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Reading survivor memoirs is important (of all kinds, but of sexualized violence in particular). Society demands so much transparency from survivors of sexualized violence that survivors do not owe anyone. Curious and skeptical as we human beings are, we often want to hear first-hand experiences of trauma, not scholarly sources or statistics. And though we…
And other questions survivors ask us about the reporting process It is not uncommon to have mixed feelings or fear about making a police report after a sexual assault, and the popular information can be confusing, or frankly, misleading. Many clients of ours ask our counselling team the same questions about the legal system. Most…
For centuries of warfare, sexualized violence has been used as a weapon intended to punish, intimidate, and destroy communities, primarily by targeting the civilian women, children, and LGTBQ+ members of a society. Terrorizing calls for the blatant sexual assault of civilians (like we’ve seen in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Liberia; Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq; Russia, Ukraine,…
The Ministry of Education announced new parental inclusion and consent policies for Saskatchewan Schools on August 22. As part of the announcement, boards of education have been called to ‘immediately pause involvement with any third-party organization’ and also stated that ‘only teachers, not outside third-parties, will be able to present sexual education materials in the…
We’re one year into the Violence Against Women Advocate Case Review (VACR), and what have we learned? What’s next for this project and the work that came from it? And most importantly – what does this project mean for survivors? Police services across Canada faced country-wide scrutiny after an investigation by the Globe and Mail…
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