee Taylor (she, her, hers) is an award-winning performance poet, activist and transformational leader, and author of The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love. In her talk, Taylor delves into an exploration of sizeism and fatphobia as well as patriarchy and sexism, side-by-side with other oppressions and considerations of health and health equity. This recording is part of Community Leaders in Health Equity in partnership with Transformative Alliances LLC.

Learn about the health equity issues affecting Coloradans at Collective Colorado, a publication of The Colorado Trust.