'Take Back the Night' goes tonight

Everyone with zero tolerance for sexual and gender based violence is being invited to tonight’s ‘Take Back the Night’ event in North Bay.

Amelia Rising and the local chapter of Women’s March Canada are hosting the event.

There will be a few speeches at City Hall at 7 pm, followed by the march to Amelia Rising.

“Although there are many shifts and successes in the struggle for equality we continue to fight to take us space and feel safe in our streets,” says Mary White, Public Educator at Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre. “We fight with an intersectional framework, recognizing that race, class, gender identity marginalizations increase risk and severity of violence experienced. We are conditioned to believe things such as needing to look down so as to not invite unwanted comments. We are still coached as to what is appropriate to wear and we still hear the ‘well why was she out late at night there and what was she wearing that?’ This is unacceptable and has to stop. Only perpetrators of violence are to blame.”

White encourages people to bring their signs and bring their voice.

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