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Respect me like you do (From fifty shades of yay!)

ByProject Respect Team 2015 / 04 / 02

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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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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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Life
ByProject Respect Team 2015 / 04 / 02

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…

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Unnamed
ByProject Respect Team 2015 / 04 / 02

by Lissa I am aware I’ve been taught I now know what to do I will not be silenced or keep silent I will teach my learnings to others I know and have the faith that I I am able to make a change I will stand my ground I know that as long as…

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Two spirits, one body: A short narrative of a (short) native queer
ByDraco Recalma 2015 / 08 / 17

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…

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Love At First Sight
ByProject Respect Team 2015 / 04 / 02

– by Angelo It was love at first sight. I was totally convinced! The hottest guy I’ve ever seen. I knew it just had to work. Everyone knows that feeling when you just know, well I just knew. So after that day I didn’t see him until two years later when I moved into the…

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The Power Of Respect
ByProject Respect Team 2015 / 04 / 02

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…

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Swimming
ByDraco Recalma 2015 / 08 / 04

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…

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