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Speaker Series: We Deserve Healing Not Harm
Building a Community Response to the Criminalization of Gender-Based Violence Survivors
We Deserve Healing Not Harm is a speaker series focused on the ongoing widespread criminalization and punishment of survivors of gender-based violence.
This series is an opportunity to unpack, explore paths for change and generate collective action. Through speakers, panels, resource sharing, and calls to action we will explore ways to recognize and challenge the intersecting systems that target and harm survivors.
Join Consent Comes First (Toronto Metropolitan University), Consent is Golden (Laurier), and Sexual Assault Support Centre (Carleton University) as we work towards systems that heal rather than harm.
Upcoming Events
Protected or Dismissed: Responding to the Needs of Black, Indigenous and Racialized Survivors
March 21st 1:00PM-2:30PM
Virtual event
Register here
Black, Indigenous and Racialized communities are systematically targeted with experiences of gender-based violence. These survivors are silenced, dismissed and even criminalized when they seek out support, safety, and accountability. We know that Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities have been intentionally excluded from shaping and implementing interventions that respond to their experiences of harm. This panel will hear from experts Rima M. Hanna, Patrina Duhaney, and Audrey Huntley as they discuss the realities of the violence experienced in these targeted communities and strategies for healing, action, and justice.
Topics
Topics for 2022/23 include:
- Who Gets Protected and Who Gets Dismissed
- Criminalization of Sexual Assault Survivors
- Discrimination, Violence and Healing Within Marginalized Communities.
- Stories Spark Change Keynote - TBA
Past Events
Check back for more speaker series events.
Jan. 23, 2023 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. | Virtual
Join internationally renowned writer, activist, musician, and facilitator adrienne maree brown for an in-depth conversation on joy, pleasure, and healing. This virtual event will feature student poetry and artwork, and the conversation will be moderated by Keneisha Charles.
adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the author/editor of seven published texts and the founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, where she is now the writer-in-residence.
We are also looking for Black, Indigenous and racialized undergraduate and graduate students to submit artwork and/or poetry for this event. Selected artists will be paid an honorarium. We are looking for art submissions to focus on healing, care, and joy or specifically inspired by adrienne maree brown’s work. The deadline for all submissions is Monday January 16th, learn more and apply via the link in the bio.
Stories Spark Change is part of Consent Action Week, an educational initiative held during the last week of January at universities across Ontario. The week is an opportunity for campus communities to create a dialogue about consent, pleasure, relationships and increase understanding of sexual violence. It's also an opportunity to raise awareness of both on and off-campus services. The Ontario University Sexual Violence Network created Consent Action Week.
Stories Spark Change is being organized by: Toronto Metropolitain University, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Carleton University, University of Guelph, Western University, York University, and Queen's University.
Oct. 25, 2022 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. | Virtual, Zoom | Register for the event.
Survivors of sexual assault incarcerated, sued, harassed and vilified when they should be supported. This expert panel will explore how sexual assault survivors are often subjected to criminalization. Join expert Dr. Mandi Gray, Tracy Booth and Kharoll-Ann Souffrant to explore the impacts of these unjust laws, strategies for change, and areas for action.
From left to right: Tracy Booth, Kharoll-Ann Souffrant and Mandi Gray.