AVP | ending gender based violence
During my time working at AVP, I had the privilege of watching a video of a workshop held in 2014 at the Unist’ot’en Camp. It’s a good workshop though the video is at times hard to hear. The workshop covers
On March 20th the Status of Women Canada released their report Taking Action to End Violence Against Women and Girls in Canada. This report marks an institutional affirmation of things that have been said for so long by grassroots organizers
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…