RSVP for this MIT Reads virtual small group discussion. Open to all.

Listed as one of NPR’s ‘best books of 2020’, Sexual Citizens is rich with the testimonies of over 150 Columbia students who participated in the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT). With empathy and compassion for the many struggles that young people face, authors Jennifer Hirsch (Columbia Univ.) and Shamus Khan (Princeton) approach sexual assault as a public health problem and explain it by setting out a broader understanding of how sex is organized, what it means to young people in college, and how members of a campus community can address these issues. 

 Sexual Citizens was chosen in partnership with the Undergraduate Association Student Support and Wellness Committee and the Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office. 

These events are co-sponsored by the Institute Discrimination and Harassment Office; Violence Prevention and Response; PLEASURE@MIT; the MIT Libraries; Women’s and Gender Studies; the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation; the Undergraduate Association; the Graduate Student Council; and Mind Hand Heart.