Mt. Doug Artwork

This painting was created by members of the Respect Revolution Campaign at Mt. Doug Secondary in 2006!
This painting was created by members of the Respect Revolution Campaign at Mt. Doug Secondary in 2006!
Project Respect brings together youth and adults to create awareness and dialogue about sexualized violence by encouraging critical thinking about root causes such as gender expectations and stereotypes, systems of power, and the ongoing colonization of the lands and systems we live in.
This week has been full of adventure and brainstorming. Getting to know Kim, Rebecca and Sage has been a delight. In the beginning of the week we attended a “Youth and Food Security” event at the Quadra Village Community Centre where we had the chance to explore our own ideas and share them with others…
This blog post was graciously shared with Project Respect and written by the most fabulous Jasper Malchuk Rasmussen, who was last year’s youth employee at PR. Today I went swimming for the first time since I started have the gender feels. It was a free outdoor pool (woah!), and as I was slightly drowning my…
It’s true, men and women had and do have traditional roles in Indigenous cultures (if you have a problem with that, remember that the violent patriarchy was a construct of the colonizers). It is also true but not widely known, that before colonization, people who were queer and/or transgender were revered in most Indigenous cultures. There…
We are very excited to announce that we are offering our third Youth Social Action Camp, a two night sleepover conference at Camp Barnard. We are inviting youth to explore why sexualized violence and exclusion happens, identify issues that are relevant in their local communities and create youth-led social action projects to address these issues….
So our three-day “Rooted In Respect” summer camp has came and went! It felt surreal when the first day begun because we’ve all dedicated our time planning this event that when the day arrived it felt a bit weird seeing it sprout from ideas that were our own, a good weird though. Before I…
This workshop will focus on the benefits, uses and harvest of wild rose hips (nootka rose) hips. We will start the workshop with some wild rose 101 knowledge and then work as groups to make different wild rose tea blends and rose hip jam. The second half of the workshop, we will host a facilitated…