Kingston WritersFest 2020 Virtual Festival: #MeToo – Reclaiming Women’s Power By Outing Rape Culture

The Kingston WritersFest 2020 virtual festival takes place September 23-27, 2020, with more than 60 writers in nearly 50 events over 5 days! The festival will include the stories of women, the stories of Indigenous writers, writers of different experiences, cultural backgrounds, and orientations.

#MeToo – Reclaiming Women’s Power by Outing Rape Culture: 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm on September 24th, 2020

In her review of Robyn Doolittle’s powerful book, Had It Coming, author Erin Wunker writes, “Now, after the watershed of #MeToo, where do we go and how might we get there?” Sexual harassment and rape culture are the realities that women face daily, and Robyn and fiction writer Danielle Younge-Ullman piece apart from the complex issues, the fallout of speaking up, and how collectively we can all use this moment in history to out and dismantle the systems of privilege that support rape culture and all inequitable and discriminatory systems. With Ying Lee.

Author patrons: Sara Arrowsmith, Robyn Doolittle; Book Clubs United, Danielle Younge-Ullman