Denim Day for sexual-assault awareness on April 26
Denim Day is Wednesday, April 26, and the sexual-assault prevention and response (SAPR) advocates invite you to wear jeans and/or one of the denim pins they’ll have available in Commons from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (donations in exchange for pins will benefit the local non-profit Call to Safety).
Denim Day is an international event started after a rape conviction was overturned in 1998 by (male) appeal judges because “it is a fact of common experience that it is nearly impossible to slip off tight jeans even partly without the active collaboration of the person who is wearing them.”
For more information, contact Rowan Frost or visit:
http://www.reed.edu/sexual_assault/index.html.
Submitted by Robin Tovey.
Posted on Apr 20, 2017