A feminist collective dedicated to ending male violence against women. We operate a 24 hour rape crisis line & transition house for women. 604-872-8212
A follow up to the dead rat that was nailed to our door recently... this morning we found this writing scrawled across the windows of our storefront space that we use for support and training groups
#Misogyny
Thank you everyone who's come down already to support us today. We are grateful for all the support we've received so far. From those who have written in on our behalf to those who will be speaking today. Until We Win.
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
#raperelief
#radfem
#yvr
We are extremely disappointed by the City of Vancouver’s intent not to fund our public education work and the message it sends to the women who seek out a women-only group as part of their resistance to male violence.
#VanCityCouncil
#fail
#women
#womenresistance
#womenonly
Sisterhood is powerful! Congratulations
@beirasplace
and
@jk_rowling
for the new women-only sexual assault support centre for
#women
and
#girls
in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
A massive thanks to
@Glinner
, Debbie Hayton, Ella Witchwood, and of course, everyone who contributed to the GoFundMe campaign! We're so grateful for the support and solidarity from across the pond!
A note on language... It's important not to erase and disguise Male Violence against Women. So instead of "Gender Based Violence" or "Intimate Partner Violence", say explicitly what it is: "Male violence against women in domestic/intimate relationships".
On today’s show: We hear the story of a sisterhood of survivors, who say they endured an abusive relationship with the same man, and want to warn others.
Plus, reviving the endangered art of handwriting; and a major leak of top secret U.S. intelligence.
Tannis Larsen: The city wants to make it harder for
#women
to gather by withholding funds if they don't agree to change the way they organize. Nothing is being added to
#yvr
by this coercive move, but something immensely valuable is being forced out of women's hands.
#raperelief
#Women
of
#BritishColumbia
! if an
#abortion
isn't accessible wherever you are in BC, we invite you to come to
#Vancouver
. We will help you to get here, house you & if you don't have residency status, we'll help you pay for the abortion. call us any time 604-872-8212
#sisterhood
Pictures from yesterdays' evening in Downtown
#YVR
. The women who did the postering action are Vancouver Rape Relief's callers. These women are rightfully fed up with the Criminal (in)Justice System refusal to hold abusive men accountable.
#Resistance
#Sisterhood
Canada’s top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as ‘person with a vagina’
Vancouver’s rape relief shelter says the ‘blurring of language’ doesn’t serve the fight to end male violence against women from
@TheTelegraph__
"
#Female
#oppression
is innately connected to our ability to reproduce. Women have made progress by talking about biology, menstruation, childbirth and menopause. We won’t now have our bodies or voices written out of the script."
#womenonly
#feminism
A good writing by our member Laurel McBride. Pornography harms women. If you truly wish to be ethical partners, you will divest yourself from profiting off the sexual exploitation of women and girls.
#NoMorePorn
via
@AJEnglish
The Court just delivered its decision: Canada’s prostitution laws are constitutional! Congratulations to the Women's Equality Coalition for this important ruling!
#CanadaProstitution
There is a significant overrepresentation of Indigenous women and black women among the women in
#prostitution
who call our crisis lines. We are standing in solidarity with the Abolitionist in Spain
#Abolici
ónProstituciónYa!
"Graham was very grateful but didn't feel like he could keep the money. He would like to give some to
@VanRapeRelief
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#solidarity
#WomenOnlySpace
Ashani: “If all we could offer women was a bed to escape an abuser, we would burn out from this work. We pride ourselves on the fact that we are ultimately fighting for women’s liberation..." (1/2)
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
#raperelief
.
@kylefarq
“By suspending funding to
@VanRapeRelief
, the council has achieved the opposite of what they intended to do: fight discrimination. This discrimination is against female-born people who have endured the trauma of male violence."
#womenonly
#radfem
#vancitycouncil
The harm of
#pornography
“Sexual strangulation, nearly always of women in heterosexual pornography, has long been a staple on free sites, those default sources of sex ed for teens. As with anything else, repeat exposure can render the once appalling appealing. “
The
@RioTheatre
is having a screening in CELEBRATION of Deep Throat. “Every time somebody sees that movie, they're watching me being raped... there was a gun to my head the entire time." Linda Boreman (aka Linda Lovelace)
We believe women! If you've experienced sexual assault and want support, call our 24-hour crisis line at 604-872-8212.
