Student Tribune
Today is Denim Day- Wear your denim and visit our table 11am-2pm!
Wear denim in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault on Wednesday April
27th. Join us today 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.
Glasgow, Shannon
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability
04/27/2022