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March 5, 2015

International Women’s Day Celebration

International Women’s Day was founded in 1911 as a fiercely political event—women demanded the right to vote and hold public...

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January 27, 2015

Changing the (rape) Culture

Acknowledging  that we live in a rape culture can be a hard pill for some people to swallow. I think part of some people’s reluctance to rec...

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January 16, 2015

Two Spirit People: A talk by Harlen Pruden (First Nations Cree)

As a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Pride Collective hosted Harlen Pruden to present on Two-Spirit identities in the past and p...

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December 11, 2014

Reviewing Rape Culture on College Campuses

Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault A blog piece published on the SASC website on April 24, 2014 titled “Rape Culture: Real or Fak...

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December 5, 2014

Then and Now: Remembering the Montreal Massacre

December 6th 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre at l’Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal. On December 6, 1989,...

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November 19, 2014

Quick Guide to Cis-Privilege and Trans* Allyship

Transgender day of Remembrance was first created in honour of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was murdered due to anti-transgender ha...

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October 23, 2014

Oppression & Violence (vintage SASC blog)

Before social media was a big thing, back in 2006, the SASC staff wrote this powerful piece on Oppression & Violence, which to our kno...

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October 6, 2014

Got Consent? week 2014!

Brace yourself UBC campus; Consent Week is here and we at the SASC are excited to amplify conversations dealing with consent this week (Oct ...

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July 21, 2014

Integrating Reflection and Compassionate Communication into our Practices

As we grow up in the mainstream education system we are very rarely taught about the idea of self reflection and thinking about ways in wh...

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April 24, 2014

Rape Culture: Real or Fake?

On March 7th of this year, an article titled “Is there an epidemic of ‘rape culture’ at Canadian universities?...

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