#KavanaughHearings
#WeBelieveHer
Great news from Spain: a new bill that criminalizes third party profiting off of prostitution and those who by women in prostitution while decriminalizing those who are prostituted, has been tabled by the minister of equality.
#abolition
#prostitution
🇪🇸 La CAP llama a la adopción de la proposición de Ley Orgánica para prohibir el proxenetismo en todas sus formas, registrada el 19/03/2024.
Esta ley representa un gran paso adelante para la abolición del sistema de prostitución en España.
Comunicado⬇️
72% of the women who are staying in our transition house are women of colour and
#indigenousWomen
. 78% of them are living in poverty and 18% of them are working in low paid jobs.
#sisterhood
#poverty
Erin Graham: "VRRWS has received this money for the purpose of educating the public about VAW and women's resistance against our sex-based oppression. This reason has not gone away. Women are still overwhelmingly at risk."
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
#raperelief
#radfem
#yvr
Danielle Cormier: “We can meet the needs of
#women
and trans women. One does not have to come at the expense of the other. I was best served by an organization that prioritized my experiences.”
#radfem
#raperelief
@vancitycouncil
#yvr
We are encouraged and reinforced by Reem Alsalem's statement. "I am concerned about the decreasing space available for women and women’s organizations to organize and/or express their opinion peacefully in several countries in the Global North."
Allow women and girls to speak on sex, gender &
#genderidentity
without intimidation or fear -
@UNSRVAW
: “Discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation is prohibited in international and regional human rights law."
Karla Gjini: "300 new women each year connect with each other and expose the male violence committed against them, some for the first time, through our volunteer program - which is created and facilitated by women who’ve previously participated."
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
“That is where I stand as a radical African feminist on the sacred spaces we have carved out, often with our very lives, and I am not prepared to share them with any man, as long as males continues to be privileged by patriarchy.” Patricia McFadden
#WomensSpace
#Resistance
Another devastating
#femicide
in
#BritishColumbia
The mother of six-year-old and six-month-old daughters was described as loving, outgoing and "always had a smile on her face," by her mother, Leslie Thomas.
We are encouraged and reinforced by Reem Alsalem's statement: Allow women and girls to speak on sex, gender and gender identity without intimidation or fear: UN expert
#womenssexbasedrights
#womensspace
Thank you to the Sangam Sister's Society for their hospitality at the Canada Day Celebration 2019. We are so grateful for their support of our fight to end male violence against women.
Margaret Mead: "If, on reaching majority, each woman were to be assured a guaranteed annual income for life, and given the same security as her brother, both instituting and continuing in a marriage would be matters of free choice."
#GuaranteedLivableIncome
#GLI
#BasicIncome
The reality of
#prostitution
Video
#1
what we know from our front line work. We are standing in solidarity with the Abolitionist in Spain
#Abolici
ónProstituciónYa!
"Keep in mind, for many who have already passed, or gone murdered and missing or who lost ties to their communities, the damage has already been done," she said. "Canada needs to make amends."
#indigenouswomen
#canada
#indianact
#women
Vincent Okolo: "The work VRR is doing is necessary and needed. You all have committed to making sure Vancouver is a safe city in which women are secure. Surely local grassroots groups like
@VanRapeRelief
help achieve this goal."
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
#raperelief
Good news!
The Women Equality Coalition has been granted leave to intervene at the constitutional challenge to Canada's prostitutions law.
#abolitionprostituion
#canada
65% of the women in
#prostitution
who call our crisis lines tell us they are dependent on drugs and/or alcohol. We are standing in solidarity with the Abolitionist in Spain
#Abolici
ónProstituciónYa!
Karla Gjini: "Public education is crucial to changing the way society views women so we will continue to offer it as we have always done. You should be proud, as the elected officials of our city, who value inclusiveness and equity above all, to contribute to this work."
#yvr
Ashani: "That when we answer the phone we are not only responding to a woman who has been raped but also fighting for a world where there is no more RAPE.” (2/2)
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
#raperelief
.
@gavinaword
: We must allow people to seek liberation on their own terms - helping them when we can! - but not making that help contingent on them following our lead, however good our intentions are from the outside of that struggle.
#vancitycouncil
#womenonlyspace
#raperelief
The report reinforces what we know from our front line work about the high number of girls trapped in prostitution and the close connection between
#prostitution
and
#trafficking
.
#BCPOLI
#Canada
"The police’s complicity in men’s violence against women extends beyond their refusal to arrest. We continue to follow public cases of male officers who themselves commit acts of violence against women."