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Sex Work Community Feedback Survey

Last week we published an Accountability Letter titled “To the Sex Worker Community – We Owe You An Apology.” This generated a lot of dialogue. We heard what you had to say on Twitter, Facebook, and via email. We want to hear more. We want to be certain that we are meaningfully including the community’s […]

Queering Safety

To register for Queering Safety please call 604-255-6344 or toll-free 1-877-392-7583 We invite you to submit any questions about this group to: inclusion@salalsvsc.ca 

To the sex worker community – we owe you an apology

July 18, 2018 To the sex worker community, As an organization, we always say that systems and perpetrators of violence need to be held accountable. This is no different when we have enacted harm ourselves. Today, we’re writing this letter to take accountability. We have taken actions that have caused harm to sex workers, and […]

Introducing our Activist Animals!

We know sexual violence intersects with many other types of oppression. This spring, we’re excited to be launching a new Activist Animals series! These Activist Animals highlight the different kinds of oppression we need to fight in order to create a world free from sexualized violence. One of our Activist Animals is Equality Meow – […]

Scotiabank Prizes!

The Scotiabank Half-Marathon & 5K is less than a month away! It’s crunch time, friends! Full disclosure, I had been feeling a little uninspired with my fundraising, but yesterday I crunched some numbers that lit a fire in me! If WAVAW reaches our goal of raising $68,000 through Scotiabank we will be able to provide 5 […]

Queering Language and Resisting Perfection

A few weeks ago, WAVAW staff participated in a workshop around queer language in anticipation of opening our services to all Two Spirit, trans, and nonbinary survivors. We knew that being fluent in the language was an important step in our work, which absolutely needed to be taken in order to build safety for queer […]

Petition: Government of BC- Support Survivors of Sexual Assault

UPDATE: March 8, 2018 – We’re so excited to let you know that Green Party MLA for Cowichan Valley Sonia Furstenau will be presenting our petition at the BC Legislature today! Stay tuned for more updates!   On February 20, the BC government announced their new budget. We were heartened to see increases in spending […]

If you’ve ever doubted your impact – don’t: A Letter to our Community

To our loving and supportive community, You know that feeling when you read something, and know it’s insincere? It’s not often you get to do something about it.  At WAVAW we’re always ready to use our platform to advocate for survivors. That’s exactly what we did when we saw former BC Premier Christy Clark’s recent op-ed about #MeToo. We published […]

Chosen-Family Day Activities

This Monday, February 12, is Family Day in British Columbia, and we are centering this celebration on chosen family. Chosen family is a group of  people who love and sacrifice for each other, are not defined by romance, and have a bond strong than friendship. Family, that is not dictated by blood or marriage. Many folks […]