Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
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.
Indigenous Girls and the Violence of Settler Colonial Policing
In cities and towns across Canada, Indigenous girls are being hunted, harassed, and criminalized by local law enforcement agents and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These normalized outbreaks of state control are reflective of Indigenous girls’ daily realities embedded within the structure of an ongoing settler colonial social context that has strategically invented the criminal justice system to secure and maintain settler sovereignty.
If Your Child is Taken
This brochure explains child protection law and what parents or guardians can do if the Director of Child Welfare removes their child or plans to remove their child from the home.
Reducing Barriers to Support for Women Fleeing Violence: A Toolkit for Supporting Women with Varying Levels of Mental Wellness and Substance Use
This toolkit provides transition housing programs, and other service providers that support women, with tools to effectively provide services to women fleeing violence who have varying levels of mental wellness and/or substance use.
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.