Ending Violence Against Women:
Packet 2 - Movement
End-the-Silence / Feminism
Worksheet #2
There is an active movement to end the silencing of sexual abuse survivors, and to give women equal respect as men (feminism). Read/watch the below resources to learn about this movement. Gather information for your presentation, where you will convince your audience that this is the movement that is the most exciting / needs the most attention right now.
End the Silence of Survivors of Abuse
#1: Miss World, A Rape Survivor, Speaks Out Against Rape
Upworthy.com: “Hearing a former Miss World winner talk about her rape (and the subsequent legal hell) is sobering. But seeing other women opening up to her so they can finally heal? It's a brave and wonderful thing.”
http://www.upworthy.com/a-few-weeks-before-she-was-crowned-miss-world-she-was-raped-but-this-isnt-just-her-story-2?c=ufb1
Follow the above link and watch the video. Write main points below:
1.
2.
3.
#2: San Francisco Survivors Speak Out
CHATT is a group of survivors who now go to schools, churches and other places to speak about their experience. Read their website and think about these experiences. Then, answer the questions below.
http://traumarecoverycenter.org/services/chatt/
How might being a speaker with CHATT be beneficial for a survivor?
How might listening to the story of a survivor be helpful for students or other people?
#3: Pandora’s Online Support Group
Pandora's Project offers peer support to anyone who has been a victim of rape, sexual assault, or sexual abuse through our online support group, Pandora's Aquarium. We believe that connecting with other rape and sexual abuse survivors is an important part of healing. Our online support group includes a message board, chat room, and blogs. It is free to join and is safely moderated by a diverse group of survivors.
Visit the website for more information:
http://www.pandys.org/
#4: Shape an Image: Survivors, not Victims
Part of the movement to help people who have been sexually assaulted is to call them “survivors” instead of just “victims”. What is emphasized when they are called “survivors”? What might be helpful about this?
#5: YouTube of Survivors
Follow the below link to watch a video made by survivors, through Pandora’s group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLXV98HXqs
Why might this video be helpful for the survivors who made it?
Why might this video be helpful for other survivors who are watching it?
Why might this video be helpful to show the world how big of a problem sexual assault is?
#6: Take Back the Night
Take Back the Night (also known as Reclaim the Night) is an internationally held march and rally intended as a protest and direct action against rape and other forms of sexual violence.
The first "Take Back the Night" march was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in October 1975, after the murder of a microbiologist, Susan Alexander Speeth, who was stabbed to death while walking home alone.
A "Reclaim the Night" march was held in Belgium in March 1976 by the women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women. They marched together holding candles to protest violence against women. Other marches were held in Rome in 1976 as a reaction to recently released rape statistics, in West Germany in 1977 demanding "the right to move freely in their communities at day and night without harassment and sexual assault," and in 11 towns in England later in 1977 in response to the "Ripper Murders" in Leeds.
In 2006 a Reclaim the Night was organized in Ipswich as a response to the murders of five prostitutes there, with between 200 and 300 attendees.
Events typically consist of a rally followed by a march and often a speak-out or candlelight vigil on violence against women. The marches are often deliberately women-only in order to symbolize women's individual walk through darkness and to demonstrate that women united can resist fear and violence. Other marches include men; the organization differs as each event is organized locally.
For further information, and to see the Take Back the Night Pledge:
http://takebackthenight.org/pledge
Go to the below website, which is the “Sexual Assault Recovery” page. Pick one part of recovery, and write 5-8 bullets of the information that you think would be most helpful for teenagers who are survivors.
http://www.rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-recovery
Part 2: Feminism
#1: Watch the following video, of Beyoncé talking about her recent album.
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity/545215/beyonc-talks-feminism-and-blue-ivy-in-the-best-video-you-ll-watch-today.html#index=1
If the link doesn't work, try google searching "beyonce talks feminism" and click on the link from marie claire
Why does Beyoncé say that she included a clip from Adichie, the author of Purple Hibiscus?
There are a lot of clips of a woman onstage, and men as judges. How does that connect to the message from Adichie?
Why does Beyoncé say that perfection is damaging?
Do you think Beyoncé is a feminist? Why or why not?
#2: Media and Women
Title: Five Minutes on What the Media Actually Does to Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xAbAeZ-Gog
Main points:
1.
2.
3.
In the past, a video like this didn’t exist. How could you consider the makers of this video to be fighting for equality for women?
#3: Anita Sarkeesian creates “Feminst Frequency” youtubes about women in video games, receives massive online harassment, but also massive backing
Watch the following video. The transcript is below if you want to read as you watch.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/12/tedxwomen-talk-on-sexist-harassment-cyber-mobs/
What are Anita’s Youtubes about?
Why did she want to make them?
Explain the online harassment that she faced. What happened? How much?
What did she do in the face of this harassment? What did her supporters do?
I
The link below is to the Youtubes she made that started it all. You might choose to pick a 1-minute section from one to show your audience in your presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/user/feministfrequency
#4: Brave New Voices
Brave New Voices are youth poets who perform about various issues. A number of winning poems have been about giving women equality to men. Watch the two poem performances below.
Poem 1: Halloween Monster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXk3uhlhAVY&feature=youtu.be
Describe the message of this poem:
Poem 2: Shrinking Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQucWXWXp3k
Describe the message of this poem:
What makes these performance poems a good strategy for getting people to respect women?
