Transforming Justice is Quickly Approaching! Transforming Justice 2025: A Joint National Conference of Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies, May 14th to 16th, 2025. Come see Carol Bilson present! The departments of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies’…
I was grateful to work with Kate Crozier, Sarah Scanlon, and Jude Oudshoom recently on a webinar for the Zehr Insitute.
In 2013 through my role as director of the University of Victoria Undergraduate Student Society sexual assault centre, The anti-violence project I was given the unique opportunity to work with young male students who had caused sexualized or gender-based violence on our campus. It was working with those young men that I became profoundly aware…
Carol Bilson talks with Vikki Reynolds about transformative justice, abolitionist feminism, hope and the responsibility to stay helpful. In this frank conversation you will see two activists and scholars discuss the realities of working across difference, and community accountability. Find out more about Vikki Reynolds. Solidarity Talks
This May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month. Let’s act now to create a world free from gender-based violence and oppression! Get our poster (PDF). Pledge to take these three calls to action to ignite change in our community: Action 1: Support Survivors. Make a donation – it will be doubled! An anonymous donor is matching up…
Listen to Jamison Schulz-Frano, Asiyah Robinson, and Carol Bilson explain how microaggressions emerge from veiled compliments, questions, assumptions, and cultural impacts.
Asiyah Robinson (she/her), Jamison Schulz-Franco (he/him), and Carol Bilson (she/her/ella) help us understand stereotypes, and what kind of work we have to do to dismantle stereotypes. By Anti-Racism BC, Victoria Foundation, Resilience BC, Inter-Cultural Association, Victoria Immigrant & Refugee Centre Society.
Hear what Carol Bilson, Asiyah Robinson (she/her), and Jamison Schulz-Franco (he/him) have to say about anti-racism, working in allyship, the failure of good intentions, and how to engage in anti-racist action in your communities. This video was supported by: Victoria Foundation Anti-Racism Network Resilience BC Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria Victoria Immigrant & Refugee Centre…
I joined my colleague, Matilde Cervantes who is also a PhD student at the University of Victoria, on the CFUV podcast, Docs, for this conversation about racism, colonization, and structural violence.
This workshop will empower community members to find tangible strategies to enact reconciliation within their everyday work and personal lives.
Cultivating Healthy Relationships in Boys and Male Youth is a program created to address gender-based violence. This program is designed to explore and strengthen relational skills in boys and male-identifying youth within their communities, amongst their peers, and most importantly, within themselves. Positive social shifts related to consent and accountability require stronger interpersonal skills. Relational…
I am excited to be giving a webinar on bystander intervention and addressing gender based violence on campus. I was asked to do this webinar by the University of Toronto Mississauga Student Union and it’s free for students. Wednesday November 255:00 to 6:00pm Eastern Join the UTMSU in welcoming Carol Bilson at our upcoming Learning…
