[van-announce] Sep 13: Our Own Voices: Of Pain and Hope

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OUR OWN VOICES ||| OF PAIN AND HOPE

Join the Power of Women Group in an inspiring evening of storytelling,
poetry, reflection, and resistance


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Thursday September 13 at 7:30 pm
Rhizome Café
317 East Broadway (corner Kingsway)
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The Power of Women Group is a group at the Downtown Eastside Women's
Centre dedicated to educating and raising awareness on social issues. We
are a group of women from all walks of life who are either on social
assistance, working poor, or homeless; but we are all living in extreme
poverty below the poverty line. Many us of are single mothers or have had
our children apprehended due to poverty; most of us have chronic physical
or mental health issues for example HIV and Hepatitis C; many have drug or
alcohol addictions; and a majority have experienced and survived sexual
violence and mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional abuse. For
indigenous women, we are affected by a multi generational legacy of the
effects of residential schools and a history of colonization and racism.

We believe it is crucial for us- as women who daily bear the brunt of
poverty and violence- to share directly with you our experiences. We are
victims, but we are survivors; we are oppressed, but we are powerful.  We
are frequently researched and advocated on behalf of, but it is rare that
our own voices, our own aspirations, our own struggles, our own
h(er)stories are heard. We hope you will join us and we hope you will hear
us.

For more information contact us at project at dewc.ca or call 604-681-8480 x
234.