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We love our Volunteers

WAVAW Volunteers are feminists. WAVAW Volunteers get up in the middle of the night to tell strangers they are not alone. WAVAW Volunteers get up in front of dozens of strangers and call out patriarchy, colonization, police brutality, and rape culture. WAVAW Volunteers educate one person at a time about WAVAW and about ending violence. […]

WAVAW and the Emerging Feminist Consciousness

Guest Post by WAVAW Volunteer, Ruwani Dadallage I had first heard about WAVAW almost a decade ago when I got one of their buttons in high school during anti-bullying week. I thought the moniker was really cool and imagined what it would be like to work for an organization like that. Little did I know […]

WAVAW is now part of who I am

Guest Post by WAVAW Volunteer Prior to volunteering with WAVAW I didn’t really consider myself a “feminist”. I knew that I supported equality, felt strongly about women’s rights, and was frustrated by the treatment and portrayal of women by society. But the term “feminist” felt like a severe label that I didn’t adhere to. After […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]