University of Victoria SUB B027
Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱ŚANÉC Territories
University of Victoria SUB B027
Lkwungen and W̱ŚANÉC Territories
The Annual Sexualized Violence Awareness Week will take place on September 20-22nd, 2022! This year, we’re continuing to hold space for conversations about boundaries. Information Booth and Activities: Come visit us in front of Petch…
Interested in working with a non-profit organization dedicated to ending sexualized and gender-based violence? AVP is hiring a work-study to join our team for the 2021/2022 school year! We have 200 hours at $16 per…
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.
Hey, my name is Alyssa (she/they). I spent the last couple of months working with AVP as the work study student. I had the opportunity to research transformative justice and community accountability, resulting in a…
“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…
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!…
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…
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…
When I first started learning about consent, so much of what I read and learned focused on the importance of valuing and making space for everyone to be able to say “no”. While I definitely…
Rejection… for some folks, just the thought of it makes their hearts ache, their bellies rumble and their hands sweat. However, in many ways rejection is a regular part of everyday life. Since we aren’t…
This may be a little late (oops) but…the flowers are out, the sun is here and we are so excited to have finished another term here on campus! This past our team of staff and…
Hugging. Some of us hug our friends, our partners, our family and even people we’ve just met. Some us just don’t like hugs and that’s awesome too. Hugging can be a way to comfort someone,…
Another semester is almost done, and we congratulate all of you on finishing your semester, whether you got through your classes and/or took time to look after yourself. Whatever you did to make it through…
*written by Elise Fermina Freire, one of our amazing volunteers* Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about support and consent, even more so now that I am volunteering with the Anti-Violence Project (AVP). Support and…
Humans are messy creatures. Interacting with each other, especially in vulnerable ways, comes with risk. Although usually unintentional, we hurt each other often. In this current society we are taught entitlement to bodies from a…