women's day school: on sexual violence

A brief summary about the women school day in dublin, august 2006

Around 30 women attended the women's day school in dublin
Under a really nice athmosphere workshops on sexual violence where done by all of us.
The day began with a presentation and a following collaborative and participative building of sexual violence definitions and questions around it as follows(see the photos to know the answers):
why does sexual violence occur?; what is sexual harassment?; what is rape?; are there any misconceptions surraunding rape?; why might sexual violence not be reported or talk about?
After this a workshop on women's selfdefense was particularly active.
Following to this there was time to have lunch and have informal discussions before continuing with all the activities.
Most of the afternoon was dedicated to think, talk and work on consent. As it's seen in the photos it is more complex that apparently seems. Playing different assigned roles all experienced different cases implying dealing with consent.
To finish the day there was a very interesting discussion on safe spaces and safer spaces policies. how to have safe spaces for everyone? how to have safe spaces for women? A pitty but they are needed.
All was so nice and interesting that we left the place a lot later than we expected.
thanks to all the organisers and participants.

(non english speaker report)