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Kudz Ze Kayah: Used To Be Caribou Country

Kudz Ze Kayah: Used To Be Caribou Country

The non-Indigenous mining company, BMC Minerals, chose to name their mining project the very thing it will compromise: Kaska caribou country. They didn’t name their project “caribou country” in English, either.

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterJanuary 11, 2023sexual violence, prevention, take action, mining, land, language, sovereignty, indigenous, colonialism, reconcilliation

Drin Cho zhìt shò ä̀hłąy

Drin Cho zhìt shò ä̀hłąy

Drin cho zhìt shò ä̀hłąy! What is your intention for the new year?

24 Hour Support Line, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterDecember 31, 2022happy holidays, take care, crisis, dws, services

Drin Tsul zhìt shò ä̀hłąy

Drin Tsul zhìt shò ä̀hłąy

Drin tsul zhìt shò ä̀hłąy! Merry Christmas!

24 Hour Support Line, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterDecember 24, 2022happy holidays, take care, crisis, dws, services

DWS' Feminist Christmas Tree

DWS' Feminist Christmas Tree

We’re wishing for the fall of patriarchy this holiday season. What’s your Christmas wish?

Dawson Women's ShelterDecember 22, 2022christmas, holiday, feminist, feminism

Jùk drin khä̀h zhe dinch'è! Happy Solstice!

Jùk drin khä̀h zhe dinch'è! Happy Solstice!

How are you celebrating the shortest day and longest night?

24 Hour Support Line, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterDecember 21, 2022happy holidays, take care, crisis, dws, services, solstice, Hän

Men Taking Action

Men Taking Action

Men can play a huge role in ending gender-based violence. Men are part of a solution; That means being prepared to interrupt, stand up to, and prevent violence in the spaces we work, live, hang out, and study in.

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterDecember 8, 2022sexual violence, prevention, take action, male allies, men, sexual violence prevention month

Helping a Friend

Helping a Friend

Telling someone about violence, abuse, harassment, or coercion takes a tremendous amount of bravery. Most survivors never tell a helping professional about the violence they have experienced.

Recognizing Risk

Recognizing Risk

By learning the signs of lethality in an abusive relationship, friends and family can help to keep women and children safe and prevent femicide.

Why Femicide Inquests are Important

Why Femicide Inquests are Important

Inquests provide an opportunity for a public examination of a death in the context of looking for system changes that could prevent similar such deaths in the future.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterDecember 5, 2022sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon, inquest, domestic homocide

Resources to End Ableism

Resources to End Ableism

Resources, links, and videos for folks to unlearn ableism and become better allies to disabled folks.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterDecember 3, 2022ableism, disability, resources, book, documentary, unlearning, asl, deaf, queer Comment

Disable Activists to Follow

Disable Activists to Follow

Who are your fave disabled activists to follow? We’ve got some ideas of kickass folks confronting ableism!

Education, Connection, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterDecember 2, 2022autism, disabled, ableism, oppression, audism, deaf, disability, activis Comment

Unlearning Ableism

Unlearning Ableism

Resources, links, and videos for folks to unlearn ableism and become better allies to disabled folks.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterDecember 1, 2022abelism, oppression, disability, justice, invisible disability, curb-cut effect, diability, disabled Comment

What is Gaslighting?

What is Gaslighting?

Gaslighting is a kind of emotional abuse where someone makes you question your reality.

Connection, Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 30, 2022taking action, 16 days, gender based violence, gaslighting, control, manipulation, abuse, tactics of abuse

Gender Justice Must Include Two Spirit, Trans, and Queer Folks

Gender Justice Must Include Two Spirit, Trans, and Queer Folks

As we work to prevent gender-based violence, we need to make sure we’re including Trans, Queer, and Two Spirit Folks.

Consent Education is Violence Prevention

Consent Education is Violence Prevention

Learning and practicing great consent skills is an everyday way to prevent violence.

Education, Consent, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 28, 2022consent, 16 days, 16 days of activism, prevention, education, sex ed, julie lalonde, coercion

Gender-Based Violence: Fact or Fiction?

Gender-Based Violence: Fact or Fiction?

Test your knowledge of gender-based violence. Take the DWS quiz!

Connection, DWS Events, Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 26, 202216 days, gender-based violence, myths, fact, fiction, sexual assault, false reporting

Understanding Gender-Based Violence

Understanding Gender-Based Violence

From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Why do we need 16 Days?

Connection, DWS Events, Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 25, 2022taking action, male allies, 16 days, gender based violence, julie lalonde, kira-lynn ferderber, danielle boissoneau, stalking, kinship, creative action, fatphobia

Transgender Awareness Week Reading List

Transgender Awareness Week Reading List

DWS has got some great books about trans identities if you’re looking to do some reading. Drop-in to borrow one of these awesome reads!

Connection, Taking Action, Understanding Violence, EducationDawson Women's ShelterNovember 17, 2022taking action, 16 days, stalking, tdor, trans day of remembrance, library, reading list, LGBT, lgbqt2sai+, LGBQT, queer, two spirit

Transgender Awareness Week 2022

Transgender Awareness Week 2022

November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week

Connection, Taking Action, Understanding Violence, EducationDawson Women's ShelterNovember 16, 2022taking action, 16 days, tdor, trans day of remembrance, LGBT, lgbqt2sai+, LGBQT, queer, two spirit, transgender awareness week, intersex, yukon, queer yukon, gender

16 Days of Activism - Community Workshops

16 Days of Activism - Community Workshops

Learn the warning signs of abuse and how to help a friend.

Education, Connection, DWS Events, Helping A Friend, Supporting Survivors, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 1, 202216 Days of Activism, gendered violence, gender-based violence, learning, workshop, education, skills, supporting survivors, preventionComment