This Thursday, we will be hosting the speak out portion of the event via zoom. Please register for the event in advance here. The event will begin at 7:00 pm and will end at approximately 9:00 pm. This portion of the event is intended for healing and raising awareness by implementing the theory of thought that the personal is political.

This year, we have invited Dr. Melinda Brennan as our keynote speaker. Dr. Melinda Brennan is the Assistant Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She earned her doctorate in Gender Studies from Indiana University and her MA and BA from UWM. Her transdisciplinary work operates at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race, focusing on anti-violence activism, violence related to hate and power, and how people experience community across dissimilarly situated differences. As a scholar and educator of the margins and on the margins, she works to increase inter-group community and activism. At thespeak out, Dr. Melinda Brennan will present, and then there will be space for survivors/victims/and allies to speak out about the sexual assault epidemic and/or share part of their story.

Please join as passionate activists and victim/survivors from our campus community come together to stand against sexual violence and end the silence surrounding sexual assault at UWM.

If you need any additional support and/or resources during TBTN, please reach out to Stephanie Collins, the Confidential Victim Advocate at UWM (victimadvocacy@uwm.edu) who will also be at the event.