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Ô  À    Educational Program

    
     
SART Advocate & Gender Studies Doctoral Student
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Ô  À    Educational Program


   
   
 
This event acted as a
catalyst for students and
community members to
anonymously (or not)
express their
experiences without fear.

It established trust between us


and the Project HOW girls
(which is key in effective
mentorship).

Prior to this event the Project HOW girls


engaged in five weeks of classroom
education in sexual assault prevention
education and feminist theory using popular
culture as our object of analysis.
The aftermath of the Project HOW event.
A Project
HOW
high
school
student

This event was


organized in
response to a
campus ³date´
rape that was
³dealt with´ quietly
by the university
administration.

The line of silent


protestors
stretched across
the entire campus.

Bystanders were
forced to
encounter the
silent protestors.
A Project HOW (college student) mentor.
Once per hour Anne talked loudly about the campus rape culture.
The Project HOW girls organize
their first independent event.

The clothesline displayed survivor stories for a full


week at their High School.
The Project HOW
girls organized
this event for the
High School in
response to
hateful comments
in the halls about
their group being
³feminazis.´

This was followed


with a community
event in which 40
teen boys
screened Ô  
. Thereafter
a group of five
formed a summer
³club´ to watch
movies then
discuss the
violence.
Voices of en
(Project
HOW
student
organizers).
³Rocky
Balboa´

³Austin
Powers´

ore than M  ! ' 


at the local high school
  V V V
 
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Project HOW
high school
student
organizers.
A Project HOW
student¶s independent
activism project.

She organized this after


the 10 week curriculum
was ³over.´

any of the girls stayed


involved with the group,
continued sexual
assault activism, and
became mentors to the
next groups.

Two previous high


school aged Project
HOW students now
teach the program in
outlying rural
communities.
Project H.O.W.
students took
the stage at
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Dawn ±who is
John Holmes, the
deceased porn
king¶s (now
grown) teen
victim of kidnap,
rape, and forced
sex work²is a
survivor living in
the community.

Survivors shared
their stories in
various ways . . .
Teenage girls sitting quietly and listening . . . Who would think it was possible?
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They are listening because this is about them.

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