Denim Day Join us on April 25, 2012 In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month each April,  SafePlace asks businesses, organizations and individuals to wear Denim in support of sexual assault survivors and to raise awareness about sexual assault misconceptions. Make a statement.  Wear denim.Ask your colleagues, friends, family and staff to do the same.Yes, I/we want to participate in Denim Day! In 2011, nearly 6,000 people in Austin and across the state participated.  SafePlace provided businesses and organizations  posters, stickers and other materials about sexual assault and SafePlace programs.   Why Denim? In 1998, a teenage girl in Italy was raped by her driving instructor. The man was convicted, but his case went to the Supreme Court of Appeals in Rome. The court overturned the conviction, arguing that because the girl wore very tight jeans she must have had to help remove them, thereby giving consent to have sex. The case made international headlines, and the young woman’s jeans became a symbol of awareness that what someone wears is never an excuse for rape.

Denim Day

Join us on April 25, 2012

In observance of Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month each April,  SafePlace asks businesses, organizations and individuals to wear Denim in support of sexual assault survivors and to raise awareness about sexual assault misconceptions.

Make a statement.  Wear denim.
Ask your colleagues, friends, family and staff to do the same.
Yes, I/we want to participate in Denim Day!


In 2011, nearly 6,000 people in Austin and across the state participated.  SafePlace provided businesses and organizations  posters, stickers and other materials about sexual assault and SafePlace programs.  

Why Denim?

In 1998, a teenage girl in Italy was raped by her driving instructor. The man was convicted, but his case went to the Supreme Court of Appeals in Rome. The court overturned the conviction, arguing that because the girl wore very tight jeans she must have had to help remove them, thereby giving consent to have sex.

The case made international headlines, and the young woman’s jeans became a symbol of awareness that what someone wears is never an excuse for rape.

Source: safeplace.org
  1. tolivelovely reblogged this from wmt-w-analicia
  2. wmt-w-analicia posted this