Equity Office
Contact: equity@uwaterloo.ca
Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office
Contact: svpro@uwaterloo.ca
Who: Students, Faculty and Staff
What: This is a workshop that uses the Anti-Oppression framework to understanding rape culture and its manifestations in learning institutions/on campuses specifically and in our communities more broadly. Through the lens of intersectionality, participants will explore the historical contexts, complexities of BIPOC communities (and their varying intersections) navigating sexual harm within oppressive structures. The resilience and transitional/grassroots interventions within our communities are explored alongside culturally safe & anti-oppressive interventions. The role of allies as well as better organizational/institutional responses will be explored. Practices and principles for fostering brave spaces and a culture of consent will be explored, along with problematizing existing models and practices. Participants will reflect on the disproportionate impact of sexual violence on marginalized individuals and communities.
The session is deeply rooted in transformative justice practices and a culture of care built on meaningful, survivor centred interventions.
Learning Objectives:
Online, 90-minute workshop in a small group setting
This workshop will be facilitated by Rania El Mugammar. Rania is a Sudanese Canadian Artist, Arts Educator, Equity, Anti-oppression, Liberation and Meaningful Inclusion Educator and Consultant, performer, speaker and published writer.
Rania is an experienced anti-oppression, equity, inclusion and liberation educator and consultant who is unflinchingly committed to decolonization and freedom as the ultimate goals of her work.
Equity Office
Contact: equity@uwaterloo.ca
Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office
Contact: svpro@uwaterloo.ca
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Office of Indigenous Relations.