Tagged With "Wear Denim with Purpose this Wednesday"

April is also Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Currently, the Division on Women (DOW) supports statewide community-level primary prevention efforts to prevent sexual violence. To advance these efforts, we work with non-traditional partners and consider them as experts in their own lives and community pillars for change . We believe that impactful primary prevention efforts begin with community engagement and providing tools to communities so they can empower themselves. As such, our...

Denim Day, established in 1999, is a campaign on a Wednesday in April in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The campaign began after 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 the person who raped her 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. This...

History of Denim Day Denim Day grew out of a 1998 Italian Supreme Court decision that overturned a rape conviction because the victim wore tight jeans. The accused in the case was found guilty of rape and appealed the decision, claiming that they had consensual sex. The case makes it all the way to the Italian High Court where the conviction is overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans,...

Thank you for sharing this, Dwana. However, I must tell you that reading about that Supreme Court judgement disturbed my sense of justice 😠

I was blown away by their decision as well @Adrian Alexander