For Sexual Assault Awareness Month, UC Offers a Variety of Activities to Spotlight Sexual Assault, Its Signs and Solutions
Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a month of programming dedicated to education around issues of sexual violence, says Kim Fulbright, Sexual Assault Prevention Program Coordinator in the UC Womens Center. The theme this year is Reclaim. Reclaim provides and opportunity to speak to issues of prevention as well as an arena for survivors to empower themselves. We're really excited about having such a diverse range of programs this year from as local as Cincinnati's 18th annual Take Back the Night to a program on violence against women in Iraq."
March 27 and 29
Where: 427 TUC
When: 7:309 p.m.
Sexual Assault and the LGBT Community, lecture
Monday, April 2
Where: TUC Atrium
When: 11:30 a.m.2 p.m.
Resource tables with information available on sexual assault:
- Talbert House
- UC Domestic Violence Clinic
- Student Activities & Leadership Development
- Shades of You student organization
- UC Counseling Center
- Campus Ministries
- UC Wellness Center
- UC Womens Center and peer advocates
Tuesday, April 3
Where: Catskeller, TUC 1st floor
When: 710 p.m.
Slammin on Main, poetry jam
Wednesday, April 4
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon2 p.m.
Tape, movie Sex in the Cinema series, followed by a discussion facilitated by staff of the UC Counseling Center. Two old friends pass the time reminiscing about the good old times which take a turn when Vince records their conversation with Jon admitting to a possible date-rape of Vince's old girlfriend Amy, who later shows up and opens up a new wave of talk and
arguments about whose story is fact or fabricated.
Friday, April 6
Where: UC Womens Center, 571 Steger Student Life Center
When: noon2 p.m.
In her Shoes, Interactive
Simulate trying to get out of a situation of intimate partner violence with trained volunteers.
Wednesday, April 11
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon2 p.m.
Searching for Angela Shelton, movie Sex in the Cinema series
An actress named Angela Shelton is on a quest for identity as a way of trying to heal from a childhood of sexual abuse. When she decided to make a film of as many Angela Sheltons as she could find, little did she know that half of them would share her history of sexual abuse.
Wednesday, April 18
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon2 p.m.
Killing Us Softly III, movie Sex in the Cinema series
Filmmaker Jean Kilbournes third movie examines advertisings image of women. And the techniques that advertisers use to get men and women to buy into gender sterrotypes.
Thursday, April 19, Keynote Speaker of Sexual Assault Awareness Month:
A Window of Hope: Standing with Women in Iraq to End Violence
Where: Raymond Walters College, Science & Allied Health Building
When: 23:30 p.m.
and again on the Uptown Campus
Where: Richard E. Lindner Center, Room 450
When: 7 p.m.
Yanar Mohammed, director of the "Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq" and an Iraqi woman, will speak about violence against women in Iraq. She will describe how women are creating hope in Iraq and will relate the experiences of women on the frontlines of the struggle to end gender-based violence while building a democratic Iraq.
Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Committee.
Wednesday, April 25
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon2 p.m.
Boys Dont Cry, movie Sex in the Cinema series
The true story of the life of Brandon Teena, a transgendered teen who preferred life in a male identity until it was discovered he was born a biological female.
Friday, April 27
Where: Meet in the TUC Atrium for the trip downtown
When: 5:30 p.m.
Take Back the Night, rally
On-campus rally and free bus service to and from city-wide event in downtown Cincinnati. The march and candlelight vigil start at 7 p.m. at Bicentennial Commons in Sawyer Point. The march, designed to raise awareness about sexual and physical assault, ends in a ceremony at the Millennium Peace Bell in Newport. For more information, call the Rape Crisis and Abuse Center of Hamilton County at 513-977-5541.
Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities are co-sponsored by the UC offices of Diversity Education, Public Safety, Campus Ministries Association, Women's Studies,
Athletics, the Wellness Center, the Counseling Center, Resident Education and Development, MainStreet, Raymond Walters College, the College of Law, Sorority & Fraternity Life.
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