Ordinary Women Rise: the Radical Women of Vancouver Rape Relief and Womenโs Shelter is a call to action and a blueprint for change that equips readers across sectors with the historical context, political analysis, and lived realities necessary to strengthen their work in support of womenโs safety, equality, and liberation.
"If the category of biological females is erased or fundamentally decoupled from sex-based oppression, that oppression becomes increasingly difficult to identify and, thus, to combat. In sum, what is not defined cannot be protected."
We urge the committee to call on Canada to denounce and condemn any attempt to intimidate, threat, attack, silence and boycott womenโs groups and individual women for speaking up on the unique experience and needs of female born women and girls and remind Canada that the โAttempts to silence women based on the views they hold regarding the scope of gender identity and sex in law and in practice and the rights associated with these, severely affects their participation in society in dignity and in safety, as well as their countryโs prosperity and development.โ
Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter is collaborating with Wenlido to host another free self-defence workshop for women of all ages and abilities.Call 604-872-8212 for information & to register.
