Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Contextualizing the Experiences of Black Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study examines Black women’s experiences with the police in the context of IPV, from the perspectives of Black women. Issues of race, racism, oppression, subordination, and their intersections with Black women’s experiences of IPV, and their encounters with the police are explored.
Laadliyan Gender Based Violence Toolkit
A toolkit by and for the South Asian community to discuss and end gender based violence. This toolkit was produced by Laadliyan: Celebrating & Empowering Daughters as part of its mission to inspire South Asian girls and women of all ages to become empowered individuals through engagement, education and awareness.
Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence: Friends and Family Guide
This guide is for friends and family of sexual assault survivors, and anyone hearing disclosures of sexual violence in a non-professional context. This guide provides you with some background information on trauma, helpful things to say, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Intersecting Oppressions Shape Experiences of IPV Faced by Women with Disabilities
This toolkit and infographic shares how an intersectional approach to violence against women with disabilities requires exploring the ways sexism and ableism interact with each other, and with others forms of oppression like colonialism and heteronormativity.
Responding to Disclosures of Teen Dating Violence at School
A webinar that discusses strategies educators can use to handle disclosures of teen dating violence made by students in school settings.
Who, When, How, and Why Bystanders Intervene in Physical and Psychological Teen Dating Violence
An overview of research about what motivates bystanders especially youth to intervene in teen dating violence, and how these interventions happen.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Public Transportation and Vulnerabilities in Rural and Remote Canada
This knowledge synthesis project explores how remote and rural places face a complex array of social, political and economic obstacles in their access to sustainable, accessible, and appropriate public transportation and in exercising mobility rights.
Hear My Cry: Breaking the Code of Silence around Intimate Partner Violence among Black Women in and Beyond Midlife
In this qualitative study, researchers utilized an intersectional approach to examine how IPV is experienced and managed by Black Nova Scotian women in and beyond midlife and their experiences of seeking support.