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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, Indiana

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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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Project H.O.W.

Healthy Outlooks for Women

a FeministRape Intervention Educational Program

Feminist pedagogy blames the establishment.


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This event acted as a

catalyst for students and

community members toanonymously (or not)

express their

experiences without fear.

It established trust between usand the Project HOW girls

(which is key in effective

mentorship).

Prior to this event the Project HOW girlsengaged in five weeks of classroom

education in sexual assault prevention

education and feminist theory using popular

culture as our object of analysis.


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The aftermath of the Project HOW event.


7/18

A Project

HOWhigh

school

student

This event was

organized inresponse to a

campus daterape that was

dealt with quietlyby the university

administration.

The line of silent

protestorsstretched acrossthe entire campus.

Bystanders wereforced to

encounter thesilent protestors.


8/18

A Project HOW (college student) mentor.

Once per hour Anne talked loudly about the campus rape culture.


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).

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AustinPowers


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Project HOW

high school

student

organizers.


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15/18

A Project HOW

students independent

activism project.

She organized this after

the 10 week curriculum

was over.

Many of the girls stayedinvolved with the group,

continued sexual

assault activism, and

became mentors to the

next groups.

Two previous high

school aged Project

HOW students now

teach the program in

outlying rural

communities.


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Project H.O.W.

students tookthe stage at

Take Back the

Night


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Survivors shared

their stories in

various ways . . .

Dawn who is

John Holmes, the

deceased porn

kings (now

grown) teenvictim of kidnap,

rape, and forced

sex workis a

survivor living in

the community.


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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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