Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
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.
Criminal Harassment Infographic
This infographic contains some valuable information about criminal harassment in Canada, what it is, and what it looks like online.
My Work Should Not Cost Me My Life
This reports lays the evidentiary and legal groundwork for sex workers to have access to healthy and safe working conditions, to address law enforcement concerns about violence and abuse in the sex industry, and to ensure that sex workers’ choices and autonomy are respected.
#Cybermisogyny: Using and strengthening Canadian legal responses to gendered hate and harassment online
This report analyzes five common manifestations of cyber misogyny: revenge porn; non-consensual sharing of intimate images among youth; child sexual exploitation; cyberstalking; and gender-based hate speech online.
Factsheet: Women with Disabilities and Violence
This backgrounder explains how violence against women and girls with disabilities is not just a subset of gender-based violence; it is an intersectional category dealing with gender -based and disability-based violence.