DWS Summer Workshop Series

Summer has arrived in Dawson and DWS has a jam packed schedule of awesome workshops!

Education, DWS Events, Connection, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterJune 8, 2021prevention, support, skills, connection, workshops, garden

Raise the Bar - Chat with Viki from Gerties

Viki from Diamond Tooth Gerties and Crickett from DWS chat about how bartenders and servers can practice skills to interrupt sexual violence. Guest appearance by Captain Porkchop!

Yukon Women’s Organizations Call Upon Yukon Party to Address Gender-Based Violence

“We need diverse spaces, places that welcome all voices in politics. So these comments really only serve to tell women and LGBTQ2S+ people that there's no place for them.” - Kluane Adamek, Yukon regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations

Raise the Bar Dawson

Dawson Women's Shelter is challenging all bar and restaurant staff in Dawson to participate in our Raise the Bar Workshops this summer to prevent sexual violence.

Period Poverty

34% of [people who menstruate] in Canada have had to regularly or occasionally sacrifice something else within their budget to afford menstrual products. DWS has got your back! Call 993.5086 if you need pads, tampons, or a menstrual cup. Plus some bonus busting of transphobia!

Education, Taking Action, Drop InDawson Women's ShelterApril 16, 2021empowerment, strength, celebrate, 2021, period, period poverty, menstrual, menstrateComment

Queer Kid's Books at DWS

Thanks to a generous donation from Queer Yukon, DWS has some fab new LGBQT2SA+ and social justice kid’s books in our library.

Drop-in to read them with your littles or borrow them for at-home reading.

Education, DWS Events, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterMarch 15, 2021alphabet soup, lgbqt, queer, trans, unicorn, gender, lgbqt2sai+, two spirit, asl, american sign languageComment

IWD 2021 ✊✊✊

We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterMarch 11, 2021IWD, International Women's Day, Anthem, empowerment, strength, celebrate, 2021, choose to challenge, choose to celebrateComment

Queer ASL

Learn some queer vocab in American Sign Language!

Education, DWS Events, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterMarch 9, 2021alphabet soup, lgbqt, queer, trans, unicorn, gender, lgbqt2sai+, two spirit, asl, american sign languageComment

International Women's Day 2021

Feminist anthems to celebrate International Women’s Day!

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterMarch 8, 2021IWD, International Women's Day, Anthem, empowerment, strength, celebrate, 2021Comment

IWD 2021: Feminist Recovery

“Women are nearly twice as likely than men to lose their jobs during the COVID-19 crisis. Indeed, the pandemic will dramatically increase the poverty rate for women and widen the gap between men and women who live in poverty.” - United Nations

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterMarch 7, 2021IWD, International Women's Day, Anthem, empowerment, strength, celebrate, 2021, gender, equityComment

IWD 2021: Gender Equity

“Women are nearly twice as likely than men to lose their jobs during the COVID-19 crisis. Indeed, the pandemic will dramatically increase the poverty rate for women and widen the gap between men and women who live in poverty.” - United Nations

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterMarch 6, 2021IWD, International Women's Day, Anthem, empowerment, strength, celebrate, 2021, gender, equityComment

IWD 2021: Choose to Challenge, Choose to Celebrate

We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterMarch 5, 2021IWD, International Women's Day, Anthem, empowerment, strength, celebrate, 2021, choose to challenge, choose to celebrate Comments

Celebrating Lucille Hunter and Her Legacy of Badassery

Lucille was one of the first black women to arrive in the Klondike and the only one documented to have been both a prospector and a miner during the Gold Rush.

Education, ConnectionDawson Women's ShelterFebruary 24, 2021yukon, history, black history month, black futures month, strong women, lucille hunter

Black Futures Podcasts

Fill your ears with podcasts that celebrate Black culture!

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterFebruary 19, 2021taking action, february, black history month, black futures month, black lives matter, podcast, podcasts

February is Black Futures Month

Links, videos, and resources to (re)learn and recommit to honouring Black people and ending anti-Black racism.

Education, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterFebruary 4, 2021myths, lies, unlearning, february, black history month, black futures month

Listen to Sex Workers

Today, December 17, is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Learn more about sex work, from sex workers.

Taking Action, Understanding Violence, EducationDawson Women's ShelterDecember 17, 2020taking action, library, reading, sex work, sex workers, international day to end violence against sex workers, rights not rescue, listen

Ending Fatphobia to End Violence

Mähsi cho to Kira-Lynn Ferderber and SPARCC Sarasota for sharing knowledge. These links are based on her workshop Ending Fatphobia in Our Shelters.

Taking Action, Understanding Violence, EducationDawson Women's ShelterDecember 9, 2020taking action, 16 days, fat liberation, fatphobia, body positivity

Ending Fatphobia Reading List

DWS has got a fab selection of books to deepen our understanding of how gender-based violence happens and to create a world based on consent

Connection, Taking Action, Understanding Violence, Education, Drop In, ServicesDawson Women's ShelterDecember 8, 2020taking action, 16 days, library, reading, fatphobia

Three things I love about Kinship

Kinship reminds me that I deserve good things and so do my friends, family and community. We deserve to live in a world where we don’t have to seek these relationships, rather they are the fabric of our societies.

Connection, DWS Events, Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterDecember 7, 2020taking action, 16 days, gender based violence, danielle boissoneau, kinship, creative action, allies, relationships, capitalism, colonialism, mmiw, mmiwg2s

Men Taking Action

Men can play a huge role in ending gender-based violence. Men are part of a solution; That means being prepared to interrupt, stand up to, and prevent violence in the spaces we work, live, hang out, and study in.

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterDecember 4, 2020sexual violence, prevention, take action, male allies, men, sexual violence prevention month

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