BRISSC and the Northside Sexual Assault Action Network (NSAAN), invite you to a very special awareness-raising event during Sexual Violence Awareness Month (SVAM) - a ‘What Were You Wearing?’ Art Installation, which challenges the myths and victim-blaming of women against whom sexual violence is perpetrated. Inspired...
Hurried Steps is a performance that tells a series of stories of women and girls from around the world who have experienced violence and persecution. Performed by a collective of Brisbane women, the stories differ in their cultural contexts but have in common heartfelt, optimistic...
The Queensland Law Reform Commission is finally reviewing the 'mistake of fact defense', a legal loophole in the Queensland Criminal Code which excuses perpetrators. Check out the terms of reference for the review below. Submissions to this review will be open shortly - BRISSC is...
BRISSC is a member of Queensland Women's Health Network (QWHN). QWHN publishes 3 newsletters per annum. Issue 2, 2019 has just been released, check it out here....
This year we invite you to join the collective of community women who will be supported by BRISSC, WWILD & Zig Zag to organize Reclaim the Night 2019. Reclaim the Night began in 1977 and is an international event to speak out against male violence...
BRISSC supports the right of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to self determination. Women's House was built and BRISSC operates on what was, and will always be Aboriginal land. We pay our respects to Elders past and present of Turrbal and Jagera, the lands on which we live and work
