Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
This webpage is a centralized hub for resources related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from organizations across British Columbia, as well as key national and international research. We will continue to update this webpage as further resources become available.
Toolkit for Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
This companion toolkit accompanies the report “Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services,” and details key barriers for racialized survivors seeking safety and offers best practices in developing anti-racist interventions that better supports Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors.
Leading with Abundance: Transformative Justice as a Framework for Change
A recording of WomenatthecentrE’s 3-part virtual event discussing Transformative Justice as a framework for change.
Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
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 B.C.
Literature Review: Intersections between Safety and Employment amongst Racialized Women
This literature review explores existing research on the relationship between employment and intimate partner violence, with a focus on the experience of racialized survivors.
Tensions of 2SLGBTQIA+ Structural Inclusion Within the GBV Sector
This webinar explores how the dominance of structural and dichotomous gender binaries within the gender-based violence (GBV) sector still impacts how 2SLGBTQIA+ or sexual and gender diverse people are included, treated, or recognized within the sector, especially within service delivery.
Native Women’s Association of Canada Research Toolkit
This toolkit offers guiding information on where to start and what to expect when facilitating, or coordinating, community-based research. This toolkit is part of NWAC’s plan to build research infrastructure, mentorship, and leadership in order to lead more intentional, comprehensive, intersectional, and culturally-grounded research to advance health priorities of Indigenous women, two-spirit, and gender-diverse people.
Submission to the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Regarding Immigration Detention in Provincial Correctional Facilities
This submission argues that international human rights standards indicate that immigration detention should never be punitive in nature and must not take place in facilities intended to house individuals accused or convicted of a criminal act. This submission further argues that the practice of holding immigration detainees in provincial correctional centres in B.C must end.
Building the Table: Discussing Tensions of 2SLGBTQIA+ Structural Inclusion Within the GBV Sector
This report discusses how the dominance of a structural gender binary within the gender based violence (GBV) sector still impacts how 2SLGBTQIA+ or gender and sexual diverse people are included, treated, and recognized within the sector. Research, funding, legislation, and service delivery have also been impacted, and are reinforced by an archetype created to understand violence as a victim-perpetrator cisgender heteronormative experience.