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The power of accepting ourselves begins by accepting our bodies.

Sonya Renee Taylor is an author, poet, spoken word artist, speaker, humanitarian and social justice activist, educator, and founder of The Body is Not An Apology movement, an international movement and organization committed to radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. Sonya’s work as an award winning Performance Poet, activist and transformational leader continues to have global reach. Sonya is a former national and international poetry slam champion, author, educator and activist who has mesmerized audiences across the US, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands as well as in prisons, mental health treatment facilities, homeless shelters, universities, festivals and public schools across the globe.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Black Trans* Lives Matter | D-L Stewart | TEDxCSU

What would my life and the world look like if Black Trans* Lives mattered? Race, gender, social class, and disability all intersect to shape Black Trans* lives. How would social institutions, such as education, law, healthcare, religion, and family be different? Dr. Dafina-Lazarus (D-L) Stewart (he and they) is professor in the School of Education and Co-Coordinator of Student Affairs in Higher Education and affiliated faculty in the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at Colorado State University. Over the course of his 18-year faculty career, he has focused most intently on the history and philosophy of higher education, as well as institutional systems and structures that affect the postsecondary experiences, growth and development, as well as success of racially minoritized and queer and trans* students. D-L examines these topics through intersectional, critical, and poststructural frameworks that incorporate ableism, religious hegemony, and classism alongside racism, patriarchy, as well as anti-queer/trans antagonism. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across A Lifetime

- Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

I am concerned one of the leading causes of childhood adverse experiences is not mentioned in the adverse events children can suffer in accessing their ACE score. Unintentional injury (UI) is the leading cause of death and hospitalizations for California's children (CDC WISQARS, CA Dept of Public Health EPICenter data). In our state alone, CA, each year nearly 1,000 children die from unintentional injury, 24,000 are hospitalized, and another 400,000 are seen in our emergency rooms due UI. When I was the interim director of the CA Premature Infant Health Association I learned how racism impacts African American girls and women, and subtle and not-so-subtle racism they encounter every day impacted and triggered a much higher premature birth rate due to ACEs. When I was the gov affairs director for Prevent Child Abuse Assoc and on the Advisory Board of the CA Dept of Social Services Office of Child Abuse Prevention the life long impact abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse had on children. As one of the Co-Chairs of CA Unintentional Injury Prevention Strategic Plan Project we have learned about how the leading cause of UI injury - brain injury - impacts a child's entire life, the loss of a sibling to UI impacts the entire child's life. My question is why is unintentional injury not part of the ACE screening and presentation which is so important for all healthcare, public health, parents, youth, and safety prevention professionals to know about. The leading causes of death from UI in CA are vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle crashes, drowning, poisoning, infant and baby sleep suffocation, burns, residential building window falls, kids left in cars, children backed over in their driveway or a parking lot, sports related concussions, heat stroke. When a family, a parent loses a child due to UI it is life changing. When a child loses their brother or sister due to an unintentional injury it is life changing. UI should be on the ACEs accessment list. Thanks Steve Barrow, CCCSH