'Social justice fest' promotes sex work advocacy, boycotting Wendy's
Brandeis University will host a week-long series of social justice events, including ones led by "advocates for sex workers" and ones informing students how they can support a boycott of Wendy's.
The "DEIS IMPACT Festival of Social Justice," run by Brandeis' Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), starts Sunday and continues through Feb. 9. It consists of dozens of individual events with social justice themes.
"Students can hear from activists working for the support and de-stigmatization of sex work and understand why centering the voices of sex workers is far more important than de-legitimizing and criminalizing their work."
Campus Reform spoke with ODEI representative Jonathan Kroll about the Massachusetts school's function.
Kroll explained that the festival has occurred annually for the past seven years, but that 2019 marks the first festival run by the ODEI. There are over 50 events during the week and each event is organized, funded, and run by individual groups on campus: departments, faculty members, student clubs, etc. The 2019 theme is "What is Social Justice?: Consciously Exploring Oppression, Power, and Privilege in our Communities."
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