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If the System Is Broken, Don’t Fix It? Judge Camp and the Status Quo
Post by Natti Schmid, WAVAW Office Manager Perpetrators must be held accountable for the violence they commit against women. WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre was awarded intervener status to speak to the...
Judge Camp and The Beast of Rape Culture
Post by Adrienne Moya, Victim Services Medical Support Worker We tell women not to take on more responsibility or burden than they need to when navigating the criminal justice system. We tell them...
10 Things That Take Longer than Brock Turner’s Prison Sentence
Brock Turner, Stanford’s star rapist (who can also swim), will be released from prison on September 2. On that day, he will have spent only three months in prison, half of his already miniscule...
Layers of Patriarchal Garbage
We recently learned that a French woman wearing a burqa made of bathing suit material (clever!) at the beach was forced to remove it by armed police. This is in keeping with recent bans on the full...
NEWS RELEASE: Coalition Calls Federal Plan for National Inquiry too Vague
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a double-edged survival
Guest Post by a WAVAW Volunteer I carry with me a double-edged knife. I carry this knife close to me, in a hidden pocket. I keep my wallet there, reaching often. Outside I carry this knife...
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...
An open letter to post-secondary leadership
It’s been an interesting spring. On May 19, BC adopted legislation requiring post-secondary institutions to have sexual assault policies. The media is asking questions of Vancouver universities to...
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