Help Amanda raise money

recently, the supreme court of canada issued a major decision regarding extreme drunkenness and sexual assault. immediately, a bunch of misinformation started circulating around social media and another local organization shared, in a post that went viral, that this ruling was akin to a free pass for perpetrators. this simply wasn’t true and those words were triggering to many people i know. there’s so much more to the story and i believe organizations that strive to support survivors have an acute responsibility to provide accurate and nuanced information. 

one of the things i’ve always admired about those i work alongside at WAVAW is this commitment. folks here are careful to offer relevant, detailed, and thoughtful information in a way that respects survivors’ dignity and arms them with what they need in order to make informed decisions. i believe this orientation towards support is the only way to truly centre survivors and it’s shaped how i offer care in many of the spaces i exist in.

i’m kicking off grad school in the fall and hoping to raise some needed funds for WAVAW before i end my time here. 

being a part of this org and it’s mission has allowed me to expand beyond what I imagined possible in terms of the support I feel capable of offering as well as my ability to hold complexity and contradiction. my hope is that this org continues to have the ability to centre survivors - particularly those most marginalized - and healing in all aspects of their work. every little donation helps them do that.