Join us for a day of self-advocacy as we explore strategies to defend our physical and emotional personhood hosted by erin Khuê Ninh, Empowerment Self Defense instructor and a Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
ESD teaches a set of skills based in social justice and intersectional embodiment aimed to protect people from the harms of harassment, violation, and assault. Learn verbal and physical techniques drawing from a tradition of feminist social analysis. We will review how to set boundaries and identify spatial relationships and body language. We will explore verbal responses and bystander intervention techniques to address dangerous situations. Please dress for comfort and movement! erin Khuê Ninh’s research centers on the model minority not as myth, but as racialization and identity. Throughlines in her writing and teaching are the subtleties of power, harm, and subject formation, whether in the contexts of terror and war, family and immigration, or gendering and rape culture.
