Rohypnol – How the Hype Tricks Women: A Rape Crisis Centre View
This article was originally published in Canadian Women’s Studies, Vol 20, No 3 (2000) Part One In 1999, the North Vancouver RCMP seized a large quantity of Rohypnol. After days of […]
Women’s Resistance: From Victimization to Criminalization
Despair and Resistance: A report from the conference in Ottawa As a rape crisis worker and collective member of the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, I participated in the […]
BC Anti-Violence Workers Meeting Recommendations for Change
In September of 1999, feminist frontline anti-violence workers and some of our allies from equality seeking women’s groups met to discuss and debate and determine what critical issues related to […]
Remembering Bonnie Ruth Agnew 1947 – 1998
Eulogy by Lee Lakeman: Section One…There will be pie in the sky when you die I wish I believed in an afterlife. I wish Bonnie did and I wish I […]
Incest and Sexual Abuse of Children
One common form of sexual abuse of children is incest, which has been defined as sexual contact that occurs between family members.* Most incest occurs between older male relatives and […]
Cuts to Legal Aid Undermine Battered Women’s Access to the Courts
Battered women deal with a range of issues that require access to legal advice by a qualified lawyer. Issues include: Custody and access of children which almost always involves negotiating […]
Take Back The Night Vancouver 1997 – Speech by Tamara Gorin
Vancouver Art Gallery We are here tonight because of the continuing and sometimes relentless violent attacks on women by men. Mostly it is men we know, love and trust thatare […]
Another Vernon Waiting to Explode
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Mass Murder in Montreal: The Sexual Politics of Killing Women
Download PDF The article was published in Life and Death: Unapologetic writing on the continuing war against women, 1997 The article is based on a speech Andrea Dworkin made at […]
Homophobia – A Weapon of Sexism
“The battered women’s movement has seen this kind of attack: the pressure has been to provide services only, without analysis of the causes of violence against women and strategies for ending it. To […]