[Wamvan] rape culture and federally funded educational program

[Tami Starlight]

sounds absolutely terrible!

i agree with the statement of rape/sexual assault culture everywhere.

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Hiy Hiy/Thank you/Merci
*Tami M. Starlight*
Unceded & occupied Coast Salish Territory
Vancouver, Canada
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Kyla Jamieson <kyjamieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi WAM!,
>
> *trigger warning: rape, date rape*
>
> This is my first e-mail to the WAM list, so I'm a bit nervous. I hope this
> is an appropriate topic to contact you all about.
>
> I was recently participating in the Explore program in Trois Rivières,
> Qué., but left the program after staff members performed a date rape drug
> skit that was triggering and completely inappropriate (the punchline was
> that the would-be rapist found one girl too unattractive to try to rape
> her). What concerned me most was that when I tried to address this issue
> with the admin, they were both reluctant and uninformed, saying "it's not
> our responsibility to educate people about consent," even though "every
> time we run the program a girl is drugged and/or raped." (they later took
> back the later statement, though they did say that a participant in the
> spring session was raped, and I have heard about one rape there last
> summer). The admin said that if I wanted them to educate program
> participants, say, by showing a video about consent, during one of the
> assemblies--to counteract the impressions about rape the skit created--I
> would have to find a video for them, because they don't know how. When I
> insisted that they provide resources to survivors of sexual assault, they
> provided information for one resource that is available only in French,
> though French is not a first language of 95% of the program participants.
>
> I have been told that the provincial coordinator for Explore and the
> Director of CMEC (the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada) will be
> following up on this issue. My worry is that Explore, like so many
> university campuses, has a silent rape epidemic on its hands. At best, some
> of its programs are woefully unwilling and unprepared to educate
> participants about resources, sexual assault, and consent. I'm also
> concerned that the Explore program in general, as it is not centralized in
> one city/on one campus, may have no policies in place around education and
> staff training w/r/t sexual assault.
>
> So, WAM!VAN: Anyone want to write about this or know how to get the media
> involved? I think the more people who hear and talk about this the better,
> and I would like to see someone hold the admin at Trois Rivières
> accountable.
>
> My email: kyjamieson at gmail.com
>
> Thanks!!
>
> -K
>
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