We are writing for our mother’s mothers and their mothers we are writing for our daughters and the daughters of our daughters we are writing for our ancestors and generations to come. Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a woman with something to say, and this intrinsic knowing solidifies her commitment to the...
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Mia Matsumiya Posts 10 Years of Sexual Harassment To Instagram to #KillTheSilence
Artist and musician Mia Matsumiya has become well-loved by her fans throughout her career and as she traversed through various social media outlets (from MySpace to Instagram). However, beyond any fan mail she may have received, she has been the recipient of violent, demeaning, patriarchal, sexually explicit, and abusive messages for all 10 of those...
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#KillTheSilence: How the Black Dot Campaign Actually Threatens Abuse Victims
Recently, social media went absolutely abuzz over a deeply personal and well-intentioned campaign, which involves people placing a black dot on the palm of their hand to signify they are currently being abused and cannot speak about it because their abuser is watching closely. Called The Black Dot Campaign, this is meant to prompt anyone...
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#KillTheSilence Resource Guide for Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Abuse
WYV RESOURCE GUIDE FOR HELP Here is a list of 24 Hour hotlines, shelters in the Bay Area, local legal services, resources, counseling, education and more. Wear Your Voice. Speak up, Speak out. You are not alone. #KillTheSilence2015 [highlight ] 24 Hour Hot Line[/highlight] A Safe Place 510.536.7233 Alameda County Medical Center | Oakland Consortium on...
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#KillTheSilence2015: Campaign Launch to End Victim Blaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPXGiMBH8Ok Wear Your Voice Magazine announces the launch of #KillTheSilence2015, a yearlong campaign to end the stigma sexual assault and domestic violence survivors face when going forward with their story. Victim blaming, also called secondary victimization, exposes survivors to additional trauma after their initial assault, making survivors less likely to come forward with their...
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#KillTheSilence: Love Marriage Ends in Court Ordered Rape
An all male village council in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, India have ordered the rape of two young women following the elopement of their brother to a married woman. The brother, 22, eloped with the women, 21, earlier this year after her parents married her off against her wishes. The couple said to have been...
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Using Art To End Sex Trafficking and #KillTheSilence
Sex workers dance for prospective clients in a bar in the red-light district, Pat Pong, Bangkok, Thailand. Image credit: Flickr user Alex Wright via Creative Commons Two women are making headlines throughout the Bay, using their talents to address human sex trafficking-one of the Bay Area’s largest epidemics. Tracie Collins and Regina Evans, both playwrights, have come...
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#KillTheSilence: Petals in The Dust: The Endangered Indian Girls
Image Screenshot via Petals in the Dust Instagram page Violence against women is not a rare social phenomenon; it’s a sordid, and prevalent occurrence that exists everywhere on the globe today. Propagated through the vast inequalities that exist between men and women around the world, in its most severe form violence against women does not...
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#KillTheSilence: Are You A Gold Star If You Have Been Raped?
Many of you in the lesbian community know being a Gold Star, to a lesbian, is such a wonderful sexual consciousness of life. Being a Gold Star, for those of you who are unaware, means that you have never had a male penis inside of you by choice. You’ve chosen not to simply because you...
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Take The Pledge. End Rape Culture. #KillTheSilence.
When President Barack Obama took the reins of America back in 2008, he and Vice President Biden decided to try and fizzle out the burning embers of sexual assailants by reconditioning the men in our colleges. [highlight ]Be direct. Ask someone who looks like they may need help if they’re ok.[/highlight] The White House started an It’s On Us campaign...