[Wamvan] Great opportunity to influence journalism industry

[Natalie Hill]

Hey y'all,

I want to invite all of you to be a part of something really cool,
something that allows us to:

a) get together and re-energize our feminist and WAM! energy
b) work together to curate our valuable insights and wisdom, and
c) contribute to something tangible, a toolkit that has the power to impact
the ways Canadian journalists report on rape and sexual assault.

*** at the bottom of this email is a list of dates for a workshop. please
respond with which ones work for you! ***

First, the background: Last year a group called *femifesto* produced a
document called "*Reporting on Sexual Assault: A Toolkit for Canadian
Media". *femifesto defines itself as a Toronto-based, grassroots feminist
collective that works to shift rape culture to consent culture. *Here's the
link to the toolkit and the femifesto website
<http://femifesto.ca/home/media-toolkit/>.*

*The cool part is this: *The creators want feminist across Canada to
provide their insights to make the toolkit even better. *They are asking
people to contribute their ideas by August 30, 2014.* After gathering up
the input, they will revise the kit and re-release it on November 25, 2014.

Hopefully the toolkit will be shared and integrated into a variety of
news-producing environments. I met today with Jarrah Hodge, and a few
lovely folks at the Sexual Assault Support Centre at UBC, and we have some
very exciting plans for ways to share the toolkit with journalists and
student journalists early next year. More on that to come later...

For now -

*How many of you would be interested in getting together for one 2-3hr long
meeting to brainstorm and gather up our collective feedback on the toolkit?*

We assume Saturdays are the safest..... What date works best for you?

April 19
April 26
May 10
May 31
June 7
June 14

If you're interested, please reply in this thread with the date(s) you like
best. If more than one option works, please order them (preference #1, 2
and 3).

Once we have a date nailed down, SASC has very generously offered to help
us out with a venue. SASC is also organizing similar workshop with their
volunteers to do the same thing in April. Between SASC and WAM!, we think
we can contribute some great feedback to this project.

LET US KNOW!
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