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  • Posted January 16, 2015

Are You Kidding Me?!?!?

Pregnant Meteorologist, Kristi Gordon, feels compelled to apologize on television for being pregnant and asks viewers to “please be easy” on her in regards to what she will be wearing to fit her changing body, because of all the criticism she received during her other pregnancy. Are you kidding me, people?!?!?! Quit scrutinizing women’s bodies!! […]
  • Posted December 23, 2014

WAVAW and the Emerging Feminist Consciousness

Guest Post by WAVAW Volunteer, Ruwani Dadallage I had first heard about WAVAW almost a decade ago when I got one of their buttons in high school during anti-bullying week. I thought the moniker was really cool and imagined what it would be like to work for an organization like that. Little did I know […]
  • Posted December 18, 2014

Women’s Lives Matter

Speech for International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers by WAVAW Counsellors, Jen Shortt and Jodie Millward As Aboriginal women from other territories, we would like to begin by acknowledging that we are visitors to this Coast Salish Territory and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh people for allowing us to be here. […]
  • Posted December 10, 2014

WAVAW is now part of who I am

Guest Post by WAVAW Volunteer Prior to volunteering with WAVAW I didn’t really consider myself a “feminist”. I knew that I supported equality, felt strongly about women’s rights, and was frustrated by the treatment and portrayal of women by society. But the term “feminist” felt like a severe label that I didn’t adhere to. After […]
  • Posted December 1, 2014

Double The Impact of Your Holiday Donation!

On Giving Tuesday (December 2, 2014) You Can Double The Impact of Your Holiday Donation!  Giving Tuesday which falls after Cyber Monday each year,  is a global day of giving! And this year Interac will match up to $25 per donation from 6:00am (PST) until 8:59pm (PST), or until they reach $10,000 in total matching dollars for all […]
  • Posted November 8, 2014

On this Remembrance Day…

This Saturday is Remembrance Day, a day set aside to remember our armed forces who went to battle and those who died. Undeniably, it is also a day to remember the horrors of war in order to ensure that war does not happen again.  After all, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to […]
  • Posted October 3, 2014

Are You Kidding Me?

Really Target why would you think this is ok? It’s not cute, it’s sexist. As the article points out  “It’s the juxtaposition of the two articles that really sort of frames this whole feminist critique that says women are judged powerful by who they date, and men get to be powerful in their own rights,” […]
  • Posted August 15, 2014

Are You Kidding Me?!

  Let the groan-fest continue. We came across yet another headline that has prompted us to ask , “Are you kidding me?!” [insert face-palm here]. Women in Brazil are being asked to either submit to gynecological tests or, in some cases, prove their virginity in order to apply for jobs in the state Education Department. […]
  • Posted August 8, 2014

WAVAW at VCC

WAVAW and the VCC Community C.A.R.E. About Gendered Violence! In April 2013, WAVAW, Vancouver Community College (VCC), and its Students’ Union launched an amazing 18-month project called C.A.R.E. (Campus Allied Response Effort) About Gendered Violence. With funding from Status of Women Canada and WAVAW’s generous donors, we developed an action plan to prevent gender-based violence on campus and enhance support […]