Community members encouraged to contact SASSL with ideas
Hufsa Tahir
Staff Writer
@excalweb
A week after hate graffiti appeared on a private office door belonging to York’s Sexual Assault Support Line and Leadership (SASSL) service, organization executives met to discuss the current situation.
SASSL training coordinator Mila Guidorizzi says SASSL spoke with York Federation of Students (YFS) president Vanessa Hunt and is teaming up with the YFS to host an open community forum February 16.
“Anyone’s welcome to pitch ideas about what they want to do about [the incident],” says Guidorizzi.
She says several community members have already come forth with ideas, including on-campus activist group Feminist Action @ YorkU, who offered to run a poster campaign alongside SASSL’s many volunteers.
The support couldn’t have come at a better time; SASSL, Guidorizzi notes, is going through a “tricky time.”
“We’re a bit stretched thin right now, with participating in the [upcoming] International Women’s Day and hiring for several positions,” she says.
Even so, community response has been nothing but positive and supportive.
“We’re getting lots of support from the community,” Guidorizzi says. “We’ve had people calling the office wanting to speak to us about this. We’ve had professors who want to speak to the York president about this incident.”
According to York media, the university is still working with SASSL, and the case is still an ongoing investigation with Toronto police.
The time and location of the meeting has yet to be announced.
