New Bystander Intervention Training Program
219 Main St. B2G2C1 Antigonish, NS, Canada

On the amazing work of OurTurn / À notre tour

"One of the most disturbing aspects of her treatment, the woman said, was the reaction she received from a staff member in the emergency department. 'Initially, her response was: ‘oh great, we’re going to have to shut the emergency room down for several hours in order to do a rape kit’ (because of the staff who would be required to conduct the examination).' 'I felt, that I wasn’t worthy. I wasn’t worthy of her time. I wasn’t worthy of the emergency department’s time, I wasn...’t worthy of any of this, you know, kind of lost in the wind.'" This is abysmal treatment. All hospital staff should have trauma-informed sexual violence training. All hospitals should have accessed to specially trained Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE Nurses). A rape kit is NOT a waste of time. Furthermore, advancements in forensic science mean that even if you have waited some time to come forward it is STILL possible to collect evidence in a kit. No one should be turned away.

Student-activist Mandi Gray's documentary film "Slut or Nut: Diary of a Rape Trial" is coming to the province. You can see on Sept. 25th at St. Mary's in the Sobey Theatre at 6:30 PM OR ... on September 26th at St. FX in the Immaculata Auditorium at 7PM Mandi will be at both screenings for an intro and Q&A.

St. FX is launching a new campus initiative to address sexualized violence called Visible @ X Like their facebook page to find out more! https://www.facebook.com/Visible-at-X-251211102395869/

"Hookup culture and the sexual assault epidemic seemed to be two looming forces on the same campus, in the same bedrooms, existing in parallel but never openly intersecting. In a place where so many of our experiences and dialogues revolved around sex, there seemed to be no space to talk about sexual assault."