Back in the USSR begins 2022 in conversation with Jensen Williams, the Public Educator of Guelph-Wellington Women In Crisis, a local feminist community-based organization providing support services to women experiencing abuse and sexual violence. Specifically, we discuss how the ongoing pandemic has exacerbated the threat of gender-based violence for huge numbers of women across Canada and how capitalism and economic austerity have fueled this violence in many ways. We explore how state violence regularly intersects with gender-based violence and the role that colonialism and racism plays in this. But above all, we focus on how people can take action in their own communities and organizations to confront and defeat this violence so that the right to live in peace can be realized by all. This is what's going on.
Marvin Gaye - "Whats Going On"
The blog post for this episode of Back in the USSR, including links to all featured content: https://proletarianguardbackintheussr.blogspot.com/2022/01/combating-sexual-violence-through.html
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