Consent, Coercion, and Culpability: Is Prostitution Stigmatized Work or an Exploitive and Violent Practice Rooted in Sex, Race, and Class Inequality?
Download/print PDF This article was published in Archives of Sexual Behavior
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Written Closing Submission for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
“And it is happening for a simple reason. There is nothing complex and difficult about the reason. Men are doing it, because of the kind of power that men […]
Statistics about Violence against Girls and Young Women in Canada
Source: Statistics Canada, Police-reported violence against girls and young women in Canada, 2017 (Release Date: December 17, 2018) Aboriginal girls and young women over-represented among victims of homicide. Violence against […]
Statistics about Harassment of Women in Canadian Workplaces
19% of employed women in Canada have experienced harassment in their workplace in the past year. Workplace harassment includes verbal abuse, humiliating behaviour, threats to persons, physical violence, and unwanted […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Written Closing Submission for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
“And it is happening for a simple reason. There is nothing complex and difficult about the reason. Men are doing it, because of the kind of power that men have […]
Vancouver Rape Relief’s Submission on Guaranteed Livable Income to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Even though Indigenous women are only 2% of the women in the lower mainland, they comprised more than 30% of the women who called us looking for safe shelter for […]
With No Immediate Cause by Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, the black feminist American playwright and poet died yesterday (October 27, 2018) Below is her poem With No Immediate Cause every 3 minutes a woman is beatenevery five minutes […]
The Women’s Equality and Liberty Coalition’s Written Submission in the Murder of Cindy Gladue Case at the Supreme Court of Canada
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The Women’s Equality and Liberty Coalition’s Oral Submission in the Murder of Cindy Gladue Case at the Supreme Court of Canada
*The Coliltion’s oral submission is at 2 hours and 55 minutes into the Supreme Court of Canada webcast.
This Is What I Told The Court Before My Rapist Was Led Away To Prison
Originally published at the Huffington Post Today I sat in court in Vancouver and watched the man who raped me eight years ago get led away in handcuffs to prison […]