This project was started by a group of UBC students tired of seeing hateful and oppressive graffiti scrawled on surfaces around campus. A university campus is a home, a place of work, a study space, a social space and much more - and the environment should be comfortable, supportive and inspiring to those who use it. Through this project, we want to see 3 things happen:

1) We want to raise awareness about the existence of this kind of graffiti and the fact that something can be done about it. We have noticed that while many people have observed it around, many people are reluctant to speak out against it, or admit to how it makes them feel. We hope to break the silence surrounding written and visual hate 'language' on our campus and in doing so, start moving towards eliminating it.

2) Secondly, after seeking out and documenting examples of hate graffiti, we plan to submit them to the various campus resources committed to keeping UBC free of this kind of discrimination. Our Plant Operations and Campus Security offices have policies on ensuring that once a report is submitted with a location of the graffiti, they are dedicated to ensuring its timely removal, but we need to help them!

You can report hate graffiti by filing out an incident report with campus security on this website:

http://www.security.ubc.ca/

3) Finally, we want to begin creating a new kind of environment for our campus - one that we feel our community should be experiencing. We are working on a multimedia, interactive art project for anyone to contribute to; we are looking for poetry, words of wisdom, drawings, photographs and other images, collages, comments and any other positive and creative pieces that you may have to take us in the right direction.

This art project will be showcased in the SUB Art Gallery during Realties of Race Week during the week of March 19th - 23rd. Come check it out and help contribute your own art.

(Please note that this project is focused on exposing and combatting a specific form of graffiti which we find to be particularly hurtful and hateful. We are primarily concerned with hate language graffiti which we believe has a detrimental impact on the campus environment.) (read less)

This project was started by a group of UBC students tired of seeing hateful and oppressive graffiti scrawled on surfaces around campus. A university campus is a home, a place of work, a study space, a social space and much more - and the environment should be comfortable, supportive and inspiring to those who use it. Through this project, we want to see 3 things happen:

1) We want to raise awareness about the existence of this kind of graffiti and the fact that something can be done about it.... (read more)