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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). The spotlight shines on this uncomfortable topic to generate awareness and to educate students, faculty and staff about prevention and consent. It also offers survivors a much-needed healing space to have their voices and their stories heard.

College-age adults are at higher risk for sexual violence, with 26.4% of undergraduate females and 6.8% of undergraduate males experiencing sexual assault.

Georgia Gwinnett College has teamed up with Mosaic Georgia, a sexual assault and children’s advocacy center in Duluth, to provide a variety of April activities designed for you to learn, gain insight, engage and show support for survivors. 

Here’s a look at the upcoming campus events. 

What Were You Wearing Exhibit 

• March 24-–April 9 and April 25-–30 
• Daniel J. Kaufman Library & Learning Center

This powerful exhibit, inspired by a poem written by survivor Mary Simmerling, depicts clothing worn during sexual assaults and combats victim-blaming myths that certain types of clothes invite sexual violence. 

The Clothesline Project Exhibit 

• March 28-April 30
• Student Center Lounge

This clothesline display features T-shirts with short messages created by sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence survivors. The array of T-shirts helps bring awareness to the issue and allows survivors a healing space to express their emotions.

Teal Day

• April 1 

Show your support on the SAAM Day of Action by wearing teal.

Denim Day

• April 30

Stand in solidarity with survivors by wearing jeans to call attention to the unjust overturning of a rape conviction in an Italian court in 1992 that suggested the wearing of tight jeans equaled consent.

Listen as the Mosaic Georgia teams passionately relays “Why They Wear Denim.”

Mosaic Georgia strives to enhance safety, health and justice for all affected by sexualized violence.

Learn more about Mosaic Georgia’s services.

Their crisis line can be reached anytime at 866.900.6019.