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It's time to hold offenders accountable and provide a better, trauma-informed response to survivors. 🙌
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#4 Don’t reinvent the wheel
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#3 Plan an event
Successful event ideas:
💡 Start a pledge challenge
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#2 Get your community involved
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📍 College campuses
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📍 Sexual Assault Awareness Month events
📍 Social media
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#1 Make it your own
Here are some of the best ways to customize:
⭐Personalize the pledge
➥Change the wording, add your logo, or create your own hashtag
⭐Create your own social media campaigns
➥Craft your own hashtag, social media challenge, or unique calls to action
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Is your department relying on inadequate or outdated sexual misconduct policies? Download our Model Policy Resource: Law Enforcement Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Accountability for FREE—download it here: evawintl.org/wp-content/u...
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Join the family of victim service professionals from across the globe at our upcoming conference in Anaheim, CA.
📅: April 22-24, 2025
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As we continue to fight for justice, accountability, and the increase of trauma-informed responses, it is important to acknowledge and understand these critical pieces of history and the inequities that continue to impact Black survivors today.
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Stereotypes about Black women led to hypersexualization.
Black women had long been depicted as hypersexual, causing people to view them “unrapeable” and undeserving of protection or sympathy.
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Black people who were enslaved experienced high rates of sexual violence.
Enslaved people experienced forced coupling, sexual assaulted for reproduction, sexual assault as a punishment, and enslaved people of both genders experienced sexual assault perpetrated by white people.
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Enslaved victims had no pathway to justice.
In 1859, a Mississippi judge overturned the conviction of an older slave who raped a slave girl under the age of 10. The attorney argued: “The crime of rape does not exist in this State between African slaves...their intercourse is promiscuous.”
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Sexual humiliation was normalized during slavery.
Black people who experienced slavery endured public nudity, nude physical auction examinations to determine reproductive ability, and were often stripped naked when they were whipped.
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Lynchings of Black men were justified by false rape accusations.
Lynching was a possible penalty for a Black men accused or convicted of raping a white woman. Little to no evidence was presented to support these claims, and many white women recanted after these Black men were murdered.
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During the 1800s some rape laws were race-specific, excluding Black women.
Rape laws did not provide equal protection for all women. For example, a rapist was defined as a man who “unlawfully and carnally know [sic] any white woman against her will or consent.”
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For much of history, raping a Black woman was not criminalized.
During slavery, Masters raped and brutalized Black women without any legal recompense, furthering their own economic interests by increasing their number of slaves as the women gave birth to children of forcible rape.
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