{"id":8381,"date":"2019-10-25T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2020-01-27T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T20:13:32","slug":"taking-back-the-night-at-guelph-humber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/?p=8381","title":{"rendered":"Taking Back the night at Guelph-Humber"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he signs were colourful in spite of clear, strong messages: \u201cNO means NO\u201d and \u201cNo More Violence.\u201d Staff and Students painted the posters for this year\u2019s Take Back the Night march, supporting sexual violence survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Consent Peer Educators, providing education to students surrounding sexual violence, also assisted at the sign-making event and encouraged the community to get involved in the activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSexual Violence is a very stigmatized topic and we don\u2019t often feel comfortable talking about it. We\u2019re lucky at Guelph-Humber and Humber to have something like this because a lot of schools don\u2019t and so these topics aren\u2019t talked about openly again,\u201d consent peer educator, Mackenzie Boers said.<\/p>\n<p>The march not only focuses on women who have been victims of sexual violence, \u201cit\u2019s something that crosses racial lines, it crosses gender and sexuality lines,\u201d Jessica Pilfold, student-life coordinator said.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also the co-chair for TBTN and said everyone is affected because they likely know someone who is affected by this issue.<\/p>\n<p>The march \u201cbridges different communities and identities on campus to all come together and support one another,\u201d Pilfold said.<\/p>\n<p>Some students said that TBTN is a \u201csafe place\u201d where they know others in the march that have similar or shared experiences will be standing beside them.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Martin, Ignite and justice studies student said, \u201cThe fact that we&#8217;re doing it every year definitely makes a statement that we feel strongly about it and how important it is to us at Guelph-Humber and Humber, how big it is for everyone to understand this concept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the TBTN Committee, this year&#8217;s march will focus on the artistic expression of people\u2019s lived experience in gender-based violence. Guests that will present their artwork, songs, poetry and dances are Alumni at Guelph-Humber.<\/p>\n<p>The Take Back the Night March is on September 28, at 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The signs were colourful in spite of clear, strong messages: \u201cNO means NO\u201d and \u201cNo More Violence.\u201d Staff and Students painted the posters for this year\u2019s Take Back the Night march, supporting sexual violence survivors. Consent Peer Educators, providing education to students surrounding sexual violence, also assisted at the sign-making event and encouraged the community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":8382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[47,89,62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gh360.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}