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Context of Consent in a Rape Culture

[Talk at the Social Justice Action Network @ UBC Law: Defining “Yes”: Consent, Sexual Assault and the Law] First of all, I would like to start with recognizing that we are on unceded Musqueam land. If we are going to talk about a culture of violence, we have to first start with the very land […]

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!! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Happy Valentine’s Day

This Valentine’s Day, let the important folks in your life know how much you C.A.R.E.! Give ’em a personalized anti-violence valentine’s day card. Designs are courtesy of Vancouver Community College’s (VCC) Digital Graphic Design students and Madison Reid, and developed in 2014 for WAVAW’s C.A.R.E. (Campus Allied Response Effort) About Gendered Violence Program. Download your […]

Creating Connections: WAVAW’s Support Groups

Written by Sharon, WAVAW Counsellor Many of us have seen support groups on TV and have an idea that they’re a space where one explicit group leader puts participants on the spot to share their deepest thoughts, without much choice. This is not what WAVAW’s groups are like. Not at all. As a counsellor at […]

Fighting Patriarchy is Hard Enough

When Beyoncé’s album first dropped, the internet blew up with articles, blogs, and discussion critiquing whether or not Beyoncé is a feminist. Naturally, as feminists, we joined in and began to critique Beyoncé’s new album as well. The critiques ranged from pointing out the explicit glamorization of intimate partner violence shown in “Drunk in Love”, […]