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  • 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 […]
  • Posted August 8, 2014

WAVAW’s Letter to the Editor on Trans Inclusion

In response to Margaret Wente’s recent ill-informed and transphobic editorial in The Globe and Mail, WAVAW submitted this letter to the editor (which was not published). We felt it was vital to dispute Wente’s assumption that all feminists and all rape crisis centres discriminate against transgender women and ignore the epidemic of violence fuelled by transmisogyny. At WAVAW, our […]
  • Posted July 25, 2014

Are You Kidding Me?

WAVAW women are everywhere; and we are telling all the propagators of rape culture that we’ve got our eyes (and cameras) on you! One of our roving feminist friends captured this bus ad, courtesy of Vancouver’s own Transit Police, whose public safety campaign urges, “See Something? Say Something!” Well, then! Since we saw something a […]
  • Posted July 9, 2014

Rosie + WAVAW = patriarchy smashing butterfly

Guest post by WAVAW Volunteer Rosie Maeder Write a blog post? Me? Yikes. What an intimidating prospect. I’m sure I’m not knowledgeable enough, witty enough, WAVAW enough… But you know what, I can write this. And I am going to write this, for two reasons. First and foremost, since I magically stumbled upon WAVAW and […]
  • Posted July 2, 2014

Feminism Introduced Me to Myself

Guest Post by a WAVAW Volunteer Like many women, I have suffered from depression since my preteens. Maybe even earlier… (Were those tantrums as a child really just nonsense, or was I reacting negatively to feeling belittled by the adults around me? Being humiliated? Ridiculed?). I watched as the members of my nuclear family developed […]
  • Posted June 26, 2014

Volunteer Spotlight – Megan

This year, WAVAW had the immense fortune of having Megan Cosens as a volunteer in our office.  Here are some words the staff used to describe her wonderful presence and contributions: Megan offered incredible support to the Fund Development program by: Searching information and entering over 300 donors into our complex new system; shredding over […]
  • Posted May 29, 2014

You Can Take Action Too!

How can a government be indifferent to public education, to fair working conditions for teachers, to the law and BC Supreme Court rulings? We stand in solidarity with our teachers and all of those who are working to make sure public education a government and societal priority. You can take action too! – Send a […]
  • Posted May 22, 2014

Volunteer Spotlight – Lisa

In April and May, WAVAW was lucky enough to host Lisa Patrick as our Library Technician practicum student from Langara’s Department of Library and Information Technology Program. Lisa was tasked with an extremely challenging, complex and ambitious project: revamping the entire WAVAW library system! Never daunted by the magnitude of the job, she always went […]
  • Posted May 13, 2014

Absolute Heartbreak: Enough Is Enough

Another woman in B.C. was killed on Sunday by her ex-husband.  WAVAW’s Manager of Victim Services and Outreach Programs, Dalya Israel, spoke on Global News BC1 at 4pm yesterday about violence against women. What was your initial reaction to the most recent homicide? My initial reaction last night hearing that yet another woman has had […]
  • Posted April 11, 2014

Why I needed to be involved with WAVAW

Guest Post by WAVAW Volunteer Cynthia Williams My name is Cynthia and I am an office support volunteer at Women Against Violence Against Women. My interest in volunteering with WAVAW was really not an interest at all. It was a need. Knowing the pain that violence had caused the beautiful and strong women close to […]