2011

Celebrating Rape Relief's First Annual Bowl-a-Thon!

On Friday November 18, 12 enthusiastic teams filled Grandview Lanes Glow Bowling with zany costumes, team chants and fundraising spirit for our First Annual Bowl-a-Thon. ...

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2011

Backpage.com Protest in Vancouver

Print Version FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2011 ...

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2011, Violence Against Women, Prostitution and Trafficking

Flesh Mapping Bed Sheet Images

2011, Flesh Mapping, Prostitution and Trafficking

Solidarity March in Support of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, July 5, 2011 Ottawa

Women's Worlds 2011: 800 march on Parliament for murdered and missing Aboriginal women By Elizabeth Pickett ...

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2011, Prostitution and Trafficking

Participants in the Daily International Conversation

Facilitators: Lee Lakeman – Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter ...

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2011, Flesh Mapping, Prostitution and Trafficking

Set up of Global Flesh Mapping, Ottawa, 2011

2011, Flesh Mapping, Prostitution and Trafficking

Day 3 - Global Fleshmapping: Our Means Will Condition Our Ends

Our Means Will Condition Our Ends July 6, 2011 For the purpose of this conversation, let's accept that we continue to agree that “the personal is the political” and that “no woman is free until all women are free.” We inhabit a gendered world not only oppressive to women, but also infused with homophobia and ableism, nationalism, militarism and masculinist ideology. Generations of women are divided not only by experience, but also by changing material conditions and sexist mythology. ...

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Day 4 - Global Fleshmapping: As Prostitution and Rape Marginalize and Oppress So Feminist Solidarity Resists

As Prostitution and Rape Marginalize and Oppress So Feminist Solidarity Resists July 7, 2011 Violence against women (whether rape, wife abuse, incest or sexual harassment or prostitution) not only exploits women’s unequal status, but enforces that lower status and inequality. It is not only a set of incidents of the subjugation of individual women, but also a power that enforces women’s subjugation as a group. ...

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Day 2 - Global Fleshmapping: Reform and/ or Revolution?

Reform and /or Revolution? July 5, 2011 We define “reform” as positive changes that may buffer some women, but operate within the existing Patriarchal power relations which hold men (both individually and collectively) over women We define “feminist transformation” as revolutionary changes because they affect the fundamentals of those Patriarchal power relations (of the individual men and group men over women) toward an egalitarian and liberatory future. ...

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2011, Flesh Mapping, Prostitution and Trafficking

Day 1 - Global Fleshmapping: We are Living in the Belly of the Beast of Patriarchy

We are Living in the Belly of the Beast of Patriarchy July 4, 2011 Women and especially Aboriginal women experience the oppressive force of the state in the form of colonialism. As well, all women face state tolerance of (inaction against) sexist violence and state economic practices and policies that exploit and impoverish women creating their vulnerability to attack. ...

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2011, Flesh Mapping, Prostitution and Trafficking

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