<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm emailing to let you know about an upcoming public talk that will be of interest to many of you. June 20, following Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region's Annual General Meeting, Jessica Yee will speak on "The Future of Choice." Yee, named one of the Toronto Star's 2010 People to Watch in the GTA, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">is the founder and Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. According to its website, the Network "is the first and only organization of its kind in North America by and for Indigenous youth working within the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health throughout the continent. [Yee] has spent more than half her life mobilizing individuals, families, and communities alike to reclaim their ancestral rights to self-determine decisions over their own bodies and spaces" (</span></font><a href="http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com/aboutourfounder.html">http://www.nativeyouthsexualhealth.com/aboutourfounder.html</a>)<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">.</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> Yee's talk will focus on the current state of reproductive rights in Canada, especially as it pertains to youth. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">The talk will be held June 20 at the First Unitarian Church of Waterloo at 299 Sydney Street, Kitchener. Admission to the talk is $10 or pay-what-you-can for the underwaged. Call 519-743-9360 (or email me) for tickets. (You can also purchase tickets at the door if there are enough left on the evening of the talk.) The PPWR AGM (to which you are also welcome) begins at 6:30 p.m. Yee's talk starts at 7:30. <br>
</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Please share this invitation with any colleagues who might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and best wishes,</div><div>Shannon Dea</div><div>-- <br>Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Philosophy<br>University of Waterloo<br>200 University Ave. W. <br>Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1<br>(519) 888-4567 (ext. 32778)<br>FAX (519) 746-3097<br>
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