about us

The world without… is a network/collective/group that meets weekly in Melbourne to talk and work on sexual assault, and how it affects communities and ourselves. We welcome new people, and are open and welcoming to people with any level of 'experience', to anyone who wants to participate, help, or just listen, in any way, as we are working on many different projects and ideas, and want to do what you want or need to see happening too...

Some of our ideas and projects are:

To offer suvivor focused Support- to validate survivors, to support the supporters, to make it safe and easy to come forward.

To make mediation and intervention available for anyone- to give a voice and facilitate control for survivors.

To create and maintain Safer Spaces- as an active and contactable group to establish and promote safer spaces action.

To Educate ourselves and eachother- to run workshops, discussions...

To offer and distribute Resources- to establish a Zine and article distro, electronicised information, to publish, to offer contacts of women/queer-friendly shelters, crisis centres, and to offer resources and responses for travellers

To organize Events- gigs, performances etc to raise money for survivors to use toward counselling and safety, and resource costs, and disrupt the man-punk dominance of the social scene, making a safe and positive alternative for everyone else.

To establish a Mens group- a mens adjunct to deal/liase specifically with perpetrators, and work on mens' lack of awareness generally.

for us, the reality, even in our supposedly radical communities, is unacceptable.
The 'standard', what we have come to expect is shit,
and we know we deserve so much better
the group itself however, is open and welcoming to people with any level of 'experience', to anyone who wants to participate, help, or just listen, in any way, as we want to work on many different projects and ideas, and want to do what you want or need to see happening too...
basically we want to support and encourage people to confront the realities of sexual violence- to break the silence- on whatever level they feel capable/comfortable with.

we feel as though the mere existence of such a group, with the waves it'll make, will be a huge step in making sexual violence nameable and confrontable, and to linking sexual violence to other forms of oppression- sexism, homophobia, transphobia etc.- that dominate our lives.