TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

This Thursday, KW is having it's 24th annual Take Back the Night March. TBTN had its ovarian beginning in the late 1870s, in response to violence against women. There was an upsurge in marches in the late 1970s. In 1976, women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women lit candles and marched in Belgium. Two years later, the United States had its first march in San Francisco on the heels of an antipornography conference. Another prominent city was NYC, which had thousands of women marching through "pornified" Times Square. KW began in 1984.

We meet up at 6:30 at the Brewmeister Green in Waterloo, which is the corner of King and William. The WLU's Women's Centre meets earlier, in the FNCC at 5:30, then head down to uptown Waterloo. The march starts at 7, and heads down to Kitchener's Victoria Park Pavilion. The march is open to women and children and is trans-inclusive. Men, while not permitted in the march itself, are encouraged to support women before, during, and after the march.