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Slutwalk 2012 - Event Details
Today is SLUTWALK HAMILTON 2012! This is a feminist, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, non-violent event. Please come as you are, bring water and sunscreen because it’s going to be hot!
EVENT SCHEDULE:
2pm – We Gather at City Hall
2:15pm – Speakers Begin
1. Linda Ense
2. Erin Crickett
3. Morgan M Page
4. Jeff Perera
5. Deb Nanson
6. Queen Cee
3pm – We Walk
3:25pm – Testimonials at Hess
There will be a designated Kid’s Area where parents and guardians are welcome to enjoy activities with the children. Childcare will also be available by request if parents would like a safe space for kids to remain while they participate in other SlutWalk Hamilton activities.
We are SO EXCITED – see you at 2pm!!
Slutwalk Hamilton 2012: Basic rules for walking with us
Slutwalk Hamilton is a feminist, anti-oppressive event, with a focus on diversity and inclusivity. We are striving to include speakers working with various populations in Hamilton and Toronto in the hopes that everyone in the Hamilton Area can feel represented and included in this movement. As always, all allies are welcome to attend.
Behaviours that will be considered unacceptable at Slutwalk Hamilton’s event:
- Touching or photographing anyone without predetermined consent
- street harassment (commenting on people’s bodies, whistling, cat-calling, making sexual remarks or gestures without expressed approval)
- asking questions about experiences of sexual violence
- racist, anti-immigrant, sexist, heterosexist, homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, ablist (or otherwise oppressive) slurs, jokes, hateful or inappropriate comments
- attempts to corrupt the message of Slutwalk Hamilton
- If you are not sure that your behaviour is acceptable it probably isn’t.
Behaviour we encourage at Slutwalk Hamilton:
- dedication to the values of Slutwalk Hamilton
- respect for Slutwalkers
- respect for organizers
- asking for consent!
- The choice to go topless or not
- Consensual hugs
- Cheering, holding up signs, community building
- Active listening
Slutwalk Hamilton welcomes open dialogue and discussion about sexual violence so that we can learn from each other. However, please keep in mind that these discussions will only be productive if respectful.
If you feel that you or someone around you is acting in an inappropriate manner please report to any one of the several marshals at the event. They are there to keep everybody safe.
Slutwalk is about respect and inclusivity. Behaviours deemed outside of that realm may result in legal action.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
Jessica Prominski
Media Coordinator, Slutwalk Hamilton
Joey Mleczko
Media Coordinator, Slutwalk Hamilton
Twitter: SlutwalkHAM
Facebook: Slutwalk Hamilton (community OR event)
Tumblr: slutwalkhamilton.tumblr.com
Jul. 1, 2012 at 9:35am with 25 notes
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Rape is presented as something women can avoid, like the rain, but those who don‘t, are a special breed of women apart from all others; something about them meant that nature picked them out to be raped; it wasn‘t something about the rapist that caused them to be raped, it was something about them.
When that man told me that I wasn‘t like a rape victim, that shut me up about being raped for nearly a quarter of a century. He didn‘t know it, but he was telling me that if I spoke up about having been raped, I would be declaring myself different from all other women. I didn’t analyse it at the time, but at a gut level I knew that to be a rape victim, meant to be either the Madonna or the Whore type and I knew I didn’t fit into the Madonna box.
So I shut up for twenty-five years. That’s what the othering of rape victims does to us - it silences us.
Jun. 30, 2012 at 10:56am with 126 notes
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To me, “sex positive” means being comfortable with the idea of sex and sexuality whether or not one engages in sexual behaviors and regardless of past sexual experiences. Being sex positive means being inclusive of all gender and sexuality minorities, understanding the human body, and taking pride in being a sexual (or asexual) being.
10:55am with 2,857 notes
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Women owning their sexual pleasure veers dangerously close to women wanting to own their bodies. And we can’t have that! The more sexual agency you possess, the less of an object you become. That’s threatening to a lot of people.
10:55am with 55,428 notes
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Eradicating rape may very well be impossible. But as long as we continue to view it as a crime committed by an individual against another individual, absent of any social context, we will have little success in combating it. Women must feel fully entitled to public engagement and consensual sex - and if conservative and anti-feminist men [people] continue to argue that women’s very public presence enables men to assault them, then perhaps they’re the ones who should be pressured to stay home.
10:53am with 86 notes
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SlutWalk Seattle: How Should We Talk to Boys About Sexual Abuse?
Have you talked with your sons and daughters about the Jerry Sandusky case, and if you have, what did you say? Opening arguments in the trial against Mr. Sandusky, along with Amos Kamil’s New York Times Magazine story this weekend about sexual abuse at the Horace Mann…
10:52am with 9 notes
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![fuckyeahsouthasia:
“Repeat after me! no woman of any age, colour, character ever deserves to be sexually violated or what some might lightly call ‘eve-teasing.’” [follow this link to find a short clip and analysis of the discourse on street harassment in India:http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2012/05/decentering-and-recentering-the-discussion-on-street-harassment.html]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4h78yL9ne1qh0z61o1_500.jpg)
“Repeat after me! no woman of any age, colour, character ever deserves to be sexually violated or what some might lightly call ‘eve-teasing.’”
[follow this link to find a short clip and analysis of the discourse on street harassment in India:http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2012/05/decentering-and-recentering-the-discussion-on-street-harassment.html]
10:52am with 15 notes
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SlutWalk Seattle: Sexual abuse of children is widespread – let's confront the difficult truth
…child sexual abuse and exploitation takes place everywhere, by a significant number of adults (mainly, the research tells us, men) and that there are a number of methods used. Survivors, feminist campaigners, child rights advocates and legislators – not to mention…
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SlutWalk Denver: Consent
I have so many feels about this topic, as it’s one that people aren’t ever really taught properly. Basically I’ve been told that screaming “NO” and fighting back signals lack of consent, and every other form of behavior is seen as consent. This is a horrifying attitude.
So…
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10:49am with 18 notes
Reblogged from slutwalkdenver
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I tried to explain to my friends that maybe I was the crazy one — the intense individual who caused these emotional explosions — I was met with hearty laughs, pats on the back and assurances that this was not the case. But why not? Because girls are crazy, man! We all know it. God they can be so emotional and needy, right? Good thing we don’t ever get like that. Nope, never. See, the world doesn’t need more male-driven narratives about “crazy” females. It’s absolutely a played out angle, but more than that, it hurts our female friends.
