April is Sexaul Assault Awareness Month

[eumelia]

I'm a regular reader of comics and I'm a regular reader of Girl Wonder - The feminist activist group out there fighting for the way women are depicted in comic books (mainstream/manga/and others) and to raise awareness about women in the comic book industry.

The ribbon is a link to Girl Wonder's page about Sexual Assault Awareness Month, specifically about the way it is depicted in comic books.
Rachel Edidin's blog Insideout will be exploring the issue throughout the month.
This is "Insideout"'s LJ feed gw_insideout.

However, it is known that sexual assault and rape are not fiction and that far too many people are victims to this crime, not to mention domestic violence, incest, sexual harassments and many other crimes that are a way for someone to exert control in the most harmful, painful and traumatizing way possible over another human being,
The websites dealing with rape and sexual assault found on Girl Wonder are American centric, so I've decided to put here some websites which are specific to Israel:

Macom - Self Help for victims of Sexual assault - מקום - עזרה עצמית לנפגעי תקיפה מינית

The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel - איגוד מרכזי הסיוע לנפגעות ונפגעי תקיפה מינית בישראל

L.O. Combat Violence Against Women - ל.א. - לחימה באלימות כלפי נשים

Mavoi Satum - Opening Up the Dead End for the Aguna - מבוי סתום - הארגון למען נשים עגונות ומסורבות גט

Israeli Women's Lobby - שדולת הנשים בישראל

There are numerous websites, with different statistics, but the main thing is to be aware and to raise awareness against this endemic social disease with doesn't discriminate according to race, ethnicity, religion or nationality and what is often skewed, gender.

This post will appear on the top for the month of April and then appear in the links section of my sidebar.

Comments

[that-redhead.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting out this reminder! I may do a similar reminder in my journal, but with links for help in the Buffalo, NY area and around the U.S.

My roller derby team is doing a fund raiser for Crisis Services, a group that helps out victims of rape, domestic violence, and elderly abuse. I can't wait to help this program out!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Happy to hear that!

The broader this goes over the web the better!

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

Why is incest included with rape, domestic violence, and sexual harrassment?

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Because most times incest is usually a family member forcing sexual relations on another.

[aesiron.livejournal.com]

Ah. I was unaware. Despite being Southern, it's not something I've given much thought to.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Well lucky it's Sexual Assault Awareness Month :)

You should pass it along, make sure people know about it and educate themselves, because it goes beyond "women's issues", it's a societal disease.

[rachel-edidin.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the plug, and for posting those links. I tried to get a fairly comprehensive list up on Girl-Wonder's sexual assault info and resource page (http://www.girl-wonder.org/saam.html), but I'm familiar with very few international resources.

It's really, really good to see other people jumping onto SAAM--I'm amazed and excited at how quickly it's snowballed in the blog community.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for responding, I love your blog :)

And the more awareness is raised on the issue the better, the more people are educated the better people will be at preventing this sort of thing.

I think the Internet is useful at making all these issues global and breaking the parochial view that so many people have when it comes to social issues.