Bloomington Sexual Assault Awareness Coalition

03/24/2016

TW: intimate partner abuse
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02/21/2016

Interesting read

01/29/2016

Just a heads up. This is The Onion people.

CHARLOTTE, NC—Insisting the alleged victim must have an ulterior motive, numerous residents told reporters Thursday that local woman Beth Hutchins probably made up her story about being r**ed just so she could receive a barrage of threatening emails.

01/13/2016

This is Awesome!!!! *xism

Members hope to challenge perceptions of female bodies.

01/11/2016

Great article! It goes into how colleges and universities are going about educating students on consent.

How do you teach college students about sexual consent? The answer: very, very carefully.

12/01/2015

There is not one way survivors respond to trauma. It is not easy to tell someone you love that you have been assaulted, and many survivors remain unable, even years later, to tell those they love that they were violated out of shame and other emotions. Some, for fear of safety and lack of support, k…

11/22/2015

I hope that everybody has a chance to watch this documentary. It will be on several platforms of on demand for the next few days. If there are any questions or opinions, we encourage everybody to post them. We look forward to your response.

CNN will present The Hunting Ground as planned tonight, despite legal threats from a lawyer for Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Jameis Winston. Kirby Dick's documentary about campus sexual assaults will ai...

11/16/2015

First of all, we would like to thank Karsyn Robb for sharing this link with us. This letter is an important reminder that sexual assault affects both the survivor and the ones they love. Secondary survivors often suffer the consequences of sexual assault along with the survivor.

This is an extremely difficult letter to write as I have a hard enough time talking about my daughter being sexually assaulted let alone trying to write about it. Words can’t even begin to express...

11/09/2015

This brilliant video does a great job demonstrating why sexual consent is just like offering someone a cup of tea.

'If they're unconscious, they don't want tea.'

11/09/2015

1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted by the time they leave college.

11/02/2015

Steelers cornerback William Gay was fined by the NFL for wearing purple shoes in the Steelers’ 23-13 loss in Kansas City on Sunday. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Gay wore purple to represent his mother, who lost her life in a domestic violence incident. Jerrold Colton, Gay’s agen…

10/30/2015

If you have not heard of the "Safe Campus Act" yet, this is a good introduction. This bill would prevent Universities from sanctioning the perpetrator of a sexual assault until a formal investigation from local authorities has been conducted. Students who experience sexual assault are less likely to report to the police than they are to school administrators. It I interesting that Fraternities are lobbying for the so called "Safe Campus Act."

“I would be very upset if I were a young woman in a sorority today,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on a press call this afternoon. Along with Sen. Kirs