Beendigen
103-100 Anemki Drive P7J1J4 Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

Today begins Victims & Survivors of Crime Week. Thunder Bay Counselling has partnered with Sexual Abuse Centre Thunder Bay and Beendigen to recognize the courage of victims & survivors and renew our commitment to support them. Join us this week! #VictimsWeek

Today is Internationally recognized as the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day of mourning, reflection and mobilization towards collective action. In partic...ular today, we remember Julie Berman, a anti-trans violence advocate and proud Trans Woman killed in Toronto in 2019. 2020 is on record as having the highest rates of anti-trans violence, with murders of 350 trans and gender-diverse people, 98% of which identified as trans women or trans-feminine. Recent research published by Transrespect vs Transphobia - TvT has confirmed COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting trans people globally, in particular the most marginalized including Black and women of colour, sex workers, migrant workers, youth and those with low-incomes. This TDoR 2020, here are 5 steps you can take today towards ending trans violence: 1. Amplify trans voices 2. Commit to concrete actions 3. Highlight resources & information related to trans rights while using a unifying hashtag #TDoR2020. 4. Visit https://buff.ly/2AatLGm to learn more about those being memorialized this year and the history of TDoR- held in November to honor Rita Hester killed on November 28th, 1998 and call attention to anti-transgender hatred, violence and prejudice. 5. Check out the new Trans PULSE Canada project- https://buff.ly/3fgoMIB

Virtual Job Fair coming up this week! Please visit https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beendigen-virtual-job-fair-tick to register in advance!

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign that runs annually from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to December 10 (World Human Rights Day). We are sharing this poster on behalf of the Naadmaagewin Indigenous Domestic Violence Committee, which Beendigen is proud to sit on - www.idvc.ca.

Visit https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beendigen-virtual-job-fair-tick to register for the last day of our Virtual Job Fair which will take place on Saturday at 2pm!

Bay Village Coffee staff wearing their purple scarves in honour of the #wrappedincouragecampaign! Text COURAGE to 41010 to donate $5-25 and show your support for women and children experiencing violence. All proceeds go toward participating Ontario women's shelters.

Join our team! Beendigen will be hosting a Virtual Job Fair on two different dates - November 19 and November 21. Please see poster for details. Visit Eventbrite to register in advance: www.eventbrite.ca/e/beendigen-virtual-job-fair-tickets-1282

Some of our awesome Beendigen staff wearing their purple scarves in honour of the #WrappedInCourage campaign! November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month and we are working all month long to raise money for women’s shelters across Ontario. To donate, text COURAGE to 41010!