Speaking truth to power

Jessica Yee speaks at an event tonight. Make sure you check that shit out. She’s pretty fierce and has already done tons, like found the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (she’s, like, in her 20s).

Indigenous Youth Speak Out: Conversations with
Grassroots Activists Jessica Yee & Melissa Elliott
.

Here she is speaking at an AGM earlier in the year…

Co-presented by QPIRG Concordia &
the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy

Part of QPIRG’s
“DisOrientation: An Alternative Side of Student Life”: http://www.qpirgconcordia.org/disorientation
& the 2110
Centre’s “Too Cool for School”: http://www.centre2110.org/2110/too-cool-for-school

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