{"id":73494,"date":"2021-11-18T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T03:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=73494"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:16:59","slug":"colour-of-violence-aims-at-positioning-racialized-survivors-at-the-center-of-anti-violence-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/colour-of-violence-aims-at-positioning-racialized-survivors-at-the-center-of-anti-violence-work\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Colour of Violence&#8217; project aims at positioning racialized survivors at the center of anti-violence work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Battered Women Support Services (BWSS) saw a near doubling of requests for services.<\/p>\n<p>Partly in response to this spike, as well as in response to BC\u2019s upcoming anti-racism legislation, BWSS has begun a multi-year project called \u201cColour of Violence\u201d that will examine violence against racialized women.<\/p>\n<p>BWSS's Executive Director Angela Marie MacDougall spoke with CFRO about the need to \u201clook at the systemic, institutional, and historic underpinnings of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>'Colour of Violence' also, \"aim to challenge the homogenization of 'women of colour' and tend to the specific experiences of Black, Indigenous, migrant\/refugee, and women and gender diverse survivors of colour,\" MacDougall said.<\/p>\n<p>The project will take several years to complete with the ultimate goal of \u201cchanging behaviors\u2026in terms of how the system responds to survivors,\u201d adds MacDougall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFRO interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, Battered Women Support Services (BWSS) saw a near doubling of requests for services. Partly in response to this spike, as well as in response to BC\u2019s upcoming anti-racism legislation, BWSS has begun a multi-year project called \u201cColour of Violence\u201d that will examine violence against racialized women. BWSS&#8217;s Executive Director Angela Marie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":73498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3265],"tags":[11348,11347,994,11349,3138,4894],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73494"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=73494"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=73494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}