Students rally for “Yes Mean Yes” bill to curb crisis of campus sexual assault in Maryland Annapolis, MD – Over 100 college students are expected to gather on Lawyer’s Mall this Monday calling for new state policy to address the high rates of sexual assault on their campuses. The “Yes Means Yes” bill would mandate […]
Native Women Rally as the U.S. Supreme Court Takes on Tribal Jurisdiction in Sexual Assault Case
FORCE and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center are organizing a demonstration on December 7th outide the U.S. Supreme Court for the hearing of what could turn out to be the most devastating Supreme Court decision for Native Americans in half a century. Despite the fact that its store supervisor sexually assaulted a 13-year-old, Dollar General […]
The Monument Quilt Stands With Tondalo Hall
Survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence are taking their stories to the steps of an Oklahoma prison this Monday to demonstrate how our criminal justice system not only fails, but actually imprisons survivors. Tondalo Hall is a survivor of domestic violence currently serving a 30-year prison sentence for “failing to protect” her child from […]
Hundreds Across Oklahoma Come Together to Support Survivors of Rape and Abuse
Hundreds Across Oklahoma Come Together to Support Survivors of Rape and Abuse The first-ever public monument to survivors of rape and abuse toured Oklahoma this week and was met by hundreds of supporters. The Monument Quilt is an ongoing collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. The Native Alliance Against Violence (NAAV) and […]
The Monument Quilt Will Blanket Lawn at Towson
CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT DEMONSTRATION AT TOWSON WITH PUBLIC ART DISPLAY OF 450 SURVIVAL STORIES Rape is as common on college campuses as beer, football games and toga parties. The ongoing epidemic of sexual assault has been brought to the forefront over the last two years. The youngest students are often the most vulnerable: Female students […]
Monument Quilt Display at Johns Hopkins University
FOUR HUNDRED STORIES PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY In the U.S., one in five women are sexually assaulted while in college. Obtaining a degree in the U.S. actually increases women’s chances of being raped. Over the past two years, a national spotlight has brought this ongoing epidemic out of […]
THE DREAM REIKI PROJECT JOINS THE MONUMENT QUILT IN THE WORK TO UPSET RAPE CULTURE AT GATHERING OF VOICES AT STATE CAPITOL
Touring Healing School and Wellness Center supports survivors of rape in Indian Country during US tour Baltimore, MD The Dream Reiki Project is a traveling Reiki school and wellness center, launched in January 2015. Shameeka Dream, Founder and Reiki Master Teacher is traveling the United States, teaching Reiki along the way. Her goal is to […]
FOUR HUNDRED SURVIVAL STORIES STITCHED TOGETHER IN OKLAHOMA TO SUPPORT NATIVE WOMEN
Native American women are sexually assaulted 2.5 times as often as any other ethnic or racial group. For decades, tens of thousands of Native women have been unable to prosecute the people that rape them on tribal land because of U.S. policy. The 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act began to address this […]
Healing Generations: Shawn Partridge on Colonization, VAWA, and the Monument Quilt
By Alison Rose Fry Native women in the United States are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of sexual assault. Shawn Partridge is too familiar with this reality. She has served as the Program Director of the Family Violence Prevention Program of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation for nearly three years. This week, as part […]
FOUR HUNDRED STORIES STITCH TOGETHER MONUMENT TO SURVIVORS OF RAPE AND ABUSE IN DOWNTOWN TULSA
Native American women are sexually assaulted 2.5 times as often as any other ethnic or racial group. For decades, tens of thousands of Native women have been unable to prosecute the people that rape them on tribal land because of U.S. policy. The 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act began to address this […]