SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH

Events

April 7th: Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
12pm|https://aub.ie/saamyoga

April 13th: Self-Defense and Body Empowerment Workshop
6:30pm| Register by noon on April 13th

April 29th: Denim Day
Please wear denim in honor of survivors of sexual assault.  Tag us on social media!

April 30th: Virtual Take Back the Night
8pm EST | You must register in advance!

Resources

International Student Support 

Rape Counselors of East Alabama

• Information on Consent
• The Clothesline Project

Safe Harbour

Reading List

• Available on Bookshop:
  • Know My Name by Chanel Miller (MS; memoir)
  • Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxanne Gay (MS; memoir)
  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk (MS; healing/education)
  • Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines (MS; healing/education)
  • The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz (MS; healing/education)
  • We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by 
  • Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Assault by Lisa Factora-Borchers
  • Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
  • The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
  • Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur
  • The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
  • Flux by Orion Carloto
  • Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer
  • What is a Girl Worth? My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics (memoir)
• Free RBD e-books:
  • #MeToo by New York Times Editorial Staff
  •  Campus Sexual Assault by Lauren J. Germain
  • Cry Rape by Bill Lueders
  • Rape New York by Jana Leo
  • Take It As a Compliment by Maria Stoian
  • Unbreakable by Jane Caro (Editor); Tanya Plibersek (Forward by)
• Free Online:
  • The Courage to Be Me (free and for purchase on Amazon)
  • An Unbelievable Story of Rape by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong (MS; see below)
  • Black Women and Sexual Assault
  • Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA by Amnesty International
  • We Believe You from Ryerson University (free coloring book) 
  • Zami by Audre Lorde 
• Podcasts and videos:
  • Anatomy of Doubt, This American Life (MS; based on the longform article “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” which was later adapted to the Netflix series “Unbelievable”)
  • Believed Podcast – Michigan Public Radio