January is Sexual Assault Awareness month at UBCO
Join the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO) and partners this month to raise awareness of sexual and gender-based violence in our community. Our 2021 theme is: End Racism x End Sexualized Violence. This theme recognizes the ongoing work of anti-racist activists and movements like Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and Idle No More who have called attention to ongoing and historical racism.
Check out an upcoming SAAM event:
Jan 21 – HOPE Outreach: Supporting women in our community
Angie will speak to how HOPE Outreach implements trauma- and violence-informed outreach to women and girls in the Okanagan affected by poverty, substance use, homelessness, and violence and supports them to live safely and achieve their aspirations. The event will conclude with an opportunity to ask the speaker your questions.
Jan 22 – Discussion: Calling My Spirit Back
Join us for a reading and discussion with Elaine Alec from her recent book, titled “Calling My Spirit Back”. It is about intergenerational trauma caused by colonialism and the hard work that goes into healing and breaking cycles, and how the teachings of a nation can be channeled to heal and strengthen communities.
Jan 22 – What does it mean to be a student (woman) of colour on a Canadian university campus today?
In this talk, Eternity will share her own journey as a university student and woman of colour on a predominantly white campus — which she details at length in her memoir, “They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up”.
The talk will end with possibilities for how we can all better support students and women of colour from parents, friends, professors and allies, to what administrators and decision-makers can start doing now to make campuses more welcoming for students of colour.
Jan 26 – Tea talk with Tashia and Taylor
Pick up a package of tea and other goodies from the SUO to join your student representatives, Taylor and Tashia, who share and discuss issues around sex, consent and relationships.
Jan 27 – Creative healing: Ritual and arts-based support for BIPOC survivors
This group will be facilitated from an Indigenous healing and wellness approach to Expressive Arts therapy. We will invite and welcome our personal and collective resiliency to guide us every step of the way, this workshop will be our opportunity to honour our healing journeys in a virtual community. The arts-based processes will be facilitated in a way that the engagement in the arts becomes an opportunity to step into a resource and ritual oriented process. You do not need to have an artistic background to participate.
Jan 28 – Joking about the hard stuff through stand-up comedy
Come to this workshop if you are interested in looking at your hard stuff (which doesn’t have to be sexual assault) with an eye for humour. This workshop will not heal your trauma but will be a place to share stories and think of ways that we can joke about hard experiences.
Jan 29 – Sexualized violence, transformative justice and the shift away from criminalization
In this workshop, participants will learn about the basics of transformative justice as a model for ending and responding to sexualized violence, intimate partner violence, and other harms in society and understand why many activists believe it is an essential shift from the current approach of criminalization, police and prisons.
Learn more
.png?1611091361347)
