Facebook group you'll WANT to Join: "Say No To Rapejokes"

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Facebook group you'll WANT to Join: "Say No To Rapejokes"

[TW: link will include talk of rape, rape culture]

A cause near and fear to my heart. From their description:

We are a group of five gender studies students from SZABIST studying Social Sciences. As part of our gender action project we have launched an online campaign to create awareness regarding rape culture, with the help of Karachi Tips.

Rape is a very serious issue in our society that has a very damaging and long lasting impact on its survivors and the culture prevalent in society around rape such as jokes and insensitive language work to undermine the seriousness of this crime, as well as to cause survivors unnecessary pain and psychological trauma.

We aim to address this issue and create awareness about the impact of such jokes and behavior through a social media campaign on Facebook and twitter. In this regard we would really appreciate it if you could like this page and fully support the campaign by spreading it as much as you can and changing your Facebook display picture.

(Source: seriouslyamerica)