For Sexual Assault Awareness Month, UC Offers a Variety of Activities to Spotlight Sexual Assault, Its Signs and Solutions

“Sexual Assault Awareness Month is a month of programming dedicated to education around issues of sexual violence,” says Kim Fulbright, Sexual Assault Prevention Program Coordinator in the UC Women’s Center. “The theme this year is ‘Reclaim.’  Reclaim provides and opportunity to speak to issues of prevention as well as an arena for survivors to empower themselves. We're really excited about  having such a diverse range of programs this year from as local as Cincinnati's 18th annual ‘Take Back the Night’ to a program on violence against women in Iraq."

March 27 and 29
Where: 427 TUC
When: 7:30–9 p.m.
“Sexual Assault and the LGBT Community,” lecture

Monday, April 2
Where: TUC Atrium
When: 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m.
Resource tables with information available on sexual assault:

• Talbert House
• UC Domestic Violence Clinic
• Student Activities & Leadership Development
• ”Shades of You” student organization
• UC Counseling Center
• Campus Ministries
• UC Wellness Center
• UC Women’s Center and peer advocates

Tuesday, April 3
Where: Catskeller, TUC 1st floor
When: 7–10 p.m.
“Slammin’ on Main,” poetry jam

Wednesday, April 4
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon–2 p.m.
“Tape,” movie — “Sex in the Cinema” series, followed by a discussion facilitated by staff of the UC Counseling Center. Two old friends pass the time reminiscing about the good old times which take a turn when Vince records their conversation with Jon admitting to a possible date-rape of Vince's old girlfriend Amy, who later shows up and opens up a new wave of talk and
arguments about whose story is fact or fabricated.

Friday, April 6
Where: UC Women’s Center, 571 Steger Student Life Center
When: noon–2 p.m.
“In her Shoes,” Interactive
Simulate trying to get out of a situation of intimate partner violence with trained volunteers.

Wednesday, April 11
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon–2 p.m.
“Searching for Angela Shelton,” movie — “Sex in the Cinema” series
An actress named Angela Shelton is on a quest for identity as a way of trying to heal from a childhood of sexual abuse. When she decided to make a film of as many Angela Sheltons as she could find, little did she know that half of them would share her history of sexual abuse.

Wednesday, April 18
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon–2 p.m.
“Killing Us Softly III,” movie — “Sex in the Cinema” series
Filmmaker Jean Kilbourne’s third movie examines advertising’s image of women. And the techniques that advertisers use to get men and women to buy into gender sterrotypes.

Thursday, April 19, Keynote Speaker of Sexual Assault Awareness Month:
“A Window of Hope: Standing with Women in Iraq to End Violence” 

Where: Raymond Walters College, Science & Allied Health Building
When: 2–3:30 p.m.

and again on the Uptown Campus

Where: Richard E. Lindner Center, Room 450
When: 7 p.m.

Yanar Mohammed, director of the "Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq" and an Iraqi woman, will speak about violence against women in Iraq. She will describe how women are creating hope in Iraq and will relate the experiences of women on the frontlines of the struggle to end gender-based violence while building a democratic Iraq.

Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Sexual Assault Awareness Month Committee.

Wednesday, April 25
Where: TUC, MainStreet Cinema
When: noon–2 p.m.
“Boys Don’t Cry,” movie — “Sex in the Cinema” series
The true story of the life of Brandon Teena, a transgendered teen who preferred life in a male identity until it was discovered he was born a biological female.

Friday, April 27
Where: Meet in the TUC Atrium for the trip downtown
When: 5:30 p.m.
“Take Back the Night,” rally

On-campus rally and free bus service to and from city-wide event in downtown Cincinnati. The march and candlelight vigil start at 7 p.m. at Bicentennial Commons in Sawyer Point. The march, designed to raise awareness about sexual and physical assault, ends in a ceremony at the Millennium Peace Bell in Newport. For more information, call the Rape Crisis and Abuse Center of Hamilton County at 513-977-5541.

Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities are co-sponsored by the UC offices of Diversity Education, Public Safety, Campus Ministries Association, Women's Studies,
Athletics, the Wellness Center, the Counseling Center, Resident Education and Development, MainStreet, Raymond Walters College, the College of Law, Sorority & Fraternity Life.