Interview with Sandeep Prasad – Executive Director, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/05/30
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did you get interested in sexual and reproductive health and rights?
Sandeep Prasad: That is a good question. I grew up in an Indian household. I went to an Anglican school, where the sex-ed that I received was very basic. It was really focused on anatomy and risk. Later in my adolescence, while still in high school, I discovered that I had same-sex attractions.
I came out, myself, as queer. In university, I heavily involved in LGBT organizing on campus during my undergrad. I realized that in that time that I wanted to do professional work related to human rights and sexuality. Of course, law school seemed like a good place to go next after my undergrad. I went to law school in Ottawa. I got involved in this work. The thing is, once you start experiencing and exploring and issue and feel impacted by them, you see the interactions with other issues.
Whether it is same-sex sexuality, abortion rights, and so on, all link to basically the right to bodily autonomy. I was able to work after law school on these issues, luckily. I started my career and have been working globally and domestically, in Canada.
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