“Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.”
From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.
Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.
Protect our future ancestors. #MMIWG2S
Learn more about what stalking is, how to support a friend, and how to prevent stalking.
Learn how to recognize warning signs of abuse and how to help a friend.
From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.
Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.
“Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.”
On October 4th, we gather to remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit folks we’ve lost to violence and colonialism.
We come together and demand action to prevent the loss of our mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, and daughters.
FREE & not boring workshop for bar & restaurant staff. Learn skills to prevent sexual violence.
Protect our future ancestors. #MMIWG2S
Helpers can help to prevent violence and support survivors.
Helpers can help to prevent violence and support survivors.
January is stalking awareness month
Learn how to recognize warning signs of abuse and how to help a friend.
Bath bombs making and discussion about violence prevention as part of 16 Days of Activism
From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.
Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.
Join us at Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre for series of short films about missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit folks. Films will celebrate strength, joy, skills, and folks living through having family members stolen or missing. Many films feature Two Spirit folks sharing their experiences.
6:30pm
Doors open,
conversation & connection
7pm
Films begin
Free! All are welcome!
Organized by Dawson Women's Shelter and Victim Services as part of Nihè dinch’è jì’ wë̀tä̀zul (it is better when you are with us) life promotion and suicide prevention
October 26th is also Intersex Awareness Day
From InterACT:
“October 26, 1996 marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in the United States. Members of the now defunct Intersex Society of North America and their allies arrived in Boston, MA at the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics. They demonstrated and shared their pain in a very public way, denouncing non-consensual infant genital surgeries and demanding the medical industry take notice. Doctors dismissed the activists as a vocal minority in a 1997 New York Times article covering the intersex action. The tides are slowly changing.”
“Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.
Some intersex traits are noticed at birth. Others don’t show up until puberty or later in life. Intersex people often face shame—or are forced or coerced into changing their bodies, usually at a very young age. Most surgeries to change intersex traits happen in infancy.
The word intersex also invokes a community. Intersex people are diverse, coming from all socioeconomic backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders and orientations, faiths, and political ideologies. We are united by
our experiences living with variations in our sex traits,
the belief that these differences are a natural part of human diversity,
the idea that people deserve their own choices about their own bodies.”
Join us for a gathering, walk along the Yukon River, and bonfire on Front Street in solidarity with the families who have lost Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people to violence and colonialism.
We come together and demand action to prevent the loss of our mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, and daughters.
For May, Sexual Violence Prevention Month, we’re inviting folks to enjoy some coffee, tea, and snacks around the fire. The idea of ending sexual violence can be overwhelming - come meet other folks interested in creating a community free of abuse.
Instagram live chat with Shireen Ahmed - Abuse in Sports and Why Accountability Matters
We’ve heard, “improve women’s health and the whole community’s health improves,” but is the same true for men? Join Tuval and Crickett as they chat about the importance of thinking about gender justice holistically and while avoiding easy simplistic answers.
From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Check out all the events and activities organized by many awesome groups in Dawson.
Keep an eye on dawsonwomensshelter.com for calendar updates, event details, and daily blog posts.
Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.
Join us for a gathering, walk along the Yukon River, and bonfire on Front Street in solidarity with the families who have lost Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people to violence and colonialism.
We come together and demand action to prevent the loss of our mothers, aunties, cousins, sisters, and daughters.
Dawson Women's Shelter is challenging all bar and restaurant staff in Dawson to participate in our Raise the Bar Workshops this summer to prevent sexual violence.
Dawson Women's Shelter is challenging all bar and restaurant staff in Dawson to participate in our Raise the Bar Workshops this summer to prevent sexual violence.
Dawson Women's Shelter is challenging all bar and restaurant staff in Dawson to participate in our Raise the Bar Workshops this summer to prevent sexual violence.
Dawson Women's Shelter is challenging all bar and restaurant staff in Dawson to participate in our Raise the Bar Workshops this summer to prevent sexual violence.
We live in a culture of violence against women, and diet culture helps this violence flourish. Too many forces are telling us to be less, be smaller, and to make sure everything we do is about pleasing men, and being under control. Come learn concrete ways you can change this for those around you, and bring questions!
Trauma and traumatic events can sever our ability to feel safe building relationships. How can kinship, especially with land, water and non human life, inform the spaces in which we grow and thrive? This conversation will meander between struggle as a tool, everyday actions folks can take and how protecting the land and water through kinship can be a process for reconnection and reclamation.
The documentary The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.
