{"id":17848,"date":"2021-05-01T03:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17848"},"modified":"2021-05-01T03:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T11:48:03","slug":"clothes-are-not-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/clothes-are-not-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Clothes are not consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>WOU clubs and organizations promote awareness of sexual assault by participating in Denim Day<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Sydney Carpenter<\/strong> | News Editor <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For 22 years, Denim Day has been dedicated towards promoting awareness of sexual assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At Western, various organizations on campus \u23e4 such as <\/span><span>Abby\u2019s House, the Student Health and Counseling Center and University Housing \u23e4 are taking to social media on April 28, opening their space for students, staff, faculty and members of the community to participate in wearing denim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Denim Day was first celebrated in Los Angeles, California in 1999 after a 1992 Italian court case conviciting a 45-year-old driving instructor of raping an 18-year-old was overturned by the Italian Supreme Court on the premise that victim was wearing tight jeans and had to help the assailant remove the garment, constituting under Italian law as consenual sex. In over 50 countries, this is now known as the \u201cjeans alibi,\u201d according to denimdayinfo.org.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe believe survivors. Survivors are never to blame for experiencing sexual violence,\u201d said Abby\u2019s House Advocate Rocio Avalos. \u201c<\/span><span>Wearing denim on Denim Day shows support for survivors and those who have experienced sexual violence by pushing back on harmful narratives, victim-blaming rhetoric and rape culture \u2026 We can change the conversation, express our support and belief of survivors and end sexual assault and interpersonal violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To participate this year, community members are invited to take pictures of themselves on Instagram using \u201c#DenimDay\u201d and tag @abbyshouse_wou in the photo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Western community members interested in learning more, visit the Abby\u2019s House website, wou.edu\/abbyshouse\/.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu\">scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TW: Sexual Assault<\/p>\n<p>WOU clubs and organizations promote awareness of sexual assault by participating in Denim Day<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Carpenter | News Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1071,143,1073,1072,145,1070,39],"class_list":["post-17848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-denim-day","tag-news","tag-ssa","tag-ssa-awareness-month","tag-sydney-carpenter","tag-tw-sexual-assault","tag-wou"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}