Grad Students ‘Welcome’* Fair

We will be tabling at the Grad Students ‘Welcome’* Fair. We have safer sex supplies, stickers, colouring pages, buttons, zines, and volunteer applications. Come find us by the fountain at UVic!

*Note: the word “welcome” has a specific meaning in the context of colonization and settlers’ presumed entitlement to Indigenous lands, bodies, and cultures. Many Indigenous peoples have processes to welcome and greet visitors and so the word has particular colonial implications when visitors (especially settlers) say “welcome” to territories that aren’t ours to welcome people to. As part of AVP working to learn and unlearn we are seeking to be more aware of how we use language, and encourage other people who are not from local nations to also be aware of this. When other mixed organizations use “welcome” in the title of an event that we are participating in, we will put it in quotation marks and include an explanation of some of the issues around how this word is used.