MSVU Feminist Collective

11/30/2020

Adsum for Women and Children: "As we all brace ourselves to respond to the second wave of the pandemic, we are asking you to consider making a gift to support our work. It means more than you will ever know."

11/21/2020

No time to waste, yet governments slow to respond to Nova Scotia housing emergency

11/13/2020

The Survivor Support Centre, Dalhousie Student Union, is proud to announce weekly survivor-centered wellness workshops with Jungle Flower of Reclaim Your Voice, Toronto. These workshops are open to all Nova Scotian post-secondary students, of all genders, and are held every Wednesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm, AST, via Zoom. Please register with your university or NSCC email at [email protected] This is an opportunity to connect with other survivors and break the isolation that often follows trauma. You will not be pressured to share at any time, but you will have opportunities to do so if you wish. Create a comfy space for yourself, have something ready to write with and we'll see you Wednesday evening!

10/09/2020

New program! We are so happy to be partnering with Alice House to offer Alice On The Go, beginning in late October.

Alice On The Go is a distance learning program for women who want to improve their relationships with those around them and with themselves.

10/07/2020

It's here! Check out our new report on second stage shelters in Canada. This study is the first of its kind in Canada to examine the spectrum of supports for survivors of IPV and how second stage shelters address and close housing gaps and break the cycle of abuse.

Read the full report here: http://www.endvaw.ca/secondstage

09/30/2020

A P.E.I. music teacher and actor who pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of sexual interference for incidents involving a girl under the age of 16 will be back in court in November for sentencing. Aaron Phillip Crane, 36, appeared before Justice

09/29/2020

An African Nova Scotian community activist who had been planning to bring a Black Lives Matter mural to the Halifax Regional Municipality for months says that the municipality took on the project without her input or that of other q***r Black people,

09/27/2020

Victims of domestic abuse are encouraged not to discuss it in family court, or risk being accused of turning the children against the other parent.

09/24/2020

09/21/2020

Advocate Lani Elliott says she has had more people reach out to her since the lockdown. Photo courtesy of Lani Elliott Domestic violence survivors are turning to social media for help in dangerous situations during the COVID-19 lockdown, according to the administrator of a Facebook group for survivo...