Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this contribution is to implement the research project: Violent Misogyny and Radicalization: Understanding Gender Motivations; approximately 1,000 practitioners, educators and professionals across Canada will benefit from the project’s proposed activities.

Stand up against discrimination, hate speech, misogyny and other forms of digital violence!

Victoria Native Friendship Centre will achieve this by addressing systemic racism and misogyny within Island Health healthcare by informing a revised patient bill of rights, hiring a cultural safety facilitator to be part of the newly formed Cultural Safety Engagement Panel initiatives, supporting Indigenous women and girls through the patient empowerment program, and developing and delivering a cultural safety training for settler healthcare practitioners.

Victoria Native Friendship Centre will achieve this by addressing systemic racism and misogyny within South Vancouver Island healthcare by developing an Indigenous Safety in Healthcare Advisory Committee, hiring a cultural safety facilitator to support Indigenous women and girls through the Women’s Health Empowerment Circles, and develop and deliver cultural safety training for Indigenous and non-Indigenous healthcare workers.

This will be achieved by creating safe spaces to empower 30 racialized women and girls in Toronto east impacted by COVID-19 to become feminist leaders; raising public awareness on the impact of misogyny and gender stereotypes on women’s rights through forum meetings with participants, community leaders and policy makers, a media and social media campaign; and by holding organized dialogues with local MPs, MPPs, City Councillors, and School Trustees.
This will lead to positive changes in the attitudes and beliefs of Torontonians; promotion of leadership and equal participation in family, workplace, and community life; an increased leadership role for affected women in challenging misogyny and gender stereotypes; and an expanded role for community women leaders in shaping pandemic recovery responses.

Funding will support work to improve the online tools and resources of the Servicewomen’s Salute Canada Portal, as well as efforts to conduct a scan of existing research on servicewomen’s experiences during COVID-19 and the links between it and online misogyny.

Inter Pares works collaboratively with local counterparts to deepen women’s political power in Sudan through engagement with transitional political structures and foster an environment that supports women’s inclusion and addresses the root causes of misogyny and patriarchy in Sudan. Project activities include advocacy, capacity-building and relationship-building.