INDEX: HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS UP

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FRIDAY, April 6, 2018; 5-9pm at Civic Space Park — Businesses and community are coming together to support survivors of sexual assault & domestic violence.

  • Educating, empowering, and honoring survivors
  • Tables of vendors, support, services, art, and more!

Kick at Darkness, Inc will have a table there as well as a survivor exhibit that shows clothing of survivors — to answer the question, “What were you wearing when…” It is NEVER the victim’s fault, and we are hear to change the conversation.

Although the #MeToo campaign existed prolifically for years, in 2017 the actress and advocate Alyssa Milano called on Twitter users to employ the hashtag to denounce sexual harassment, assault, and abuse, and to share their stories.

The hashtag has since been translated in over 100 languages and used around the world on social media and beyond.

ARTICLES

Advocates & Survivors in Hollywood

Other frontrunners for victims’ rights in Hollywood include actors and actresses who have shared their harrowing survivor stories or voices of advocacy, including:

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EVENTS

Turning the Tide for Survivors

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VOICES

Changing the Future for Survivors

  • 2018 INTERVIEW WITH ALY RAISMAN (HuffingtonPost.com)
    • Olympic Gymnast speaks out about victim shaming
    • “By saying clothing is part of the issue, [you] are victim shaming/implying survivors should feel it’s their fault.”
  • 2018 INTERVIEW WITH MARISKA HARGITAY (People.com)
    • Actress on Law & Order Special Victim’s Unit, Advocate and founder of Joyful Heart Foundation: Mariska Hargitay
      • Mariska talks about the rape-kit backlog across our nation and how she is helping transform the landscape for current rape survivors and future generations
      • Her documentary, I Am Evidence, discussing this crisis will be airing on HBO on April 16, 2018
  • 2018 INTERVIEW WITH MARISKA HARGITAY (HuffingtonPost.com)
    • PSA on the rape-kit backlog
    • “When a person is sexually assaulted and chooses to undergo the invasive four-to-six hour evidence collection examination at the hospital, they expect the kit will be tested and the evidence used to prosecute the attacker. The public expects the same.”
  • 2017 INTERVIEW WITH FACEBOOK’S COO (HuffingtonPost.com) 
    • Sheryl Sandberg: Sexual Harassment Backlash
      • Sandberg warns women that sexual harassment backlash is going to present itself harshly
      • Not to let it dissuade us from speaking up or empowering women to promote the importance of corporate diversity
  • 2017 TIME MAGAZINE’S PERSON OF THE YEAR (Time.com)
    • POTY: The Silence Breakers
      • Steering away from its usual pick of a single person to grace its annual “Person of the Year” edition
      • Time Magazine devoted 2017 to the Silence Breakers
      • Women ranging from celebrities to farm workers and corporate to contract workers who have suffered sexual, physical, and emotional abuses in the workplace
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