Respect me like you do (From fifty shades of yay!)
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Respect me like you do (From fifty shades of yay!) By Project respect’s Rhizome Youth Social Action Team #TopLeft from Jessica Pamplona on Vimeo.
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Respect me like you do (From fifty shades of yay!) By Project respect’s Rhizome Youth Social Action Team #TopLeft from Jessica Pamplona on Vimeo.
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.
By Jessie, age 17 The voices harsh and foreign eat away at my being. SLUT, WHORE, BITCH. Why? Why am I being called these names? Is it me? It must be. It’s all my fault. This dialogue burns through my mind. The thought that maybe this is all I am. It feels as though my…
By Laura, age 16 You try and convince me I am nothing, just a worthless ‘thing’ to be toyed with. You label me in order to have control over me, but your words cannot cage me. I will not be beaten down with this torment I do not deserve. I am not yours to treat…
by Lindsay, age 17 He looked me in the eyes, And brushed my hair out of my face From the way he touched my skin I knew where this was going. I’d been in this situation before: Other guys, another place, different moments. But the energy of anticipation mingled with The breathlessness of nerves Were…
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…
Project Respect is partnering with Beangka Elliott and the Tsartlip community to initiate a youth led land restoration project that will focus on public spaces in Tsartlip. Together Beangka, Graham and myself will work on invasive species removal, garbage removal, native plant restoration, plant identification, plant propagation and native plant harvesting. We will also have the…