[Wamvan] Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM)

Mon Jan 13 10:43:05 PST 2014

Dear all,

Thanks Jarrah, for reminding me of to share a few more of the events that form part of UBC Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).  It is an excellent calendar, the entire listing is available here:  http://students.ubc.ca/livewell/sexual-assault/sexual-assault-awareness-month/events

Tonight:

Sexual Assault, Safety and Public Transportation (I will join the panel with Anisa from AMS SASC and Wendy from transit police)

How can we
improve public transit safety
for women?

UBC Student Union Building 
Room 205
6138 Student Union Building Boulevard

Speakers, roundtable discussion (including Farsi translation) & light refreshments.

For help with childcare costs, please email Women Transforming Cities at info at womentransformingcities.org.

Presented by Women Transforming Cities
and the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre.

This is the 14th in the series of monthly café events hosted by Women Transforming Cities featuring grassroots discussion and informed speakers on topics that affect the urban experiences of all marginalised communities, including affordable housing, youth, seniors, transportation, and leadership. Women Transforming Cities recognises diversity and accessibility in multiple forms, and includes translators in community-relevant languages at all café events.

https://www.facebook.com/events/529714370457693

January 24th.  

De-colonizing the Anti-Violence Movement

Andrea Smith is an academic, feminist, and anti-violence activist. Smith's work focuses on issues of violence against women of colour and their communities, specifically Native American women. A co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the Boarding School Healing Project, and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations, Smith centres the experiences of women of colour in both her activism and her scholarship.

This talk will focus on how the anti-violence movement often strengthens rather than challenges state violence. It will explore alternative possibilities for addressing gender violence that do not primarily rely on state or other forms of institutional support.

Registration required. RSVP to women.students at ubc.ca by end of day Tuesday, January 21st.

Sponsored by Access & Diversity, The First Nations House of Learning, The Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships and The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.

https://www.facebook.com/events/529714370457693

January 29th.  

Lecture: Guyland, proving masculinity on the university campus

Wednesday, January 29, 6:30pm-8:00pm, Middlefield Group Lecture Theatre, room 098, Henry Angus, Sauder School of Business, 2053 Main Mall

There's a new stage of development in advanced industrial nations, between adolescence and adulthood. Some people call it "emerging adulthood," others call it "adultolescence."  Michael Kimmel calls it Guyland, and explores the gender issues both for young men and women, and discusses the North American university campus as the location in which Guyland is most fully played out. Where did Guyland come from? How do men and women navigate this new stage of development? How is it that the North American college campus, arguably one of the most gender equal institutions on the planet during the day, become so utterly gender unequal by night? 

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From: Wamvan [mailto:wamvan-bounces at lists.resist.ca] On Behalf Of Jarrah
Sent: January-13-14 10:17 AM
To: wamvan at lists.resist.ca
Subject: [Wamvan] Rape Culture: A Year in Review event this Thurs

Hi folks,

Just letting you know about this free event coming up on Thursday at The Gallery (UBC SUB) at 6 p.m.. Hope to see some of you there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/260282587461804/

Here's the event description:

Should we change how we talk about sexual assault in the media? 

In October, more than 200 students marched in a "Take Back the Night" rally to protest the recent wave of sexual assaults on campus. The goal of this event was also to highlight a culture of sexual violence on campus. 

>From M&M commercials to frosh-week rape chants sung on Canadian university campuses, are we living in a society that normalizes and condones rape? How can we address situations in the media and society that perpetuates rape culture? 

As part of UBC Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), The AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) and the Terry Project are hosting a BARtalk that will review the topic of campus rape culture, including a review of our own UBC campus. 

Our expert panel will include: 

** Lucia Lorenzi is a 4th-year PhD candidate in English at UBC. She's currently working on her dissertation, which focuses on the aesthetics and politics of silence in narratives of sexual violence. (@empathywarrior) 

** Jarrah Hodge is the author of the award-winning feminist blog Gender Focus.com and writes about gender, politics and labour issues. She has also written blog series for Bitch Magazine and the Vancouver Observer. (@jarrahpenguin) 

** Ashley Bentley is the Assistant Manager of the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) and holds a BA in Media and Cultural Studies. 

** Rachel Sullivan is a professor of sociology at UBC, and draws on social places and community relations to address sexuality and gender issues. 

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Jarrah Hodge
@jarrahpenguin
http://gender-focus.com

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