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8/7/2019 Project How Ppt Nwsa

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Project H.O.W.Healthy Outlooks for Women

a FeministRape Intervention Educational Program

Chris Marie MartinSART AdvocateShelter from the Storm

DV and Battered Womens Shelter

La Grande, Oregon

Cierra Olivia Thomas-WilliamsGender Studies Doctoral Student

Indiana University Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

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2/18

This is just one example of the CDC Expect Respect

campaign currently promoted by The Body Shop (available online at www.dvirc.org.au). Whilethe text may imply that every type of person deserves respect, the pictures throughout the eleven page booklet

all depict, thus appeal to,

heterosexual gender-normative youth.


3/18

CDC media materials teach children the doctrine ofchoice

Demand Respect. Get it. Give it.

CDC fictional scenarios (reflect compulsory heterosexuality):

You see yourfriendflirting with another boy just to make her boyfriend

jealous. Youchoose to:

Your boyfriend is staring at another girland it is making you jealous. You

choose to:

-These quiz questions all lead to the point-

Youve got a choice. Choose to treat people the way youwant to be treatedandsee how thatchoice makes you

feel.[CDC radio ad, ChooseRespect.org]

The rhetoric of choice blames the victim.


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5/18

This event acted as acatalyst for students and

community members to

anonymously (or not)

express their

experiences without

fear.

It established trust

between us and theProject HOW girls.


6/18

A Project

HOWhigh

school

student


7/18

A Project HOW (college student) mentor.


8/18

A Project HOW event.


9/18

The Project HOW girls organize

their first independent event.

The clothesline displayed survivor stories for a fullweek at their High School.


10/18

The Project HOW

girls organized

this event for the

High School inresponse to

hateful comments

in the halls about

their group being

feminazis.

This was followed

with a community

event in which 40

teen boys

screened Tough

Guise. Thereafter

a group of five

formed a summer

club to watch

movies then

discuss the

violence.


11/18

More than 150 young men

at the local high school

pledged to end violence

against women.

Voices ofMen(Project

HOW

student

organizers).

RockyBalboa

AustinPowers


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13/18

Project HOW

high school

student

organizers.


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15/18

A Project HOW

students project.


16/18

Project H.O.W.

students tookthe stage at

Take Back the

Night


17/18

Survivors shared

their stories in

various ways . . .


18/18

Teenage girls sitting quietly and listening . . . Who would think it was possible?

25% girls and young women are raped each year.

They are listening because this is about them.

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