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MCC Daily Tribune

Remember to wear your denim tomorrow!!!

Wear denim in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault on Wednesday April 27th. Join us in the 2nd floor Cafeteria Terrace on the Brighton Campus from 11am-2pm to show your support and get some swag (pins, stickers, and more)!

Denim Day is a campaign on a Wednesday in April in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The campaign began after a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing tight jeans she must have helped the person who raped her remove her jeans, thereby implying consent. The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim. Peace Over Violence developed the Denim Day campaign in response to this case and the activism surrounding it. Since then, what started as a local campaign to bring awareness to victim blaming and destructive myths that surround sexual violence has grown into a movement. As the longest running sexual violence prevention and education campaign in history, Denim Day asks community members, elected officials, businesses and students to make a social statement with their fashion statement by wearing jeans on this day as a visible means of protest against the misconceptions that surround sexual violence.

Learn more about the history behind Denim Day here.

Contact Shannon Glasgow at sglasgow@monroecc.edu with any questions.

Shannon Glasgow
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability
04/26/2022