[Wamvan] Great opportunity to influence journalism industry

[Natalie Hill]

PS -

We will have food, and can provide child care and transit stipends for
anyone who wants them.


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Natalie Hill <nhill10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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