
Consent: HIV Non-Disclosure and Sexual Assault Law (New York Screening)
Date and time
Description
Consent: HIV Non-Disclosure and Sexual Assault Law is a powerful new documentary on HIV criminalization. In their own words, eight women – leading feminist scholars, attorneys, and women living with HIV – shine a light on the problems of using sexual assault law to prosecute alleged non-disclosure of HIV. We will also include excerpts of the film Positive Women: Exposing Injustice. Panel discussion to follow.
Details
Date: Monday June 6th, 2016
Time: Reception at 5:30pm, screening at 6:30pm
Location: Cooper Union Frederick P. Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Sq
Free of charge, however registration is required.
Panelists
Moderator: Robert Suttle, Sero Project
-- Cecile Kazatchkine, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
-- Jessica Whitbread, International Community of Women Living with HIV
-- Maurine Murengua, International Community of Women Living with HIV
-- Marama Pala, INA (Māori, Indigenous & South Pacific) HIV/AIDS Foundation
Presented by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network with the Cooper Union and the WHAT WOULD AN HIV DOULA DO? collective.
Supported by the Elton John AIDS Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
For more information about the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, please visit www.aidslaw.ca.