Content warning: femicide, intimate partner violence

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In this episode, Public Educator Cindy McMann sits down for a conversation with Mia Goulden. Mia is the daughter of Marianne Goulden, who was a G-W WIC client who stayed at the shelter after leaving an abusive relationship, and who then went on to give back to women in the Guelph community as a volunteer and a staff member at the shelter before she was killed by a partner in 1992.

Mia talks about her incredible mother, about the tragic end of her mother’s life, the impacts of femicide on her family and about the ways her mother’s beautiful spirit shines on.

In this episode, public educator Cindy McMann sat down with Ariel Oleynikov (she/her), formerly of WHAI (The Women’s HIV/AIDS Initiative) and ARCH (HIV/AIDS Resources and Community Health), which closed in March after 35 years when their funding was discontinued.

Ariel and I talked about her activist work around women living with HIV/AIDS in Guelph and Wellington County, the links between gendered oppression and the HIV epidemic, the beauty of collaborative, community-based health care, the impacts of ARCH closing on Guelph and a lot more.

And then, after the podcast recording, Ariel became G-W WIC's brand new rural public educator! We're so glad you get a chance to meet her!

Resources:

CATIE (The Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange)

WHAI (Women's HIV/AIDS Initiative)

Your Downtown Guelph Friends: yourdowntownguelphfriends

The ArQuives

Marlee Liss on Instagram: marleeliss

The movie Pride

In this episode, Public Educator Cindy McMann chats with Amber Spence, a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Guelph who specializes in sexual violence.

We talk about how philosophy helped Amber in her journey as a survivor, what tools it can offer other survivors, how philosophy misses the mark in academic research on sexual violence and why that matters for the rest of us.

Content Warning: sexual violence, trauma and sexual harm

Resources:

Susan J. Brison, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self

Karyn L. Freedman, One Hour in Paris

“Rethinking the Wrong of Rape”

"The Harm of Disempowerment," "The Problem with Consent," Amber Spence, forthcoming

Linda Martin Alcoff, Rape and Resistance

Nicole K. Jeffrey, “Is Consent Enough: What the Research on Normative Heterosexuality and Sexual Violence Tells Us”

Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

Nicole Dular, “One Too Many: Hermeneutical Excess as Hermeneutical Injustice”

Madeleine Kenyon, "Speaking of ‘Violence:’ Figleaf Use in Sexualized Violence Contexts""