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Thursday, December 06, 2007
 

Photo Steevens Alconcel | Daily Trojan
The Clothesline Project exhibits T-shirts designed by victims of sexual violence, their families and friends.

 

Ignore sexual violence no more: WSA begs 'SC to "shatter the silence"

In America someone is sexually assaulted every two and a half minutes. In American one in six women and one in 33 men are victims of sexual assault.

In America 44 percent of rape victims are under age 18, and 80 percent are under age 30.

To protect themselves from becoming a statistic, university activists all over the country Take Back the Night.

 

sub1_blurb75 College feminists up against social stigma

The 1960s are over. No one is a feminist anymore...right?

How feminism went from being the powerhouse of the women's rights movement to an embarrassment younger generations ignore, and why this new anti-feminism is unraveling years of social progress.

sub1_blurb75 Be the change: how to spread the word

How "artivism" can build bridges and heal even the deepest of wounds.

USC women face the dangers of sexual violence through a combination of art and activism that strengthens one core message through the bonds of sisterhood -- feminism is still important.

     
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