Denim Days
We are encouraging students faculty and staff to wear jeans and
teal(the color for sexual assault) or purple (for domestic/dating
violence)
We will be tabling in Waldron on Monday to advertise the event
and in the Rec Center Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday we will
table and provide an opportunity for students and faculty to write
down misconceptions.
What is Denim Day?
Denimdayinfo.org
For the past 19 years, Peace Over Violence has run its Denim Day
campaign on a Wednesday in April in honor of Sexual Violence
Awareness Month. The campaign was originally triggered by a ruling
by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned
because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight
jeans she must have helped her rapist remove her jeans, thereby
implying consent. The following day, the women in the Italian
Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the
victim. Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in
response to this case and the activism surrounding it. Since then,
wearing jeans on Denim Day has become a symbol of protest against
erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault. In this
rape prevention education campaign we ask community members,
elected officials, businesses and students to make a social
statement with their fashion by wearing jeans on this day as a
visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround
sexual assault.