This Saturday it will be 14 years that the women of the Northern Rivers have been wearing red and gathering on 14 February for the annual V Day flashmob that takes place on Main Beach at Byron Bay from 7am.
The flashmob is the local part of the global One Billion Rising – the biggest mass action to end violence against women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to violence).
With one in three women experiencing partner or sexual violence in their lives this is a chance to gather and dance together to rise up and show local communities and the world it is time to take action against the continuing levels of violence, and murders by men of women and children.
‘Women, men, non-binary and children are all welcome to come and gather at 6.30am in solidarity with others around the world to protest with dance in defiance,’ said organiser Zenith Virago.
‘One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence in human history.’
Vagina Conversations
Over the last ten years the Vagina Conversations have raised over $158,000 with all the proceeds going to the Women’s Resource Service, Byron Escape Fund, and the Tweed DVIRC Impact Fund supporting local women escaping intimate partner and family violence. They finance women in crisis to pay for emergency needs, keeping women and children safe.
Four sessions of the Vagina Conversations will also be taking place this week from Thursday 12, to Sunday 14 February, at the Brunswick Picture House (www.brunswickpicturehouse.com).
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