Status of Women committee  My job at the Anti-Violence Project is that I'm the volunteer lead. What that means is I'm trying to involve.... At the moment, we're training 15 volunteers. That takes a lot of energy, but that's what we have to do, because we do not have enough staff. We are spending a month tr

Status of Women committee  Similarly, we need policy that addresses ways to work with folks who have caused harm, within processes of accountability. We all hurt people, yet some things in our world are easier to be accountable for than others. If you get into a car accident with someone else's car, you ar

Status of Women committee  Our last point was that Allan Wade has said, “alongside each history of violence and oppression, there runs a parallel history of prudent, creative, and determined resistance.” When decision-makers and front-line workers come together and have platforms to share our experiences o

Status of Women committee  Allan Wade has said that alongside each—

Status of Women committee  Myths are dominant ideas about sexualized and gender-based violence that permeate our society and uphold this triangle. These myths include things like the concept that people are most commonly assaulted by a stranger, when in actuality 80% of sexual assaults happen with someone

Status of Women committee  With all this in mind, how do we create good processes on campus? How do we ensure that our policies and practices are rooted in the complexities of our communities? The first way that we believe we can do this is by having a survivor-centred approach. Many of the folks who take

Status of Women committee  The rape culture pyramid allows us to conceptualize the need to re-evaluate our response models. Imagine if we put time and resources into intervention and education, and addressing the everyday ways that rape culture exists in our society.

Status of Women committee  When we're talking about consent, and a need to focus on consent, we're talking about a need for consent culture. That's a culture in which asking for consent is normalized and expected in all aspects of life, including interpersonal and institutional. It's a culture in which sup

Status of Women committee  Students fighting for this work are faced by institutional barriers and push-back from legislators every day. Three provinces, Ontario, B.C., and Manitoba, have now taken a stand against sexualized violence, but there is so much farther to go. Students shouldn't have to think abo

Status of Women committee  My name is Paloma Ponti. I am the volunteer lead at the Anti-Violence Project. I am a second year gender studies major.

Status of Women committee  We need to think about who falls through the cracks when talking about violence against women and girls. Not everyone fits into those categories of women and men, and statistics show that women of colour, indigenous women, trans women, trans women of colour, and women with disabi

Status of Women committee  Finally, we want to acknowledge that the process of creating culture shifts in our communities is messy and often uncomfortable, but it is through sitting in that discomfort that we are able to engage in processes of change.

Status of Women committee  Today we're going to be talking about some of our frameworks, as well as sharing some definitions and discussing recent advocacy efforts on campuses across B.C. We're also going to present some of our recommendations for creating communities of consent, care, and respect on post-

Status of Women committee  We define “rape culture” as the culture in which we live in that normalizes and glorifies sexualized violence, thereby creating a sense of entitlement to other people's physical, emotional, and sexual beings without consent. This culture is upheld by many different things.