I Need IX: A Civil Rights Framework for Ending Gender-Based Violence
Students and activists are using Title IX to fight gender-based violence and create paths for justice and healing within a civil rights framework, beyond a criminal legal system that often harms (rather than works for) survivors. This workshop will explore the transformative nature of Title IX activism within anti-violence and reproductive justice movements — and how Title IX rights are under threat. As a group, we’ll explore how and why a civil rights approach to ending violence is necessary and distinct from a criminal legal approach, analyze the current legislative landscape, and envision a civil right to be free from violence.
Mahroh Jahangiri and Zoe Ridolfi-Starr are the Deputy Directors of Know Your IX, a national survivor-run, student-driven campaign to end campus sexual violence. Before joining KYIX, Mahroh was a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mahroh’s previous research on immigration detention in Washington, DC and work in Cairo, Egypt has focused on the ways in which American militarization, racism, and sexual violence impact non-white communities transnationally. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Mahroh lives and organizes in DC and is a columnist for Feministing.com.
Zoe is a co-founder of Carry That Weight, which merged with Know Your IX in July 2015. As a second generation queer woman and a survivor of sexual violence herself, Zoe is committed to centering the voices of survivors and people of marginalized identity in anti-violence work, and building community-based solutions to sexual violence that do not rely on inherently violent institutions like the prison-industrial complex. Zoe enjoys searching for the best dumplings in NYC.
Co-sponsored by Office of Dean of Students
*For Scripps Students Only