We’re AVP
We’re committed to addressing and ending gender-based violence on campus and beyond. We work to provide anti-oppressive and sex-positive services, advocacy and action on-campus and off. Get involved!
Consent workshops
Our consent workshops run at least once a month from September to April. The workshop is two hours long and will be held at the University of Victoria. They are free of charge, open to students and community members, and have a no late-comer policy.
Consent Workshops
Supporting a Survivor workshops
Our support workshops run at least once a month from September to April. The workshop is two hours long and will be held at the University of Victoria. They are free of charge, open to students and community members, and have a no late-comer policy. We recommend that folks interested in this workshop first attend our consent workshop, as many of the ideas in this workshop build on ideas we explored in the consent workshop.
Support Workshops
Men’s Circle at UVic
The Men’s Circle at UVic aims to challenge gender-based violence and dominant constructions of masculinity. These gatherings are open to all men and masculine identified people (not just students!) so come and bring a friend or two!
Men’s Circle
Ending gender based violence
The Anti.Violence.Project (AVP) is committed to addressing and ending gender-based violence on campus and beyond.
Services offered by AVP
Prevention. Support. Action.
We strive to provide anti-oppressive and sex-positive services, advocacy and action on-campus and off to people of all genders, in partnership and collaboration, in order to address and resist gender-based and all forms of violence.
UVic men’s circle
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We’re looking for folks to talk back at us about our work, consent training, Sexualized Violence Awareness Week, Let’s get consensual, and the Rethinking Masculinity campaign.
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Dispatches from our blog
There are quite a few ways to get in touch with us. We're available on Twitter and Instagram for social stuff. We're also on Facebook now and then. We're also happy when folks fill out our feedback form...
Another semester is done and we want to con-grad-ulate everyone for all their accomplishments whether you graduated or not, whether you remained in classes, dropped out, or took some time...
This past October, AVP was invited by The House of Commons’ Standing Committee on the Status of Women to be part of their study on Violence Against Young Girls and Women specifically in relation to campus violence. Kenya and Paloma reflect on their experience presenting to the committee in Ottawa.
Catcalling is part of rape culture. This means it's also connected to power and privilege and cisnormativity...
We had a semester of meet-ups as the Men's Circle at UVic and it was fantastic. Thanks AVP. Here's a few thoughts and reflections...
We've been asked by a community member to respond to the increase in conversations on campus about white supremacy resulting from a wall that's been erected at the Student Union Bldg that reads, "How do you challenge white supremacy?". While these conversations about naming and challenging white supremacy are crucial ...
What are we teaching children, in the the tiny everyday moments when we disregard their personal boundaries and what about the cats that we love...
Hey there! My name’s Dez. I’m a third year Social Work Student studying at UVIC. I am currently a practicum student working at AVP this semester and could not be...
All Indigenous and People of Colour (IPOC) have something in common: the destruction of our land, culture, and people. In addition, IPOC bodies are stigmatized through practices of Othering and...
AVP Education Coordinator - Amended 2016-01-29 (1) ** All applications must be submitted to alma@uvic.ca or dropped off at the General Office at the Student Union Bldg UVic. Applications sent...
By defining violence as elsewhere, as "out there", we frame our own lives and communities as innocent and good. This move to innocence is a problem because it enables us to ignore the local struggles and violence occurring within our own...
We had our first Unlearning White Supremacy discussion group and there were really a lot of people who all showed up to discuss how we can resist white supremacy culture. Here is a bit of an overview of ...
In class, people speak of my life in these abstract concepts, letting hundreds of years’ worth of violence casually slip off of their tongues. I don’t want an apathetic discussion, I want to be heard…
Join us on Thursday January 26th to make art, be in community, and help stock up our button supplies - come for five minutes or stay for two hours...
An organization with the mandate for enforcement and surveillance has no place expanding its domain to attempt to do mental health support work. These jobs are incompatible. There are hard working and caring...
We're starting up a new discussion group and learning opportunity. Join us this semester, starting Tuesday, to have a facilitated...
Join us on Wednesday, January 18th, for our first Men's Circle meeting of 2017 so we can re-introduce ourselves and prepare for all of our new...
Wow, a whole semester is gone by again. We've been so busy that it's been hard to make public what we've been up to. Now that D-ease-cember is here and...
