Globally, the term "sexual assault" covers behavior from unwanted touching to rape. Each state has its own legal definition and criminal code, and thus definitions of acts that constitute sexual assault vary. These definitions are gender neutral because sexual assault happens to both females and males, although the vast majority of sexual assault victims are females. If you've been falsely accused of sexual assault then you should contact a criminal attorney at your earliest possible … [Read more...]
SEXUAL ASSAULT, What is Consent?
May 20, 2015 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: CA-- USES, CONTRIBUTORS, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, alcohol, CANADA, cognitive consent, date rape, drinking, girls, global issue, legal consent, men, rape, Scotland, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual assault under the influence, South Africa, TEENS, UK, What is Consent?, women.
Rape Culture Erases Rape Survivors
October 30, 2014 by Team Celebration
Rape culture is a frighteningly insidious thing in the way it reinforces harmful ideas about gender, personal boundaries, consent, and sexual assault. Rape culture encourages the belief that lying about rape or sexual assault is more common than it really is, and it promotes the silencing of women about sexual assault by subjecting them to harsh judgments and the implication that women are responsible for their own assaults. Women who do report their assaults are disbelieved by people they … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CHILDCARE, Contributors, EDUCATION, FEATURED, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, RECOVERY, RELATIONSHIPS, SELF CARE, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Canadian Women's Foundation, cause and effect, date rape, girls, PTSD, rape, Rape Culture Erases Rape Survivors, relationships, sexual assault, sexual violence, students, survival of violence, women.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month – Take Action!
October 3, 2013 by Team Celebration
Domestic Violence Awareness Month will continue this year as part of the Domestic Violence Awareness Project. The observed month has been running since 1995 when several organizations including the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence united to tackle the problem. Why is Domestic Violence Awareness Month so important? AM I BEING AB-- USED? Does your partner: embarrasses the other person with put-downs looks or acts in ways that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: AMERICAN [U.S.A.], CANADIAN, Contributors, FEATURED, FEATURED EVENTS, SELF CARE, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES, WORLD EVENTS Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, abuse, abused women, acelebrationofwomen.org, Awareness Month - Take Action, child abuse, date rape, dating, divorce, domestic abuse, domestic violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Project, girls, marriage, parent abuse, rape, sexual assault, spousal abuse, TEENS, violence against women., woman, women.
Date Rape Among our Youth, is online porn creating a new phenomena?
August 3, 2012 by Team Celebration
What Is Date Rape? When people think of rape, they might think of a stranger jumping out of a shadowy place and sexually attacking someone. But it's not only strangers who rape. In fact, about half of all people who are raped know the person who attacked them. Girls and women are most often raped, but guys also can be raped, many think because sites like HD sex is only a couple of clicks away it influences their outside behavior, many would argue this point, as well as many would argue that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CHILDCARE, Contributors, FEATURED, RELATIONSHIPS, SELF CARE, Uncategorized, WOMEN Taking ACTION, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, a new phenomena?, alcohol, boys, cell phones, D'Arcy Lyness, date rape, Date Rape among our Youth, drinking, dull common sense, gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), gang rape, girls, girls for girls, isolation, ketamine, loosen inhibitions, Mothers, NO MEANS NO, Phd., phenomena, porn, pornography, rape, rohypnol ("roofies"), sex, sexual assault, SEXUALITY, teen-age behavior, teen-aged, TEENS, text imaging, text messages, texting, threats, U of T, university dorms, University of Toronto, violence, violence against women., watch your drinks, women for women, women.
Just because she isn't saying no…
May 22, 2011 by admin
Just because she isn't saying no... Doesn't mean she's saying yes." "Just because you help her home... Doesn't mean you get to help yourself." "Just because she's drunk doesn't mean she wants to f**k." Those are some of the messages scrawled across posters for a new anti-rape campaign being launched in Ottawa, Canada under the slogan "Don't Be That Guy." The campaign is designed to be a shift away from the "No means no" campaign, which puts the onus on the woman to say no. This campaign … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES Tagged With: "Don't Be That Guy", "No means no" campaign, A Celebration of Women, alcohol, CA-- USES, care2, care2.com, date rape, dating, drinking on a date, drunk women, girls, Just because she isn't saying no..., protest, rape, rape victims, sexual assault, TEENS, violence against women., WOMEN of ACTION™, women taking action, women.
