Join Abolition X Podcast Hosts Richie Reseda and Indigo Mateo in Conversation with Community Justice Initiatives Julian as they explore conversations about sexual harm, accountability, toxic masculinity, and our collective ability to grow more skills and pathways to respond to the needs of survivors.
We Deserve Healing Not Harm is a speaker series focused on generating collective action in response to sexual harm within our communities. Over the past 30 plus years, the feminist anti-violence movement has come to heavily rely on the criminal legal system, and the ways it is mirrored in post-secondary institutions, to address gender-based violence. Since then there has been extensive critique, in particular from Black, Indigenous, and racialized organizers/survivors and their allies, of this deeply embedded alliance. This series is an opportunity to unpack, explore paths for change, and develop responses that align with the needs of many different survivors and their communities. Through speakers, resource sharing, and calls to action we will explore opportunities for justice and healing.
Organizers: Consent Comes First (Toronto Metropolitan University), Consent is Golden (Wilfrid Laurier University), Carleton University Sexual Assault Support Centre, and Community Justice Initiatives Waterloo Region (CJI) are committed to working towards systems that heal rather than harm.