{"id":23522,"date":"2020-10-15T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=23522"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T01:26:38","slug":"pride-culture-series-presents-ben-okeefe-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2020\/10\/15\/pride-culture-series-presents-ben-okeefe-oct-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride Culture Series presents Ben O’Keefe — Oct 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Join us for this inspiring, educational and powerful conversation with Ben O’Keefe as he discusses
\nThe Intersectionality of Pride: Embracing Our Complexities.<\/p>\n

A little about Ben\u2026he is a human rights activist, a respected voice in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, as well as a leader in the LGBTQ+ community. He is a sought-after speaker, often speaking on diversity and anti-racism, social justice, and conversations on LGBTQ equality and masculinity. His campaign work started at the age of 18 when he began the movement against clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch’s size-based discrimination, then continued to include the #TakeDownTheFlag campaign to remove the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Statehouse, Alicia Keys’ ‘Vote Love’ campaign and the viral campaign to save death row inmate Richard Glossip from execution.<\/p>\n

Ben is sure to inspire, provide hope, and educate. Don’t miss this event, REGISTER TODAY!<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Pride Culture Conference Series and upcoming events follow us @ufvpcc on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter!<\/p>\n

Tues, Oct 20
\n5-7 pm
\nonline – please register at<\/p>\n

https:\/\/connect.ufv.ca\/pride-conference<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, contact Sheila McKay at sheila.mckay@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

10\/21\/2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us for this inspiring, educational and powerful conversation with Ben O’Keefe as he discusses The Intersectionality of Pride: Embracing Our Complexities. A little about Ben\u2026he is a human rights activist, a respected voice in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, as well as a leader in the LGBTQ+ community. He is a sought-after speaker, often speaking on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23559,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23522\/revisions\/23559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}