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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 10:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Consent Booth

As part of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office's (SVPRO) Fall Consent Week, visit our Consent Booth in the Student Life Centre (SLC) during Campus Life Fair on Wednesday, September 20th from 11AM-4PM. Learn about consent, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), and collect free SVPRO swag! Together, let's build a #ConsentCulture on campus.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Gender-Based Violence & Social Media

Understanding how tech-facilitated gender-based violence happens in our modern society is very important yet lacks a distinct piece of the mainstream narrative around gender-based violence prevention efforts.

We will examine how it happens and give smart practices around prevention efforts.

Register at: https://uwaterloo.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=7546

Thursday, September 21, 2023 11:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Consent Booth

As part of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office's (SVPRO) Fall Consent Week, visit our Consent Booth in Engineering 7 (E7) on Thursday September 21st from 11AM-4PM. Learn about consent, the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), and collect free SVPRO swag! Together, let's build a #ConsentCulture on campus.

Thursday, September 21, 2023 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Take Back the Night

A Call to End Gender-Based Violence.

Save the date! Take Back the Night returns to Waterloo Region this year with activities and a march taking place at Gaukel Block in Downtown Kitchener. Join us for 40 years of Take Back the Night, and make your voice heard!
Thursday, September 21, 2023
6 - 9 p.m.
Gaukel Block, Downtown Kitchener
  • March
  • Speeches and Performers
  • Community Information
  • Activities for all Ages
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

What Were You Wearing? Exhibit

What Were You Wearing? Exhibit

The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO), in partnership with the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Treatment Centre (SADVTC), are bringing the What Were You Wearing? Art Exhibit to the University of Waterloo.

The exhibit recreates outfits worn by university students when they experienced sexual violence. Sexual violence survivors are often asked, “what were you wearing?”, implying that what someone wears is the cause of sexual violence.

This semester, the SVPRO and the SASVTC are recreating the exhibit to highlight the pervasiveness of victim-blaming and the harm and trauma it causes survivors.

This myth about sexual violence is used to blame survivors and justify the actions of those who cause harm. Survivors are never to blame for their experience(s) of sexual violence. We all have the right to wear what we want. 

Sexual violence myths, also known as rape myths, want us to believe that survivors ‘ask for it’ through their behaviour and manner of dress. But the fact is that no behaviour or manner of dress justify sexual violence - the onus is on the person causing harm not to do so.

You can visit the Exhibit in the SLC multi-purpose room Tuesday, October 24 and Wednesday, October 25 from 10am – 8pm. Everyone is welcome!

Engage with the exhibit at your own pace.

Questions can be directed to: Stacey Jacobs, s3jacobs@uwaterloo.ca

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

What Were You Wearing? Exhibit

What Were You Wearing? Exhibit

The Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office (SVPRO), in partnership with the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Treatment Centre (SADVTC), are bringing the What Were You Wearing? Art Exhibit to the University of Waterloo.

The exhibit recreates outfits worn by university students when they experienced sexual violence. Sexual violence survivors are often asked, “what were you wearing?”, implying that what someone wears is the cause of sexual violence.

This semester, the SVPRO and the SASVTC are recreating the exhibit to highlight the pervasiveness of victim-blaming and the harm and trauma it causes survivors.

This myth about sexual violence is used to blame survivors and justify the actions of those who cause harm. Survivors are never to blame for their experience(s) of sexual violence. We all have the right to wear what we want. 

Sexual violence myths, also known as rape myths, want us to believe that survivors ‘ask for it’ through their behaviour and manner of dress. But the fact is that no behaviour or manner of dress justify sexual violence - the onus is on the person causing harm not to do so.

You can visit the Exhibit in the SLC multi-purpose room Tuesday, October 24 and Wednesday, October 25 from 10am – 8pm. Everyone is welcome!

Engage with the exhibit at your own pace.

Questions can be directed to: Stacey Jacobs, s3jacobs@uwaterloo.ca

Bridge 2023: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People

An annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.

Opening Ceremony: Friday, October 27 at 10:00 AM

For the Opening Ceremony, we are requesting volunteers to read the names — please contact Sorouja Moll

Both ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the bridge between Environment 3 and United College, and will be followed by a catered Creative Reflection and Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) with support from the Department of Communication Arts.

Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.

The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it.

Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

All are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and supported by the Department of Communication Arts after the Opening and Closing Ceremonies from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Al McDonald is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper. 

Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.

The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it. Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. 

Watch the Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People 2019 video.

Bridge 2023: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People

An annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.

Opening Ceremony: Friday, November 10 at 10:00 AM

For the Opening Ceremony, we are requesting volunteers to read the names — please contact Sorouja Moll

Both ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the bridge between Environment 3 and United College, and will be followed by a catered Creative Reflection and Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) with support from the Department of Communication Arts.

Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.

The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it.

Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

All are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and supported by the Department of Communication Arts after the Opening and Closing Ceremonies from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Al McDonald is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper. 

Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.

The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it. Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. 

Watch the Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People 2019 video.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Healthy Relationships & Consent Virtual Workshop

As part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, join SVPRO, in collaboration with SASC, for a virtual workshop as they explore what a healthy or unhealthy relationship can look like, sound like, and feel like. This workshop will have a focus on building consent culture awareness with tactics and tips to practicing healthy consent in all aspects of our lives, intimate relationships, or otherwise. 

Register at

Teams link to join workshophttps://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2E0YWQ2M2QtZWU4OC00NzcwLWJiNzUtOWRjY2IxODJkZjJm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2234511a57-a295-45a8-9792-01bd367c2fef%22%7d

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

16 Days Consent Booth

In honour of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, join SVPRO at our Consent Booth in SLC from 12-4PM. Together, let's work towards building a culture of consent on campus, and advance gender equity.

To learn more about 16 Days and our initiatives honouring the annual event, please visit: https://uwaterloo.ca/sexual-violence-prevention-response-office/get-involved/16-days-activism-against-gender-based-violence