Video: May? I Workshop
The May I? Project is a coalition of food service workers, frontline sexualized violence responders, educators, and workers rights advocates working towards the common goal of addressing and preventing sexualized violence in the restaurant and bar industry. This is a recording of an interactive workshop created by and for current and former service industry workers to helps build skills in addressing and dismantling rape culture in the service industry through break-out scenario based activities, group work, information on employee rights, consent and bystander intervention. We invite to join us for this workshop. For privacy reasons, break out activities and the final question period are not included in this recording.
CN: This workshop does name forms of violence experienced in the restaurant and bar industry, however specific or graphic details are not discussed. Please feel free to check out our support services or reach out to support [at] antiviolenceproject [dot] org.
This workshop facilitated by Robin, Sarah and Kenya was recorded live in April 2021 as part of the (Un)Learning Together community workshop series organized by the Anti-Violence Project. To access workshop resources or to make inquiries please contact education [at] antiviolenceproject [dot] org
Facilitators
Robin Gordon (she/her) – Robin has been a volunteer support worker and workshop facilitator with the Anti Violence Project since 2016. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Linguistics with a minor in Gender Studies from UVic. She is a settler living, working, and learning on the lands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. Robin has been working as a server for 8 years and is excited to be working toward creating communities of consent and care within the service industry.
Kenya Rogers (she/her) – Kenya has been a volunteer support worker, staff member, and workshop facilitator with the Anti Violence Project since 2015, and has delivered sexualized violence prevention programming throughout BC. She is a white-presenting settler of mixed-race ancestry, and grew up on the territories of the Syilx peoples. Kenya recently completed a Master’s at UVic’s Department of Political Science, examining grassroots activism and campus sexualized violence policy. As a survivor, advocate and former service industry worker, Kenya is dedicated to ending sexualized and gender-based violence on campus and within our communities.
Sarah Graham (she/her) – is a cis white queer settler who has lived, uninvited, on the lands of the Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples for the past 8 years. She has worked at the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre, Quadra Village Community Centre and is now the Youth Educator at AVI Health and Community Services. Her work is mostly focused on youth, education, consent, harm reduction, anti-oppressive practices, transformative justice and community organizing. Outside of capitalist time, she is usually found with the latest book from her favourite anarchist press, practicing care centered solidarity or learning to grow healing plants in an apartment garden.
