Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Slutwalk Omaha

I participated in a great event this Sunday called Slutwalk. It's a march to end victim blaming in cases of sexual assault and rape. The name is controversial and needs some explanation. I created a video to do that. I also recorded a video of the speech I gave after the march. I'm proud of both. I'm also going to post a bunch of links for anyone interested in the subject. I wish I had some photos to show, but I was really busy that day. Thank you for taking the time to look through any of these links. 1 in 3 women in the United States will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. This has been a largely quiet and misunderstood epidemic, but that ends now. Help shatter the silence and stop the violence!

My video about the history and objective of Slutwalk Omaha

My speech about ending victim blaming

Facebook page where you can join the cause

Omaha World-Herald article on our march

WOWT piece on the march

KVNO piece on the march

Hilarious and accurate rape analogy

Site of the original slutwalk

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Excellent! Thanks for speaking out!

Library Diva said...

It's sad that in this day and age, people still blame the victim. But great that people are speaking out more and more to change this.