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Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s “I Don’t Owe You Campaign” is a sexualized violence/abuse awareness and prevention campaign about the complexities of sexual consent, misogyny, male entitlement, bodily autonomy, and empowerment. 

The Native Women’s Association of Canada’s page on Missing and Murdered Indigenous women. Includes various reports, links, and videos.

The Paqtnkek Responding to and Preventing Sexual Violence Project was created to respond to the lack of culturally relevant, revitalizing and safe approaches to addressing sexualized violence in their community. The Paqtnkek Health Centre and the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre & Sexual Assault Services Association worked together to develop Mi’kmaq-specific and community driven initiatives to respond to and prevent sexualized violence.

Femifesto’s interview with two gender-based violence activists who live with disabilities, Jess Rueger, a queer person with a disability and community mobilizer, and Marianne M. Park, a woman with a disability who has worked in the violence against women field in varying capacities for 28 years.

Project Slut founder Andrea Villanueva, a Mexican-based artist with a disability, and Chenthoori Malankov, a Toronto-based Tamil community organizer and advocate, speak to Femifesto about media representation of racialized victims/survivors.

A U.S.-based network of radical feminists of colour “working to end violence against women, gender non-conforming, and trans people of color, and our communities.” 

A guide to supporting victim/survivors by UBUNTU, a U.S. based movement “led by women of color and survivors of sexual assault, dedicated to creating a world without sexual violence”, and Men Against Rape Culture. MARC is “a multi-racial, anti-racist organization of men in Durham, NC, committed to ending the epidemic of male violence by attacking it at its roots.”

• enough/enough - This collection, enough / enough, focuses on survivors identifying as trans and non-binary seeking safety in impossible-seeming places. 

• Giving Voice to Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Violence article about enough/enough, Ms. Magazinehttp://msmagazine.com/blog/2017/03/10/giving-voice-trans-non-binary-survivors-sexual-violence/

Femifesto spoke to Halifax-based African Nova Scotian spoken word artist, teacher and activist El Jones and Mooky Cherian of the Ontario-based Prisoner’s HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) about sexual violence in prisons

Just Detention International is a U.S.-based organization that works with people who are or were incarcerated “to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention”. This site includes first-person accounts of sexual violence.

Federal cyberbullying law introduced in 2015.

A documentary about Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old Dartmouth woman, who died by suicide after photos of her alleged gang rape were electronically circulated amongst her peers. Rehtaeh was continuously harassed, slut-shamed, and blamed for her assault.

This stop-motion animation video was informed by a survey of girls, young women, and genderqueer and non-binary youth from across Canada on the topic of cyberviolence.

West Coast LEAF - a BC organization dedicated to promoting women’s equality through the law - provides a gender-based analysis of cyber violence.

This is a woman-centred digital literacy resource to help adults support girls and young women experiencing cyberviolence in a compassionate and non-judgemental way.

Start By Believing is a public awareness campaign that seeks to create positive communities, inform the public, unite allies and supporters, and improve responses to survivors of sexualized violence. Because negative responses can further trauma and foster unaccountable communities, Start By Believing raises awareness dedicated to ending the cycle of silence and moving towards justice and healing for survivors of sexualized violence.

'Draw The Line' is an interactive campaign that aims to engage Ontarians in a dialogue about sexual violence. The campaign challenges common myths about sexual violence and equips bystanders with information on how to intervene safely and effectively.

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture is a creative activist collaboration to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. FORCE designs communications campaigns to generate media attention and get millions of people talking.