Workshop on Combating Sexual Violence Against Animals

HDH Lab is organizing a Workshop on Combating Sexual Violence Against Animals on Sunday, 5 June, from 10:00 to 17:00. A minimum of 15 and a maximum of 25 people can take part in the interactive workshop, which will be held in classroom B 203 at Bahçeşehir University South Campus.

Those who wish to register should send an email tohakim.komite@gmail.com. Simply write that you would like to attend the workshop and include your full name. Once we receive your email, we will send you a very short form and ask you to fill it in to confirm.

You can find information about the workshop facilitators below; the workshop program is as follows.

Facilitators:
Fatma Biltekin graduated from the Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations at Kocaeli University in 2013. From 2011 to 2014, she worked to protect the rights of all animals, regardless of species, at the Freedom for the Earth Association (Yeryüzüne Özgürlük Derneği), founded to combat all forms of discrimination. Since 2014, she has continued her reporting, monitoring, content development and training work in the "Animal Rights Violations Report," "Speciesism and Animal Rights Workshops for Children" and "Speciesism and Animal Rights Workshops for Young People" projects of the Animal Rights Monitoring Committee, of which she is a founding member.

Özge Özgüner graduated from the Department of Communication at Kocaeli University. From 2010 to 2015, she was part of the working team of the Freedom for the Earth Association, of which she was a co-founder, and carried out work in the field of animal liberation. A founding member of the Association for Combating Sexual Violence, she writes, draws and leads workshops in the fields of queer rights, feminism and animal liberation. For the past year, she has been the coordinator of the Burak Özgüner Animal Rights Study Center (BurHak).