UA Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events

[Sophia D McGowan]

tl;dr The UA is re-launching the annual photo and red flag campaigns and hosting an open mic event to demonstrate how interpersonal violence affects our community for sexual assault awareness month. Contribute submissions anonymously to the photo campaign here<https://forms.gle/5tjepDfy2PpAH3QL6> or stop by our booth in Lobby 10 or Stata (times below) in the next week. You can participate in the open mic by signing up here<http://tiny.cc/saam-slam>.


We understand the issues being highlighted this month are sensitive and can be difficult to process alone. If you’d like to speak with someone, VPR is available 24/7 at (617) 253-2399.


Dear Undergrads,


The Red Flag Campaign

UA Student Support and Wellness, in conjunction with Violence Prevention and Response (VPR), is hosting The Red Flag Campaign at MIT to raise awareness of intimate partner violence (IPV), otherwise known as relationship abuse.


We are continuing this campaign this year with 5,660 red flags on Kresge representing the number of MIT undergraduate and graduate students who statistically will experience psychological abuse <https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/NISVS-StateReportBook.pdf> by an intimate partner within their lifetime.


Relationship abuse is defined as a repetitive pattern of behaviors to maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Abuse is a spectrum of violence and includes verbal, emotional, physical, psychological, financial, reproductive, or sexual abuse. To learn the warning signs of an abusive relationship and how to help a friend who is being abused, check out the "Resources For Seeking Help" section on redflag.mit.edu<http://redflag.mit.edu/>.


Nearly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men experience severe physical violence by a partner in their lifetime. IPV is most prevalent in adolescence and young adulthood. It is on us to reduce those numbers on campus through education and intervention.


Relationship violence manifests in a variety of different ways. If you or someone you know feels powerless, coerced, or trapped in their relationship, information on how to get help can be found at studentlife.mit.edu/vpr/facts-and-resources.<https://studentlife.mit.edu/vpr/facts-and-resources>


Photo Campaign

UA Student Support and Wellness is re-launching a photo campaign to demonstrate how interpersonal violence affects our community. Interpersonal violence includes sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, stalking, and sexual harassment.



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We are looking for submissions that respond to the following prompts:


“It’s 2019, but…”: How does sexual violence impact you or the MIT community as a whole?


“To build a better MIT, I…”: How are you working to make MIT a safer place?


“It’s important to build a better MIT because…”: Why is sexual violence an important issue for the MIT community to solve?


There are several ways to participate:

  1.  Stop by the booth and write out a response to one of the prompts above. We will take a photo of you holding your response written on a small whiteboard and post the photo on the UA Facebook page. Also, your face does not have to be visible in the photo.
  2.  Submit your response anonymously using the form here: https://forms.gle/5tjepDfy2PpAH3QL6. Your response will be photographed and posted on the UA Facebook Page.

Photographs of anonymous and in person submissions will be posted on the UA Facebook Page<https://www.facebook.com/undergraduateassociation/> We hope that this campaign will raise awareness about interpersonal violence at MIT and empower survivors.


SAAM SLAM

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Join us for an open mic event about identity for Sexual Assault Awareness Month co-hosted by the F-word and UA Wellness Committee in cooperation with VPR for a night of spoken word, poetry, and prose about identity. Come just to listen, or to perform spoken word written by yourself or another writer. The event will take place at 7:00pm on April 26th in room 6-120.


If you would like to perform, fill out the submission form here:<https://forms.gle/GgxvdnpCYrxTcoSUA> tiny.cc/saam-slam<http://tiny.cc/saam-slam>. Please note that self-written pieces should have no identifying information, and all pieces should discuss identity. We may not be able to accommodate all submissions, but will try our best to accept as many as we can.


We understand the issues being highlighted this month are sensitive and can be difficult to process alone. If you’d like to speak with someone, VPR is available 24/7 at: (617)253-2399.


Speak up. Speak out. Say something.


Regards,



UA Student Support and Wellness

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