Sexual Health Letter to the Editor

Greetings UNBSJ Students! This is Wren Crandall from the new and improved Social Justice and Sexuality Center (formerly the Women’s Resource Center). As a new set of midterms bears down on us yet again, it’s easy to forget about to take time out for some reflective thought, as well as having fun.

Just drop by the Student Center, Second Level, Room 224, for free fair-trade cappuccino, condoms, candy, and social justice information or email at a641z@unb.ca. We would love to meet you.

Revamped and in the process of expanding our services, we have kept the Women’s Resource Center but made it broader in scope. We have kept our old goals of keeping the UNBSJ campus fully stocked with condoms, candy, free pregnancy tests, tampons, and community referrals. We also offer free political science and philosophy tutoring.
Whether it is one student concerned about being pregnant, or another struggling with their gender identity, all issues are taken seriously and in confidence. One key reason why this service exists to students is that many simply do not know the campus and community services available to them, should they find themselves in trouble. Thus, we are here to help; to act as a peer-based liaison and information center.
The Social Justice and Sexuality Center has a strong referral system for those facing potential sexuality and/or addiction problems. We partner with grassroots community non-profit organizations such as AIDS Saint John, to get information about safe sex, comfortable sexuality, social justice out there.

Our center can also arrange training in CPR, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention and Suicide Intervention, and Women’s Self-Defense classes for those on campus, courses the center’s own volunteers have taken and benefitted greatly from.

The Center provides a strong feminist and progressive voice on campus on a variety of social justice and sexuality issues. It allows for political advocacy (on issues such as student loans, affordable housing) from students, for students, in an organized way that gets results.

I feel excited, and privileged, about bringing the message of safe sex and social justice to the UNBSJ Campus.

Wren Crandall is the President of the Social Justice and Sexuality Center. She is also a double Honors student in Philosophy and Political Science, and promoter of UNBSJ’s Student Abroad Program.