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Online Launch of “Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services”

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Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is thrilled to announce the launch of our community-based research report Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services.

WITH (bios below): Paulette Senior, Leslie Spillett, Summer Rain, Angela Marie MacDougall, and Harsha Walia.

Over the past year, BWSS has been engaged in a community-based research project to better understand and raise awareness on the experiences of Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors accessing gender-based violence services in British Columbia (B.C).

We conducted surveys with over 100 survivors, focus groups with anti-violence workers of colour, and a series of public events. We found that Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors in B.C face numerous barriers to accessing safety and support when they experience gender-based violence, such as lack of access to culturally safe services; mistrust of the legal system and other state systems; and being minimized or disbelieved. Indigenous, Black, and newcomer immigrant/refugee survivors face particularly heightened barriers to justice, including often being criminalized for reporting violence, having their children apprehended, or facing deportation.

The report identifies key barriers in accessing anti-violence services, and also offers concrete best practices for service providers developing anti-violence interventions. We are deeply grateful to all the participants who brilliantly and courageously shared their time and insights with us. Their words powerfully illuminate what is needed to end violence against Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors in this province.

As part of the #16DaysofActivism Against Gender-Based Violence, join us to hear more about Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services.

This event will include ASL interpretation.

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Nov 30, 2022 11:00 AM in Vancouver

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Nov 30, 2022 11:00 AM Vancouver Topic: Online Launch of “Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services” Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zDPM8-miTaie4NSQSc4Tmw After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Paulette Senior, elle (CEO and President @Canadian Women’s Foundation) Paulette Senior has devoted her career to empowering women & girls to overcome barriers and reach their full potential. Paulette started her career on the front lines of social service organizations in some of Toronto’s most underserved neighbourhoods. Her work and advocacy with shelters, as well as employment and housing programs, paved the way toward leadership roles at national organizations. She served as CEO of YWCA Canada for 10 years before joining Canadian Women’s Foundation as CEO in 2016. Her work is guided by the vision of an inclusive, national movement toward gender equity that will strengthen all Canadians. Paulette has earned numerous awards and become one of the most respected women leaders in Canada. Paulette is a member of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council. In 2021, she received an honorary doctorate of laws from University of Lethbridge. She is featured in the book Inspiring Canadians: 40 Brilliant Canadians and Their Visions for the Nation. Leslie Spillett, Giizhigoweyaabbikkew, Mukwa Doodem, she/her/Iskwew (Cree/Metis community kohkum and organizer @Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing) Leslie has been involved in many grassroots social justice movements over several decades. She has contributed to Indigenous sovereignty and equity within Manitoba’s Indigenous NGOs and co-founded Mother of Red Nations Women’s Council and Ka Ni Kanichihk in 2000. Both organizations were early leaders to support families of MMIWG2S and to advocate for systemic changes within Canada’s colonial institutions including health, education, justice, and child welfare. Currently Leslie works with Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and supports Indigenous students, faculty & staff within the five faculties of health and Mino Pimatisiwin Sexual Health Healing Lodge. She serves on the board/council of the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, National Consortium for Indigenous Medical Education, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls 2SLGBTQQIA+ Manitoba Advisory Committee, & Iskwewak Awetowak Nipocawin: Indigenous Women Leading Knowledge. Summer Rain (Manager of Direct Services and Indigenous Women's Program @Battered Women's Support Services) Summer Rain’s traditional Haida name is Xuuj dagwiitaa jaad, which means “Strong grizzly bear women.” In addition to her role at BWSS, she is also the co-chair of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre board of directors. Summer Rain has spent the last 18 years on the frontlines in the anti-violence movement. She is an active member of the DTES community. Her passion and work revolves around advocating for and raising awareness on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and gender diverse people, responding to sexual assault/gender based violence, and challenging, holding to account and exposing the flaws within the institutional settings of child welfare, policing and the court system. Summer Rain is an outspoken and passionate advocate who has committed her work to demanding not only justice but change. Angela Marie MacDougall (she/her) (Executive Director @Battered Women's Support Services) Through her organizing, frontline work & activism over three decades, Angela has been involved in social justice. Angela’s impact includes development of empowerment & advocacy-based delivery models that address gender-based violence. She has edited and/or written ten manuals on addressing gender-based violence from an intersectional, anti-oppression, feminist framework. A focus of her work has been the range of social inequities associated with colonization and the criminalization of communities of colour. Her work grows from her experiences as a bi-racial Black woman who grew up amongst violent racist misogyny at home, at school, and in the community. She became politicized after her high school friend was raped and murdered while on a date. Angela is a founding member of Feminists Deliver, and a long standing member of Feb 14th Women’s Memorial March. She was named a Remarkable Woman by City of Vancouver and Vancouver Magazine named her one of Vancouver’s most powerful people. Harsha Walia (she/her) (Manager, Research and Policy @Battered Women's Support Services) Harsha Walia is the Manager of Research and Policy at Battered Women’s Support Services. She works to end gender-based violence in the anti-violence sector, including previously at the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre and the South Asian Women's Community Center. She has also organized in community-based, grassroots migrant justice, anti capitalist, feminist, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist movements for the past two decades. Harsha is the award-winning author of "Undoing Border Imperialism" (2013) and "Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism," (2021), as well as co-author of “Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration” and “Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.”

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