in media.
selected videos, interviews, and articles
Video: Race, Solidarity, and Allyship: Embracing Our Black LGBTQ+ Siblings
The African-American Resource Center and the LGBTQ Center at Penn host this panel addressing the need of LGBTQ+ allyship within African American communities. This event brings together prominent Black and queer figures within the Penn and Philadelphia community to share their experience, knowledge, and wisdom on how we as a Black community can be in solidarity and stand with queer folks, especially our youth.
Video: Systems of Violence and Our Urgent Interventions
This lecture seeks to identify and define violence, understand its prevalence and impact across racial and gender identity, and its interconnectedness across scale. We discuss the unique ways that violence, and specifically identity-based violence, is embedded and sustained within American culture, and how responses in our personal lives and professional roles can impart meaningful interventions.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Anti-Racism Lecture Series
Video: Men of Code on ESPN’s Outside the Lines
Through high school sports, the Men of Code program engages young men and coaches to be allies in the movement to end intimate partner violence against women and girls. Outside the Lines featured the program, led by Becky’s Fund, in action at Friendship Collegiate High School in Washington, D.C.
on air.
Radio: How Should We Be Talking About Sex?, NPR Tell Me More with Michel Martin
Radio: Confronting Sexual Assault and Rape Culture, WYPR
Radio: My Brother's Keeper in the Community- Hopes and Aims at Ground Level, NPR All Things Considered
in print.
Profile: U. appoints Malik Washington as new Penn Violence Prevention director, Daily Pennsylvanian
Article: Ray Rice, hacked photos scandals show a need for a different view on masculinity, The Washington Post
Profile: A passion for change, Observer-Reporter
in conversation.
Yvonne Orji
Keke Palmer
Terry Crews
Salahmishah Tillet and Scheherazade Tillet