Worksheet #2
There is an active movement to end the silencing of sexual abuse survivors, and to give women equal respect as men (feminism). Read/watch the below resources to learn about this movement. Gather information for your presentation, where you will convince your audience that this is the movement that is the most exciting / needs the most attention right now.
End the Silence of Survivors of Abuse
#1: Miss World, A Rape Survivor, Speaks Out Against Rape
Upworthy.com: “Hearing a former Miss World winner talk about her rape (and the subsequent legal hell) is sobering. But seeing other women opening up to her so they can finally heal? It's a brave and wonderful thing.”
http://www.upworthy.com/a-few-weeks-before-she-was-crowned-miss-world-she-was-raped-but-this-isnt-just-her-story-2?c=ufb1
Follow the above link and watch the video. Write main points below:
1.
2.
3.
#2: San Francisco Survivors Speak Out
CHATT is a group of survivors who now go to schools, churches and other places to speak about their experience. Read their website and think about these experiences. Then, answer the questions below.
http://traumarecoverycenter.org/services/chatt/
How might being a speaker with CHATT be beneficial for a survivor?
How might listening to the story of a survivor be helpful for students or other people?
#3: Pandora’s Online Support Group
Pandora's Project offers peer support to anyone who has been a victim of rape, sexual assault, or sexual abuse through our online support group, Pandora's Aquarium. We believe that connecting with other rape and sexual abuse survivors is an important part of healing. Our online support group includes a message board, chat room, and blogs. It is free to join and is safely moderated by a diverse group of survivors.
Visit the website for more information:
http://www.pandys.org/
#4: Shape an Image: Survivors, not Victims
Part of the movement to help people who have been sexually assaulted is to call them “survivors” instead of just “victims”. What is emphasized when they are called “survivors”? What might be helpful about this?
#5: YouTube of Survivors
Follow the below link to watch a video made by survivors, through Pandora’s group
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLXV98HXqs
Why might this video be helpful for the survivors who made it?
Why might this video be helpful for other survivors who are watching it?
Why might this video be helpful to show the world how big of a problem sexual assault is?
#6: Take Back the Night
Take Back the Night (also known as Reclaim the Night) is an internationally held march and rally intended as a protest and direct action against rape and other forms of sexual violence.
The first "Take Back the Night" march was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in October 1975, after the murder of a microbiologist, Susan Alexander Speeth, who was stabbed to death while walking home alone.
A "Reclaim the Night" march was held in Belgium in March 1976 by the women attending the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women. They marched together holding candles to protest violence against women. Other marches were held in Rome in 1976 as a reaction to recently released rape statistics, in West Germany in 1977 demanding "the right to move freely in their communities at day and night without harassment and sexual assault," and in 11 towns in England later in 1977 in response to the "Ripper Murders" in Leeds.
In 2006 a Reclaim the Night was organized in Ipswich as a response to the murders of five prostitutes there, with between 200 and 300 attendees.
Events typically consist of a rally followed by a march and often a speak-out or candlelight vigil on violence against women. The marches are often deliberately women-only in order to symbolize women's individual walk through darkness and to demonstrate that women united can resist fear and violence. Other marches include men; the organization differs as each event is organized locally.
For further information, and to see the Take Back the Night Pledge:
http://takebackthenight.org/pledge
Go to the below website, which is the “Sexual Assault Recovery” page. Pick one part of recovery, and write 5-8 bullets of the information that you think would be most helpful for teenagers who are survivors.
http://www.rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-recovery
Part 2: Feminism
#1: Watch the following video, of Beyoncé talking about her recent album.
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity/545215/beyonc-talks-feminism-and-blue-ivy-in-the-best-video-you-ll-watch-today.html#index=1
If the link doesn't work, try google searching "beyonce talks feminism" and click on the link from marie claire
Why does Beyoncé say that she included a clip from Adichie, the author of Purple Hibiscus?
There are a lot of clips of a woman onstage, and men as judges. How does that connect to the message from Adichie?
Why does Beyoncé say that perfection is damaging?
Do you think Beyoncé is a feminist? Why or why not?
#2: Media and Women
Title: Five Minutes on What the Media Actually Does to Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xAbAeZ-Gog
Main points:
1.
2.
3.
In the past, a video like this didn’t exist. How could you consider the makers of this video to be fighting for equality for women?
#3: Anita Sarkeesian creates “Feminst Frequency” youtubes about women in video games, receives massive online harassment, but also massive backing
Watch the following video. The transcript is below if you want to read as you watch.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/12/tedxwomen-talk-on-sexist-harassment-cyber-mobs/
What are Anita’s Youtubes about?
Why did she want to make them?
Explain the online harassment that she faced. What happened? How much?
What did she do in the face of this harassment? What did her supporters do?
I
The link below is to the Youtubes she made that started it all. You might choose to pick a 1-minute section from one to show your audience in your presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/user/feministfrequency
#4: Brave New Voices
Brave New Voices are youth poets who perform about various issues. A number of winning poems have been about giving women equality to men. Watch the two poem performances below.
Poem 1: Halloween Monster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXk3uhlhAVY&feature=youtu.be
Describe the message of this poem:
Poem 2: Shrinking Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQucWXWXp3k
Describe the message of this poem:
What makes these performance poems a good strategy for getting people to respect women?