Slutwalk September 2012 London

SLUTWALK SEPTEMBER 2012 - LONDON

"I am walking because I was raped. I am walking because two thirds of people who answered a survey would say I am to blame for my rape. The only person to blame is the man who raped me.I am so angry with the lack of justice, the hundreds and thousands of rapists who walk away. I am angry because the survivors of rape are victimised again and again. If we report it (I did) we are forced to re-live it in horrendous detail several times over. We feel violated again when the CPS decides not to prosecute after all and he simply walks away. We are not victims. We were victims, for a moment in time. Now, we are survivors."

~Emily Jacob~

This may seem an odd thing to put on a warm fuzzy blog - but this makes my heart warm and fuzzy because there is strength and empowerment and love in this movement.  Slutwalk is the radical notion that nobody deserves to be raped and formed following a Toronto policeman telling a group of law students that in order to avoid being raped ‘women should avoid dressing like sluts'.  Women and men across the globe have marched since demanding that governments stop cutting funding to domestic violence and rape crisis centres and refuges, that society learns to blame the rapist not the victim and that rape is never never ok or justified.

This movement is incredibly empowering and entirely necessary.  I was unwell last year and unable to make it to London Slutwalk but the date is out for this year and so I competely unashamedly plugging it here - whatever your age, gender, background- it doesn't matter - if you believe that a women's wardrobe has more right to give consent than her mouth - then get yourself there.

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Below are some videos to explain more taken from Slutwalk 2011 

Slutwalk because... 

London Slutwalk 2011