In 2024, the Safe Ta Night network, of which Brussels By Night is a member, launched a new project aimed at combating sexual violence in Brussels' festive environments, particularly when it occurs as a result of the consumption of alcohol or other psychoactive products (voluntary or involuntary).
This three-year project (2024-2026) will begin with the conduct of two surveys of LGBTQIA+ and/or racialised* groups, for which there is virtually no current information. The years that follow will be dedicated to creating awareness-raising and training tools, strengthening partnerships, setting up specific services in our structures and supporting professionals in the nightlife sector.
→ Link to the questionnaire on sexual violence facilitated by the use of psychoactive products in festive environments.
The project adopts an intersectional approach, taking into consideration racist and LGBTQIAphobic discrimination. We see this violence as the result of several systems of domination that are mutually nourishing and whose perpetuation acts as a tool of control and exclusion.
Our objectives are :
to promote ‘safer’, accessible and respectful party spaces.
to improve knowledge of the forms of violence suffered by people belonging to multi- discriminated groups, for which data is virtually non-existent.
to provide a care and referral pathway for victims that does not lead to further violence.
The project is co-constructed by Modus Vivendi, La Plateforme Prévention Sida, Brussel by Night et Ex Aequo, supported by the Observatoire du Sida et des Sexualités and Eurotox and backed by Equal.Brussels.
*Racialised: a person affected by racism. The process of racising a person can be based on skin colour, origin, language or religion, real or assumed. This term emphasises the fact that race is neither biological nor objective, but a social construct with very real and tangible consequences (unfair or unequal treatment, discrimination, etc.).
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