[Wamvan] Great opportunity to influence journalism industry

[Natalie Hill]

Bumping this up! See the first message in this thread for the details.

*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 a toolkit
for journalists covering sexual assault?*

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

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

So far April 26 is the front-runner...

let us know!


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:02 PM, JJ <genderville at gmail.com> wrote:

> All of those dates work for me except May 31st with preference given to
> the first three.
>
> Jennifer
>
> On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Natalie Hill <nhill10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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