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  • Posted December 6, 2012

Gender and Education

By Pak Ka Liu For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence, I’m thinking about Gender and Education. Today is December 6th – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.  Today is the day we commemorate the 14 women who were killed at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal.  The gunman purposely chose […]
  • Posted December 2, 2012

Social and the new Anti-Social

By Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence, I’m thinking about the insidious impact of business models on social services, particularly for women.           You may have noticed of late a spate of, “new”, “innovative”, and “progressive” inventions that are coming out by using the term “social” […]
  • Posted December 1, 2012

Where the HIV/AIDS Movement meets the Feminist Anti-Violence Movement

By Dalya Israel During these 16 days of Activism, I’m thinking about the fact that other important days are being commemorated as well. Today is World AIDS Day, a day that perhaps many of us have not traditionally associated with women but I think it’s time we did. As someone who has grown up in Canada, I […]
  • Posted November 30, 2012

Collectively Parenting “Our” Children

By Lisa Wagner During these 16 days of Activism, I am thinking about our daughters. I have a strange relationship with children. I love them, but I have never really wanted any of my own. I have never seen myself in the role of “mother,” but feel a better fit as “aunt,” “teacher,” “sister,” or […]
  • Posted November 29, 2012

Standing Up Against Misogyny among CFL Athletes

For the 16 Days of Action on Gender Violence we are thinking about how we can act when we see sexism in the media…here is an example… When we at WAVAW heard that a Calgary Stampeder had ‘joked’ via Twitter about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, we were anything but amused.  We decided to […]
  • Posted November 27, 2012

“Culture Is What We Make It, Yes It Is”

By Alana Prochuk There is no way I can think about violence against women without also thinking about the culture we live in. And when I say “culture,” I’m not talking about some abstract academic notion with no bearing on our day-to-day lives.  I’m talking about everything we participate in or bump up against as […]
  • Posted November 26, 2012

Courage and Music in the Face of Violence

By Ariana Barer For the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, I’m thinking about the courage it takes to tell anyone about sexualized violence and the nothing-less-than-heroism of making it public enough that this strength becomes a life-line for others.  I’m thinking specifically of Angel Haze’s song Cleaning Out My Closet and her […]
  • Posted November 23, 2012

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence starts today!

We’re excited to start the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence with the support of 5 SFU students who are taking the message to stop violence against women directly to the streets! Today on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and on the start of the 16 Days of Activism […]
  • Posted November 20, 2012

Transgender Day of Remembrance

This blog entry uses an asterisk after the prefix trans- as a way to include all non-cisgender gender identities. November 20th is the Trans* Day of Remembrance, a day that was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Although not every person represented during the Day of Remembrance […]
  • Posted November 15, 2012

Happy National Philanthropy Day!

Today is National Philanthropy Day! “It is the special day set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy—and those people active in the philanthropic community—have made to our lives, our communities and our world.” – AFP At WAVAW we are celebrating this day by honouring all the individuals and organizations […]