RAR is a student organization at the University of Connecticut dedicated to ending sexual violence and promoting awareness. Thanks to all who made Slutwalk UConn: A March To End Victim Blaming 2012 a success!
Meeting times for the spring 2013 semester will be announced soon.
Reminder! Project Unbreakable: It Happens to Huskies is all this week on Fairfield Way
Check out the article in the Daily Campus that looks at all the recent incidents at UConn involving rape culture, and why Project Unbreakable is important.
Modeled after a photography project (http://projectunbreakable.tumblr.com/) started by a young woman named Grace Brown in New York City, UConn Project Unbreakable works to empower survivors and raise awareness. The photographs are powerful and poignant; reminding us that gender-based violence happens at UConn and to UConn students, and re-affirms our commitment to a campus and a world free of violence.
Please note that some of these images may be triggering, and that there will be information about UConn’s Community Response Team available at the display.
If you would like more information about and resources surrounding Gender-Based Violence please visit http://sexualviolence.uconn.edu/
For more information about the Women’s Center please visit http://www.womenscenter.uconn.edu/
Project Unbreakable will run 11 am- 3pm on Monday-Friday on Fairfield Way
Members of RAR with State Rep Greg Haddad at tonight’s screening of Unreported!
Casual reminder that our screening of Unreported is this Thursday at 6pm!!
RSVP here
About to meet with State Representative Greg Haddad to talk about activism, policy reform, and adding a victim protection statement to our student code!
Poster for Unreported! It’s also an Honors Event :)
Join Revolution Against Rape for a screening of the documentary ‘Unreported,’ a film which highlights the prevalence of sexual assault and rape culture on college campuses. Created by Penn State student Stephanie Wain, the documentary tells the stories of unreported sexual assaults on the Penn State campus.
Following the screening, there will be opportunities to discuss the film and the effects of rape culture, as well as remarks on rape culture from Dr. William Jelani Cobb, UConn Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for African American Studies.
The event will take place on April 25th at 6pm, in the Storrs Hall (Nursing Building) Widmer Wing Auditorium.
RAR is meeting tonight in Chem T113 from 6-7pm!
We’re currently planning two awesome events, a discussion with State Rep Greg Haddad about policy, voter empowerment, self-efficacy, and political change (which will be happening next week) and a film screening of the documentary Unbreakable by Penn State student Stephanie Wain, as well as a discussion on sexual assault and rape culture on college campuses.
We’d love to get everyone’s input on this and new faces are always welcome!
Note: This post only applies to current and former UConn Students.
RAR is meeting right now in Chem T113!!
Unreported
This is the video we watched at RAR today. It’s a student-produced film about sexual assault on the Penn State campus, and it’s absolutely tremendously awesome. Definite trigger warning for rape and sexual assault and victims describing their experiences, but it’s definitely worth the watch.
Make sure to come visit RAR today at the involvement fair! We’ll be set up 2-7 in the Women’s Center!
not necessarily; drunk sex happens all the time and it isn’t rape, because everyone is comfortable with what happened and no one feels violated or taken advantage of. however, that being said, if a person is under the influence, they really cannot consent so you should always keep that in mind. at VAWPP (the program i work with) we sometimes equate it to drunk driving- its incredibly risky for yourself and others, but sometimes you get lucky and no one gets hurt.
the RAR executive board is meeting right now to discuss plans for One Billion Rising! stay tuned for more info. if you have any ideas for OBR or other events in the spring, feel free to send us a message!
It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the enormity of that. When I was in college, I’d heard that one in four women would be raped, and I thought, God, that means I must know someone who was raped. Sure enough, I found out a week later that a friend had been. A billion is too big because one is too big.
Anne Hathaway on why she supports One BIllion Rising (in Glamour of all places), and simultaneously exacerbating my mega-crush on her (via bigfatfeminist)
Revolution Against Rape will be holding a One Billion Rising event this semester. To find out more or get involved, send us a message or email uconnrar@gmail.com!
(via satansbbygirl)
