Obsession With Intent
An investigative report into one hundred cases of violence against women; in all cases the women tried to get help from the system. 
 It is a harrowing account of […]
So Why Do They Stay?
Slapping, hair-pulling, kicking, biting…battered women relate a litany of abuse experienced at the hand of our intimate partners. The results are bruises, broken bones, black eyes, internal injuries, sometimes and death. Always […]
The Pictou Statement: A Feminist Statement for a Guaranteed Livable Income
For millennia women’s work, along with the free gifts of nature, has provided most of the true wealth of our communities. Women’s work has been central to individual and collective […]
Tell it to The Judge: Every Woman’s Primer on Testifying in Family Court
The Judge does not know you, has never read anything about you and has only the information about you that you give her in your testimony and only the evidence […]
Housework Under Capitalism: The Unpaid Labor of Mothers
Download/Read PDF Source: Off Our Backs, Vol. 34, No. 1/2 (January-February 2004), pp. 37-39
Resisting the Promotion of Prostitution in Canada: A View from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter
Download the PDF *Published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant
Press Release: BC Supreme Court Overrules BC Human Rights Tribunal
Women-Only Rape Crisis Centre and Transition House Did Not Discriminate Against Male-To-Female Transexual Court confirms any woman’s human right to organize with peers. VANCOUVER, B.C. – On December 19, 2003, […]
A Day in the Life of a Feminist Rape Crisis Worker
My name is Erin S. and I’m a collective member at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. This means that I work both on our 24-hour crisis line and in […]
Press Release: Sherry Heron’s Death – Result of Hospital and Police Procedure
The result of following hospital and police procedure is that Sherry Heron is dead. And so is her mother, and so is her husband Lee Lakeman, the Canadian Association of […]
Press Release: Gutting of BC Attorney General’s Wife Assault Policy Will Cost Women’s Lives
(VANCOUVER) The double murders of Sherry Heron and Anna Adams on May 20, 2003 by Bryan Bruce Heron are an example of the heightened danger that women now face as […]