The Montreal Massacre - A Speech by Andrea Dworkin - Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter

CALL 24HR CRISIS LINE
604-872-8212

CALL 24HR

CRISIS LINE

24 HR CRISIS LINE 604-872-8212

The Montreal Massacre – A Speech by Andrea Dworkin

December 7, 1990

The speech was given at the one-year anniversary to the Montreal Massacre held at the University of Montréal, Montréal. December 7, 1990

Listen here

Women's Movement Femicide Montréal Massacre

Read Also

Women, Violence and the Montréal Massacre

Lépine was clear, “Women to one side. You are all feminists, I hate feminists,” he shouted. One of the young survivors, Natalie, tells reporters how she pleaded at the time, “We are only women in engineering who want to live a normal life.” She is unaware she had risen above her station. But her attacker, Lépine, was sure that it was not yet normal for Canadian women to become engineers.

By Lee Lakeman

March 1990

Femicide Montréal Massacre Women's Movement

Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women

The feminist is the woman who is there not because she is his woman, but because she is the sister of the woman he is being a weapon against. Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone. It exists to break down the privacy in which men rape, beat, and kill women. What I am saying is that every one of us has the responsibility to be the woman [that prick] wanted to murder. We need to live with that honor, that courage. We need to put fear aside. We need to endure. We need to create. We need to resist, and we need to stop dedicating the other 364 days of the year to forgetting everything we know. We need to remember every day, not only on December 6. We need to consecrate our lives to what we know and to our resistance to the male power used against us.

By Andrea Dworkin

1997

Femicide Montréal Massacre Women's Movement

Contact Us

What we offer

Peer Counselling
Grouping with other women
Advocacy with police
Accompaniment to a sexual assault exam
Housing for women and children escaping violence

Follow Us

Copyright Vancouver Rape Relief 2021