Women’s Waves - A podcast by Vancouver Rape Relief

Vancouver Rape Relief

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is committed to advocating for women’s equality. Our centre works as an active force dedicated to challenge the social attitudes, laws and institutional procedures that perpetuate male violence against women and children.

  1. Feb 4

    Episode 26

    In this episode, we talk with our long-time ally, Québécoise radical-feminist lesbian organizer Diane Matte. In this conversation (which we hope is the first of a few), we hear from Diane about her upbringing, as the personal is political, and her feminist activism in the 80s and the 90s.

    50 min

  2. 06/29/2025

    Episode 25

    In this episode we speak with Beaver, Canadian lesbian de-transitioner, whose journey led her to re-identify with womanhood, and become a feminist activist.

    51 min

  3. 05/10/2025

    Episode 24

    In this episode, we hear from our lesbian feminist allies, Susan and Renate, about their personal and political journeys to create and maintain for more than three decades, the independent publishing house, Spinifex.

    56 min

  4. 03/18/2025

    Episode 23

    In this episode we hear from Cenen Bagon from the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers Rights (CDWCR) about the herstory of her group, the campaigns to improve employment conditions, and immigration status of foreign care workers in Canada, and her own life as an activist.

    48 min

  5. 12/15/2024

    Episode 22

    In this episode we talk with Kyungjin Oh from the Korea Women's Associations United (KWAU) about women's oppression and feminist resistance in South Korea.

    1h 7m

  6. 11/06/2024

    Episode 21

    In this episode we talk with our member Laurel about this year's conviction of a Winnipeg man who murdered four indigenous women and recall some of the outrageous failures in the case of Pickton, a British Columbia man who confessed to murdering 49 women from the downtown eastside of Vancouver. We will also hear from Carolyn Jerome who was part of the “militant mothers” and their 1971 fight against the Canadian National Railway.

    52 min

  7. 08/13/2024

    Episode 20

    In this episode we talk with Héma Sibi, the advocacy coordinator at CAP International, about the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the French law that criminalizes buying sexual services, and with our member Laurel, about Canadian police sexual misconduct.

    1 hr

  8. 07/03/2024

    Episode 19

    In this episode we talk with our member, Sonam, on some of the ways patriarchy manifests itself in South Asian communities, and with UK based Lesbian second-wave feminist Lynn Alderson about consciousness raising, women's groups as a radical act and women only spaces as crucial for women's resistance.

    57 min
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Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter is committed to advocating for women’s equality. Our centre works as an active force dedicated to challenge the social attitudes, laws and institutional procedures that perpetuate male violence against women and children.

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