Author: Project Respect Team

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.
What does it mean to be a guest? | Reflections from a workshop about Coast Salish laws and governance

What does it mean to be a guest? | Reflections from a workshop about Coast Salish laws and governance

What does it mean to be a guest? If we went to someone’s house, how would we behave?  Last month, our colleagues and friends Chaw-win-is and Lacey Jones offered a workshop to the VSAC team about Coast Salish laws and settler relationships to local Indigenous nations. The majority of Project Respect’s work takes place on…

Life

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…