Students will have the chance to attend workshops and panel discussions surrounding the topic of sexual education and health during Citrus’ annual Sex 101 Week beginning April 9 and ending April 13 in the Campus Center mall.
Key focuses of the event will include sexual safety, consent and how to combat misconduct.
“We try to inform our students about sexual harassment, about Title IX, which a lot of students don’t really know,” Rosario Garcia, Citrus’ student life supervisor and ASCC co-adviser, said.
Outside resources will be brought onto campus as contributions to the event.
“We have the L.A. County Dept. of Public Health,” Garcia said. “They’re going to be setting up a table on April 12 to give information to students on the services they provide and how they can request those services.”
Garcia said Planned Parenthood will be hosting a “very informative” workshop about “affirmative consent,” which will happen from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. on April 9 in ED-170. “They even give examples,” she said, and “advice of what to do and what not to do” regarding consent.
Project Sister, an agency dedicated to supporting survivors and victims of sexual assault, will also be tabling the event with information on April 9 and 11.
The #MeToo movement will also be a focal point at the event, and a panel discussion on the topic will take place on April 10.
“(Sex 101 week is) in April because April is the Sexual Assault Awareness month and it goes hand in hand with our topic,” Garcia said.
Additionally, a panel discussion on the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements will be held on April 10 at 3 p.m., and a screening of the documentary film, “Hunting Ground” will be held on April 11 at 1 p.m.
After last year’s low attendance at Sex 101 Week, Garcia said she is “hoping that students actually do attend. Because, again, this is for them — to help them.”
Garcia said that although the event is primarily about education, the organizers “try to do something different where students might want to go and actually see the event.”
Garcia and Citrus’ Student Life and Leadership department organized this year’s event, which is a continuation of an ongoing tradition of sexual education on Citrus College’s campus.
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