 First it was students at a university in Halifax. Now students at UBC have been outed for making a chant advocating the rape of the yet underage girls. UBC will bring in new measures to help students better understand first nations after a controversial chant based on the Disney movie Pocahontas was used during Frosch events. The new measures. Whether you do work on housing or thinking about the environment or transportation or design of cities or you know so many different issues violence is connected to all of that. Intersectional violence is an approach to violence that recognizes that single identities are not enough and certainly in terms of understanding violence. If we think about gender violence for example, gender alone does not fully account for experiences of gender violence. Historically and in the present colonialism is achieved in part through violence against women, violence against gender diverse people. We know that indigenous people experience higher rates of violence and already have engagements with say police and other kinds of systems that tend to respond to violence so I think it's really important for us to think about how especially indigenous students but also faculty and others who might experience sexual violence on campus how we our responses should be informed by the other relationships that the kind of broader relationships that indigenous people have to violence. People come into the classroom with identities, social locations that then affect their capacity to participate in the classroom learning community. This is something that we all need to consider in our in our classrooms and how we put our syllabus together because we know that students who are in our classrooms we can assume there are survivors in class we can assume that some of the students will be assaulted within the school year that are in our classes and I think assuming that and then approaching our work in that way is really integral to changing the way that we have conversations about these issues. I think it's really important that I guess on the one hand that faculty feel they can build this into their course design at the same time I think it's important to recognize that not everybody is going to be an expert on this issue we don't have to all start doing research on sexual violence in order to be able to think about these issues in our classes and to address it in our teaching. Sometimes you know in the beginning of class we might bring up resources that are available and on campus and some of these resources might include resources for mental health resources for the writing center it can include the sexual assault support center the SASC bringing this up bringing these resources up can be useful for students because then one we recognize them as full human beings who might need additional support apart from the intellectual support that we're able to give them and two it can open up a discussion in terms of well why are these resources needed in the first