Transformative justice and gender-based violence
Transformative Justice asks of us some powerful questions about our humanity and our capacity for mercy, and for seeing beyond a person’s worst moment.
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Let’s Talk About: Celebrating Boundaries!
“Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously.” Prentis Hemphill This blog post is the third and final post of three posts exploring creating, recognizing and celebrating boundaries for this…
Let’s Talk About: Recognizing Our Own Boundaries and the Boundaries of Others
This blog post is the second of a series of three posts exploring creating, recognizing and celebrating boundaries for this year’s Sexualized Violence Awareness week. Our first blog about CREATING boundaries can be found here!…
Let’s Talk About: Creating Boundaries
This blog post is the first of a series of three posts exploring creating, recognizing, and celebrating boundaries for this year’s Sexualized Violence Awareness week. As pandemic restrictions change, you might be feeling some anxiety…
*Closed* AVP is Hiring! We’re Searching for an Outreach Coordinator.
Are you passionate about ending sexualized and gender-based violence? Do you have awesome outreach skills? Would you like to work with a small collaborative team of dedicated, skilled, and supportive folks? Now is the time…
Video: Disability Justice & COVID-19
What is ableism? Why don’t some people wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic? Where are all the amazing disabled QT2BIPOC? In this presentation by guest facilitator Monica Ogden, we will learn about ableism in the…
Video: Queer Sex Ed Workshop
Join guest facilitators Ardeo and River as we delve into the queer sex education you didn’t get in high school! In the first part of this workshop we talk about consent basics, definitions of what…
Addressing sexualized violence in the service industry
May I? Starting in 2017, a group of service industry workers, frontline sexualized violence educators, and workers rights advocates began meeting with a common goal of addressing and preventing sexualized violence in the restaurant and…
Grounding resources for survivors
The Anti-Violence Project’s objective has always been to believe survivors and ensure the safety, support, care, and healing they need and deserve. In attempting to increase survivors’ emotional safety and healing, we put together several…
What to expect from The Anti-Violence Project’s Peer Support Services
The Anti-Violence Project’s peer support services are entirely free and open to anyone, including UVic students and community members of all genders, ages, and immigration statuses. When you reach out for the support you will…
Going online: What we want you to know about our workshops
Like many folks who’ve been privileged enough to be able to continue to work throughout the last 9 months, I’ve faced the challenge of having to quickly learn to translate my skills into new socially…
Website and social media policy
Our team is dedicated to sharing information about AVP, as well as articles and videos around supporting survivors, promoting consent, and working to end gender-based and sexualized violence.
Supporting students and survivors during COVID-19
We’re so excited to bring you online workshops this fall (more information to be announced soon) but in the meantime we thought we’d share a project we took on earlier this spring! On May 20th…
9 Things folks supporting survivors of sexual assault should know about reporting
Are you supporting a friend or loved one who has been sexually assaulted? Here are some useful tips on how to talk about reporting with a survivor.
8 Things survivors of sexual assault should know about reporting
In light of public discussion on reporting, we wanted to write a piece all about reporting and the many considerations that come with it to help survivors make informed decisions for themselves.