I Don't Owe You Avalon received a Prevention Innovation Grant from the Province of Nova Scotia to continue community engagement and mobilization activities in Dartmouth North. One of the projects included working with youth participants of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Halifax. Using the Doesn’t Mean I Owe You poster campaign Avalon facilitated group discussions on rape culture and consent culture. The youth participants took the concepts they learned from the workshops and created a video to share with peers and their community to create further public awareness and sexual assault prevention. Avalon Centre is proud to show case this video as an example of youth led sexual assault awareness and prevention initiatives. Thanks to the youth participants from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Halifax for creating this video and taking a leadership role in engaging other youth in sexual assault awareness and prevention.

Avalon Sexual Assault Centre’s “I Don’t Owe You Campaign” is a sexualized violence/abuse awareness and prevention campaign that focuses on the complexities of sexual consent, misogyny, male entitlement, bodily autonomy, and empowerment. The concepts for the campaign were identified from our work with youth and young adults through our community/school based education programming. All of the images originally used in the poster were of participants who consented to being photographed and portrayed in the campaign except for one: the image originally linked with the message “Just because we danced close, made out, went back to your house…doesn’t mean I owe you” was taken from the internet. Unfortunately, in doing this, Avalon Centre’s policies and guidelines for using public images and obtaining permission to use images from online were not followed. The image now being used with that message (see below) is a replacement which does follow our policies and guidelines. Avalon sincerely regrets any inconvenience and further trauma the use of the original image may have caused. Avalon strives to always act in ways that are non-judgemental, trauma-informed, and support empowerment.

Please note that the poster below is the only poster permitted to be displayed bearing this message. Posters featuring this message with any other image have been discontinued, and we ask that you remove it from your displays, resource distribution and social media sites.