Kids, cats, and everyday acts of consent
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…
The Blog
Reflections on the first week at AVP
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 more excited about this opportunity…
Being a Community and Protecting Identities
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 the imposition of Eurocentric beauty…
CLOSED – We’re hiring an Education Coordinator
AVP Education Coordinator – Amended 2016-01-29 (1) ** All applications must be submitted to alma [at] uvic [dot] ca or dropped off at the General Office at the Student Union Bldg UVic. Applications sent directly…
Unlearning White Supremacy discussion group: reflections on the “free Tibet syndrome”
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…
Reflections on our first Unlearning White Supremacy discussion group
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 …
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…
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…
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…
New discussion group, Unlearning White Supremacy
We’re starting up a new discussion group and learning opportunity. Join us this semester, starting Tuesday, to have a facilitated…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …