ending gender based violence
Reflections on telling the state to do better
This past October, AVP was invited by The House of Commons’ Standing Committee on the Status of Women to be part of their study on Violence Against Young Girls and Women specifically in relation to campus violence. Kenya and Paloma reflect on their experience presenting to the committee in Ottawa.
Catcalling is part of rape culture. This means it’s also connected to power and privilege and cisnormativity…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hello community members, As an organization we are enraged, heartbroken, and ashamed regarding the atrocious amount of violence that has been, and continues to be targeted towards trans women and transfeminine folks on campus and in the wider community. It
There have been some ideas circulating in the media. Let’s push back on the idea that folks who witness a disclosure have any right to question the validity of the trauma that person has carried and chosen to release…
Connecting the violences of the child welfare system and missing and murdered Indigenous women
People are resisting violence on campus, and working to create safer, more caring and respectful relationships. This is written in gratitude to all those resisting rape culture and building alternatives to it…