04/29/2020
**TW: Discussion of Sexual Assault**
Today, the Sisterhood executive board would like to take the time to honor victims and survivors by recognizing Denim Day 2020 as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Join the online/UWO community by sharing your pictures wearing denim and by tagging . Read below for more information about the origins of Denim Day and it’s significance.
“ 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 r**e conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who r**ed 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. Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in response to this case and the activism surrounding it. Since then, what started as a local campaign to bring awareness to victim blaming and destructive myths that surround sexual violence has grown into a movement. As the longest running sexual violence prevention and education campaign in history, Denim Day asks community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion statement by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual violence.”
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