You Want a Truce and so Do We!
This month, SSR is putting on a campaign to create awareness and conversation about sexual assault and harassment within the Isla Vista/UCSB community. Unique to our community is that approximately 99% of the rapes that occur are committed by aquaintances of the survivors. This points to the widespread misconception that many rapes are by strangers. Because this crime is usually committed by a person one knows and is familiar with, many times it is unknown to the survivor that what happened was rape or one is shamed into thinking they could have done something to prevent it. In reality, a person does not bring rape upon themselves — not by the way they dress, act, or even if they are intoxicated. Rape is an act that the perpetrator decides to commit. Would you accuse the pedestrian victim of a hit-and-run driver of being reckless?
I Want A Truce is a campaign that we, at SSR, put on in which we ask for a weekend free of sexual assault and harassment. The project is inspired by a speech by Andrea Dworkin, in which she asks for a 24-hour period. The weekend for I Want a Truce is October 19 to October 22. During the week leading up to the weekend, SSR members will be distributing t-shirts to promote and create awareness for the campaign. They are free to the UCSB community!
posted by Admin (I Want a Truce)