Inย this episode we hear from Cenen Bagon from the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (CDWCR) about the herstory of her group, the campaigns to improveย employment conditions, and immigration statusย of foreign care workers in Canada, and her own life as an activist.ย
In this episode we talk with our member, Sonam, on some of the ways patriarchy manifests itself in South Asian communities, and with UK based Lesbian second-wave feminist Lynn Alderson about consciousness raising, women's groups as a radical act and women only spaces as crucial for women's resistance.
Many of the Asian women who call us donโt speak English. They did not find out about us through an internet search or seeing an interview with us in the media. Somehow, they got our phone number from someone who knew that we could help them. Regardless of the reason they call us, Asian women often tell us that theyโre constantly propositioned to have sex for money by men that they know, as well as men who are strangers to them.
With Suzanne Jay, Asian Women for Equality, Fay Blaney, Aboriginal Womenโs Action Network (AWAN), Taina Bien-Aimรฉ, Coalition Against Trafficking of Women and Dani Plumari, Vancouver Rape Relief and Womenโs Shelter
With Julie Diesta, Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workersโ and Caregiversโ Rights, Trisha Baptie, formerly Exploited Voices now Educating (EVE) and Ashani Montgomery, Vancouver Rape Relief and Womenโs Shelter
With a Guaranteed Livable Income, women would not have to be economically dependent on men. It would increase womenโs ability to resist exploitation and abuse from bosses, co-workers, landlords, pimps, and battering husbands.
Dominique Christina is an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds poetry slam titles including US National Poetry Slam Champion and Women of the World Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family's legacy in the Civil Rights Movement and by the idea that words make worlds.
This podcast is an excerpt from Dominiqueโs workshop at Vancouver Rape Reliefโs event for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in 2018.
