17 episodes

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is committed to advocating for women’s equality. Our centre works as an active force dedicated to challenge the social attitudes, laws and institutional procedures that perpetuate male violence against women and children.

Women's Waves - A podcast by Vancouver Rape Relief Unknown

    • Government
    • 5.0 • 4 Ratings

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is committed to advocating for women’s equality. Our centre works as an active force dedicated to challenge the social attitudes, laws and institutional procedures that perpetuate male violence against women and children.

    Episode 17

    Episode 17

    In this episode we touch on the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women position paper on the definition of “women”, discuss how men prey on women’s economic vulnerability and the federal bills for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income, review the documentary Hidden Letters and listen to Nehanda’s song "I am a Woman".

    • 49 min
    Episode 16

    Episode 16

    In this episode we discuss femicide cases in Canada and in Brazil, review the Women’s Equality Coalition submission on prostitution to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls and listen to Jax’s pop song Victoria’s secret.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Guaranteed Livable Income : BC Women’s Alliance in Conversation with Evelyn Forget & Hannah Owczar

    Guaranteed Livable Income : BC Women’s Alliance in Conversation with Evelyn Forget & Hannah Owczar

    For International Women's Day 2022, we hand the mic to our sisters at the BC Women's Alliance, a coalition of women calling for a guaranteed livable income in Canada.
    Here is their interview with Evelyn Forget and Hannah Owczar, authors of the new book Radical Trust : Basic Income for Complicated Lives.
    http://bcwomensalliance.ca/index.html

    • 38 min
    Pornography Harms Women - Part 2

    Pornography Harms Women - Part 2

    Part 2 of our two part series called "Pornography Harms Women"
    Interview with Izabella Forzani from the Brazilian group Recuse A Clicar, which stands for "Refuse to Click" in English. The group does public education around the impact of pornography on women and is calling for men and women to stop watching pornography.
    Women's Waves is produced in Vancouver (Canada) by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter.

    • 14 min
    Pornography Harms Women - Part 1

    Pornography Harms Women - Part 1

    Part 1 of our two part series called "Pornography Harms Women"
    Working on the frontlines has informed us on how women are impacted by pornography. Our collective member Sophia Hladik shares Vancouver Rape Relief's demands with regards to MindGeek, and revenge porn, before her interview with Meghan Donevan from the Sweden based organization Talita, who supports women exiting the porn industry.
    Women's Waves is produced in Vancouver, Canada, by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter.

    • 37 min
    Lesbian Visibility

    Lesbian Visibility

    April 26th 2021 is Lesbian Visibility Day. For the occasion, we interviewed Liane Timmermann from Get the L Out UK and Natalie Wlock from the Vancouver Lesbian Collective. The episode ends with a poem by lesbian feminist poet Chrystos.

    • 37 min

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