Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent six years travelling to all parts of Canada to hear from Indigenous peoples who had been taken from their families as children, forcibly if necessary, and placed for much of their childhoods in residential schools. This volume is a summary of the discussion and findings contained in the Commission’s final multi-volume report.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Responses from the Field: Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Policing
Advocates, service providers, attorneys, and community members in the U.S shared stories, concerns and recommendations regarding policing and domestic violence and sexual assault.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Sex Work: Transitioning, Retiring and Exiting
This report summarizes the experiences of women and girls with disabilities experiencing gender-based violence at disproportionately high rates, and provides an exploration on the potential of peer support model for services to be adapted to meet the unique needs of women and girls with disabilities.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
This report addresses the legal and policy issues faced by mothers with disabilities in Canada. It makes clear that women with disabilities experience many distinct parenting issues not faced by disabled fathers or non-disabled parents of other genders.
No Selves to Defend: A Legacy of Criminalizing Women of Colour for Self Defense
The “No Selves to Defend” anthology was conceived and edited by Mariame Kaba of the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander (now called Love & Protect). Published in June 2014, the anthology locates Marissa Alexander’s case within a historical context that criminalizes and punishes women (particularly of color) for self-defense and survival.
Getting to the Roots: Exploring Systemic Violence against Women in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
Exploring Systemic Violence Against Women in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver is a safety audit conceived of and put into action by a coalition of women-serving organizations in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver.