In collaboration with the Northside Sexual Assault Network (NSAAN), BRISSC is offering 'Responding to Sexual Violence Training' for community workers. This 2 day training aims to provide community workers with knowledge and skills to respond to sexual violence – both in terms of individual disclosures and...
The date has been set for Reclaim the Night (RTN) 2019! Join BRISSC, Zig Zag and WWILD along with a collective of community women and survivors to march for our right to safety. Reclaim the Night is a women’s rally and march that demands the...
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...