May is Sexual Violence Awareness Month (SVAM) in Alberta, and to bring to light the importance of consent within our community, the University of Calgary, Bow Valley College (BVC) and Mount Royal University (MRU) collaborated to build a new workshop that focuses on creating communities of care. Rethinking Consent: Creating Communities of Care,
is a two-part workshop that aims to promote the necessity of consent when forming all of our relationships, not just intimate ones.
Carla Bertsch, UCalgary’s sexual violence support advocate, spoke with the
Gauntlet on the new workshop she’s been working on and the collaboration UCalgary has had with the two other Calgary based universities.