A room of silent witnesses and invisible victims
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…
Author: AVP Community
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Button making party, Thursday 3:00pm
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…
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No cops on outreach
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…
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A new semester of the Men’s Circle at UVic
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…
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What we’ve been up to this semester Sept-Dec 2016
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 we’re finding some ease via…
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Red Umbrella March
Join us in Bastion Square at 2:00pm for a march to Spirit Square where there will be speakers, performances and open mic and a meal will be provided…
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Why we don’t support funding cuts to VIPIRG
The Anti-Violence Project (AVP) would like to address the actions of the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS) board at the December 5, 2016 board meeting. At this meeting a motion was brought forward proposing…
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2016 Fall workshops at AVP: a recap
AVP has been growing this fall and we’ve added a new workshop, increased our enrollments, and continued reaching out to our communities to provide opportunities …
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Last Men’s Circle of the fall semester is November 30th
The last Men’s Circle of the semester is coming up on November 30th and we would love it if you joined us…
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“Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism” is violence
Dear campus community… If you haven’t yet found out, over the past year there has been, and continues to be, violence on campus targeting transwomen and transfeminine folks in particular, as well as other 2spirit and trans people, and sex workers…
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Use the Right Words: media reporting on sexual violence in canada
Farrah Khan is coming to UVic to say all the brilliant things about how we keep building a stronger culture of consent on campus and beyond and she is, among many other things, one of the founders and creators of “Use the Right Words”…
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Some social media soundbites from “We Begin by Listening”
The day that Farrah Khan spoke at UVic there were quite a few tweets and grams and we thought we would collect some here for future reference. Proud of @farrah_khan who's the keynote speaker at 3 BC…
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We’re hiring a Sexualized Violence Policy Advisor
Wanna help us advise UVic on the creation of the university’s Sexualized Violence Policy? We’re hiring someone to work with us for 10-15 hours a week until July 2017 while the policy is created. Current…
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Farrah Khan at the University of Victoria
A night of poetry, and discussion about community care, accountability, building consent culture and resisting violence with Farrah Khan and …
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Keynote talk by Farrah Khan
We are so excited that Farrah Khan is speaking soon! On Wednesday, September 28th, Khan will be presenting at the UVic Farquhar Auditorium with opening presentations by Anne-Bernice Thomas and Jeremy Loveday…
