2. Slut Walk Organizing Committee (SWOC)
Danielle Paradis Devonne Kendrick Franki Harrogate Patrick McIlveen Sheri De Vries
3. SLUT WALK?
slut? That isn’t a very nice thing to say…..
It sure isn’t! So maybe society should stop using that word to justify the sexual assault of women
4. But why is this walk called Slut Walk?
On January 24, 2011 a Canadian Police Officer named Michael Sanguinetti paid a visit
to Osgoode Law School at York University.
He began his talk by saying, “you know, I think we’re beating around the bush
here…women should avoid dressing like slutsin order not to be victimized…
5. We’re lifting the curtain on victim blaming
Because, as Audrey Lorde said, “your silence will not protect you”.
6. Winnipeg, Edmonton and Halifax record highest police-reported rates of sexual offences
In 2011, women were 11% more likely than men to be the victim of police-reported
sexual assault by an intimate partner.
54% of Aboriginal women reported severe forms of family violence, such as being
beaten, being choked, having had a gun or knife used against them, or being sexually
assaulted, versus 37% of non-Aboriginal women
7. Now, we know people don’t like the word slut. We don’t like it either to tell you the truth.
But the word keeps getting used to justify violence against rape survivors.
8. How?
“She went out drinking, what did she expect?”
“She was flirting”
“Why was she dressed like that if she didn’t want to have sex?”
9. So…instead of telling us that you don’t like the word SLUT…
Remember that we don’t like used against women either and let’s tell those who are
using the word slut against women every single day that we won’t stand for their victim-
blaming any longer.
Join us on May 31 2014 in the annual walk to end victim blaming.
