A Day to End Sexual Violence
by Denise

Blog Against Sexual Violence logoToday is the Sexual Assault Awarness Month day of action. It's a day when we're supposed to DO something to help bring awareness to the issue of sexual assault.

Many women are blogging sexual violence and sexual assault.

Maiden Cover:

I only know (personally) one person who has been violently, physically, sexually assaulted. I know of several others who have been harrassed in other ways. They are only a few in a world of many. Being a college student and working in/around law enforcement has opened my eyes to more things than I can honestly say that I cared to see. Working and being around mostly men has subjected me to things that I would rather not have memories of.

The End Violence Against Women blog should be in your feed reader right now.

Enola shares a story about violence in the workplace:

That night he called in tears. There had been a shooting at his place of business. A husband, despite the domestic violence restraining order against him, and despite being out on bond for assaulting his wife, came to the business, shot his wife-employee and then himself. All of this occurred in the business and in front of the other employees.

At wired for noise:

The fact is rape isn’t about sex, it is about power. The men who rape aren’t doing so because they want to get off, they want to dominate the woman. They want to insert their power over her, and the best way to do that is to use her own body against her. Rape is about power and anger, not sex.

And let me leave you with a link to bluemilk whose 3 year old daughter recently said...

My vulva is poisonous.

What are you doing today to bring awareness to and put an end to sexual assault and violence? You are doing something, aren't you?

Submitted by Denise (view blog) on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 8:28am

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Remember and Act - Femicide in Juarez

Society sanctions actions through silence.  Find out about the hundreds of brutal torture deaths in Ciudad Juarez/El Paso, then take to the streets and blogs.   Talk about this.   Demand action from your governmental representatives.  Women migrate from their homes, sometime thousands of miles awy to find work along the U.S. Mexican borders in the maquiladoras and the slums that pop up around these factories.   This issue comes from the massive migrations that take place when large corporations destablize self sufficient agriculutral communities and then abandon the plants ten years later to go to an even more impoverished area where they can find even cheaper labor and less rigorous environmental laws.  The mass migrations with people piling up at the borders helps create and sustain socially invisible populations tha fall victim to attrocities such as the Femicide in Juarez.

NOW's site is a good starting point to find out more about this.   

 

 

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Submitted by artpax on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 12:07
 

Society sanctions actions through silence.

That is the truth. No more silence.  Talk about it, question it, just do not keep quiet about it.

 

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Submitted by Denise on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 12:21
 

Thank you for the reminder

I didn't know it was sexual assault awareness month, and I didn't know today was the action day.

I attended a lecture a few weeks ago. It was about talking with our children - especially our daughters - about sexual abuse, without scaring them. I've been planning to write a post about it but never got around to it. I am on it. Might have to publish it tomorrow, but better late than never, right?

Vered DeLeeuw
www.momgrind.com

Submitted by Vered on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 12:14
 

Please do blog it

The sooner the better.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

Submitted by Denise on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 12:21
 

Teaching Our Children About Sexual Abuse
Without Scaring Them

Okay, I blogged it.

http://momgrind.com/2008/04/03/sexual-assault-awareness-month-keeping-ou...

I will also post it here.

Vered DeLeeuw
www.momgrind.com

Submitted by Vered on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 13:41
 

I blogged it too...

Ran it as a lead into my article about the most recent report of a KBR rape.    

 

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Submitted by artpax on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 15:19
 

Thanks for the important

Thanks for the important reminder. Will try to blog about this today or tomorrow.  

 

Amy

Crunchy Domestic Goddess

BlogHers Act contributing editor

Submitted by Amy Gates on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 16:00
 

Central African Republic situation needs
mention

I don't think we mentioned the CAR in yesterdays discussions.    No informed person can talk about Gender Based Violence without mentioning the systemic violent rape combonent in so many of the political, resource, and ethnic  based warfare that is endemic in several areas in Africa. 

The Global Report covers a story of survivors trying to support themselves. 

 

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Submitted by artpax on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 08:35
 

All in the family

As I am reading this blog post, I am watching an rerun of All in the Family where Gloria gets sexually assaulted at a construction site. Archie and Meathead coax her not to report it because of the negative attention and judgement it will bring her. She did not press charges as a result. I was so pissed off at the men in her life and the fact that she did not press charges. I would hope things have changed from the 1970's as judgement should fall on the predator.

I am telling my girlfriends about this important day and this episode.

Maria
Chickable
Life's a Chick Trip

Submitted by chickable on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 17:46