Arkansas Tech College's Workplace of Title IX, the ATU Division of Campus Life, the ATU Scholar Actions Council and ATU fraternities will host a Stroll A Mile In Her Sneakers occasion and a Clothesline Undertaking exhibit along with the celebration of ATU Ladies's Week 2024.
Actions will start on Monday, March four at 2pm with a rally towards sexual and relationship violence at Hindsman Tower.
Folks of all genders are invited to stroll for prevention, study relationship crimson flags and present help for survivors of interpersonal violence.
Males in attendance will probably be invited to put on crimson heels for the stroll as an announcement of listening, studying, alliance and dedication.
These in attendance on the Hindsman Tower on Monday, March four, from 2 to four p.m., may also have the ability to see T-shirts created by ATU neighborhood members for the Clothesline Undertaking.
In line with data offered by the group, the Clothesline Undertaking started in 1990 when members of the Cape Cod Ladies's Agenda hung a clothesline over the Village Inexperienced in Hyannis, Massachusetts, with 31 shirts designed by survivors of kid abuse, rape and sexual abuse.
Members of the ATU neighborhood are invited to design and submit t-shirts that convey their private experiences of interpersonal violence akin to emotional, religious, verbal, bodily, sexual, monetary, technology-based, and different types of sexual abuse, stalking, or harassment. .
Shirts might be dropped off in Doc Bryan Scholar Companies Middle Suites 119, 171, or 233, Tucker Coliseum Entrance, or Room 113B within the Hull Constructing Scholar Union weekdays, eight:00 a.m. to five:00 p.m. by Wednesday, February 28. Clean shirts can be found in Suite 171 of the Doc Bryan Scholar Companies Middle whereas provides final.
After the March 4th occasion, the Clothesline Undertaking shirts will probably be displayed within the Hull Constructing Scholar Union for the rest of Ladies's Week. Afterwards, the shirts will probably be saved for future Clothesline Undertaking exhibitions at ATU.
Pattern shirts for the Clothesline Undertaking can be found at https://theclotheslineproject.org/photographs.htm.
Extra particulars can be found at www.atu.edu/titleix/training_options.php.
The rally may also embrace an observance of the Pink Flag Marketing campaign.
Analysis signifies that 1 in 5 faculty college students expertise intimate associate violence. The Pink Flag marketing campaign makes use of a bystander intervention technique to handle and stop sexual assault, relationship violence, and stalking on faculty campuses. The marketing campaign encourages associates and different members of the campus neighborhood to talk up after they see warning indicators (“crimson flags”) of sexual assault, relationship violence or relationship stalking.
For extra details about the March four rally, e-mail mbell11@atu.edu.