Access & Diversity
Equity Ambassadors
Programs & initiatives
Positive Graffiti Project
Positive Graffiti postcard
This project was started by the Equity Ambassadors because we were 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.
Aims of the project
- We want to raise awareness about the existence of this kind of graffiti and the fact that something can be done about it. While many people have observed negative graffiti around campus, they are reluctant to speak out against it, or admit to how it makes them feel. We hope to break the silence around written and visual hate language on our campus and in doing so, start moving toward eliminating it.
- We will submit examples of hate graffiti to the various campus resources committed to keeping UBC free of this discrimination. Our Plant Operations and Campus Security offices have policies to ensure that once a report is submitted with a location of the graffiti, it is removed. But we need to help!
- We want to begin creating a new campus environment – one that we feel our community should have. 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 take us in the right direction.
This project is focused on exposing and combating a specific form of graffiti that we find to be particularly hurtful and hateful &ndash hate language graffiti – because we believe it has a detrimental impact on the campus environment.
Online presence
To find out more about the Positive Graffiti Project, visit our MySpace and Facebook profiles.
