Take Back The Night is the earliest worldwide movement to stand against sexual violence, especially violence against women. TBTN Events began in the 1960’s in Belgium and England with protests about how women were not able to be safe walking down the street alone. These early events have grown into hundreds of events on college campuses and in communities of all sizes and locations. This project builds on the success of, and lessons learned from, the TBTN Revitalization event funded by IWS in 2020. In the past TBTN events were 'women only' events, whereas the PEI event was and will be inclusive of all genders recognizing that marginalization and sexualized violence happens to individuals and communities that are impacted by, "oppressive power structures contained in residual attitudes, behaviors and biases from our collective colonial history, which is deeply steeped in power imbalances, capitalism and all forms of inequality," and that by bringing together a diverse Advisory Committee (AC) we can "effectively disseminate messages about root causes of sexualized violence against women (by) to creat(ing) space for learning from and with voices of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (particularly women)" (Ali-Faisal, Project Evaluation Report, Take Back the Night 2020).

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New in 2021 is the creation of a province-wide “Sexual Assault Awareness Week” to generate community conversations about the role everyone plays in believing and supporting survivors and preventing sexualized violence, culminating on the Take Back The Night event. Watch our FaceBook page and the Take Back the Night PEI FaceBook page for updates on how you can participate!