Title: In Search of Cross Movement Solidarity Against Sexual Stigma
Speakers: Professor Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, Women and Development Studies University of the Philippines

Date: April 24th (Fri.), 2015, 16:00 – 18:00
Place: Tonan-tei Room No. 201, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Abstract:
In 2013 I received an award from an international women’s group. The money could be used for whatever purposes I thought fit to further women’s empowerment. I used this award to start a dialogue with a group of sex workers, women who had undergone abortion, HIV positive women and LGBT. The purpose was to study stigma, but also to look into the difficulties and possibiities of cross movement solidarities. I would like to share some of the results of our conversations and some of the questions that arise from this.

About the speaker:
Sylvia Estrada-Claudio is a doctor of medicine who also holds a PhD in Psychology. She is a Professor of the Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines. She is author of the book, “Rape, Love and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse”. She is currently Vice President for Southeast Asia of the Asian Association for Women’s Studies. She also writes a regular column for the online social media and news organization, Rappler. She is also co-founder and Chair of the Board of Likhaan Center for Women’s Health. She is one of the many
advocates that fought for the passage of a Reproductive Health Law in the Philippines. She has also served on the Board of Directors of of international women’s organizations such as Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and ISIS International. She has been giving free services to women victims of violence and other women with special needs for more than two decades. Like most Filipinas, she is known to friends by a nickname, Guy. Guy has had a long history of working in the Philippine social movements beginning as a teenager in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship. She proudly identifies herself as an “engaged academic”.

Moderator: Hau Caroline, CSEAS, Kyoto University