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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.

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ByDraco Recalma

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…

Silver Spork
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Dear Privileged Optional Diet Enthusiasts

ByMikayla Milne

Dear Privileged Vegetarians/Vegans/Super food/non-gluten enthusiasts,   It’s me again. Excited? So first off it’s important to recognize that once, I was just like you. But then, I evolved. No I’m just kidding, I wish. But wouldn’t it be great if being a better person was that simple? Instead it starts with reflection and change to…

rainbow flag with the medicine wheel in the middle (quartered into colours: black, white, yellow, and red)
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Two spirits, one body: A short narrative of a (short) native queer

ByDraco Recalma

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…

Lost

ByProject Respect Team

by Ling Who is the girl crying in the rain? Why is she crying? Why is there confusion in her eyes? Oh…I know who she is. She is another me, The fragile, insecure me-a follower I’m shivering in the cruel reality Alien voices penetrating like needles Telling me what to do Imply, As long as…