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Condoms and Consent

On July 29th 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada made an historic ruling on the 2021 appeal of R. v. Kirkpatrick. The case reaches back to 2017, and ultimately aimed to answer questions about whether or not negotiation of condom use during intercourse informs part of consent. A practice known by the survivors as “stealthing” […]

Q&A with Victim Services

At WAVAW, we receive a lot of questions from students.  We thought we would share some of our responses!   Here is a Q&A about sexuality, consent, sexual assault, and rape culture with Victim Services Manager, Dalya Israel:   I have a friend who went to a party and slept with this girl, who said yes and […]

Pleasure & Sexuality in a Rape Culture

WAVAW collaborated with illustrator, Jane Komori, to create this comic about how we can all think about pleasure and sexuality in the context of a rape culture. It was originally shared by WAVAW Staff, Dalya Israel and Jordan Pickell, as a zine in our workshop at the 2016 Guelph Sexuality Conference.