Maarika Freund
Maarika Freund

This page IS dedicated to keeping important & necessary information + campaigns accessible & off the proverbial “black market for feminism”.

it’s my hope that THIS LIST continues to grow as my work with peaches grows, too.


INTERNATIONAL

CAN’T BUY MY SILENCE
Campaigning for legislative and regulatory change that will make NDAs unenforceable for anything other than their original purpose – the prevention of sharing confidential business information (“intellectual property”) and trade secrets.

GOING PUBLIC
Dr. Julie Macfarlane’s Huguenot Society of Canada Prize winning book that describes her personal experiences of sexual abuse and rape when she was a young person, and her journey through the legal system seeking justice.

CANADA

MY VOICE, MY CHOICE
an initiative created by Canadian victim-complainants, for Canadian victim-complainants, to amend Criminal Code section 486.4 so that no person is ever forced into silence due to an unwanted publication ban.

GUIDE TO NAVIGATING PUBLICATION BANS
penned by Ms. Megan Stephens, one of my favourite humans of all time

CANADA’S COURT SYSTEM
put together by the Department of Justice Canada

TORONTO

WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
at Women’s College Hospital

MEGAN STEPHENS LAW
assisting women and gender-diverse people in their encounters with the justice system

PLANNED PARENTHOOD TORONTO
a nonprofit organization that provides sexual health care (no questions asked)

HASSLE FREE CLINIC
free medical and counselling services in many areas of sexual health

AL & MALKA GREEN ARTISTS’ HEALTH CENTRE
a facility in the Family and Community Medicine Program at Toronto Western Hospital

AUSTRALIA

#LETUSSPEAK
founded by NinaFunnell, #LetHerSpeak/#LetUsSpeak is a campaign to abolish sexual assault victim gag-laws in Tasmania, the Northern Territory and, more recently, Victoria. 

RECLAIM:ME
founded by Madeleine Heather,
Reclaim Me is a weekly real crime podcast where survivors of abuse and trauma can tell their stories freely, reclaiming their voice, narrative, and control. Madeleine creates an incredibly safe space, and works to de-stigmatise what it means to be a “Survivor”.