April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, So Here Are 11 Tweets Showing You How Some Of Us Are Handling It
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April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, So Here Are 11 Tweets Showing You How Some Of Us Are Handling It

April consent brings May contentment.

Emma Stinnette
Apr 07, 2020
Texas A&M University
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April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, So Here Are 11 Tweets Showing You How Some Of Us Are Handling It

When I was younger and first heard about the concept of sexual assault, I thought it would happen to me when I was walking down a dark alleyway and someone would come up behind me and blitz attack me. Can that happen? Yes, of course. Does it happen more often where you get assaulted by someone that you trusted or met on a dating app? Yes to both. This website holds a few interesting statistics that if they didn't already alarm you, they should now. Now, keep in mind, these are statistics from 2015. I'm sure that the numbers have vastly increased.

  • 1 in 3 women have been a victim of either an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime
  • 321,000 American women are sexually assaulted each year
  • 75% of sexual assault incidents occur in a home
  • In 85% of sexual assaults, the offender was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident
Alright, so you might be thinking, that's vast America...how does this apply to me?
  • There were 19,045 incidents of sexual assault in Texas
  • There were 877 sexual assaults in Williamson and Travis counties
  • 13% of the victims were male
  • 15 to 19-year-old age bracket had the highest number of offenders
  • In 84.7% of the assaults, it was reported that neither drugs nor alcohol was involved
  • 73% of assaults occurred in a home
Yikes. Those are terrifying. In case anyone needs a reminder of what consent means, click HERE.

1. Realizing that sexual assault does not have to be rape. 

You are allowed to say no at any point during an encounter with someone.

2. Realizing that consent is both sexy and mandatory.  

Honestly, she's not wrong. Being asked if someone can kiss you? Wonderful.

3. Knowing that she is someone. 

We need advocates- regardless of how scary it might be to share your story.

4. Believe it or not, rapists cause sexual assault. 

I'm so sick of the question "well, what were you wearing?" a T-SHIRT, karen. A t-shirt.

5. If it felt wrong, it was wrong. 

Read that again.

6. Here's a casual rape prevention tip: carry a rape whistle so if you feel like you're about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone can come and stop you. 

If you need this demographic, save it to your phone! Set it to be your background! Whatever you have to do!

7. Let's march. 

Advocacy: we love to see it. Let's march.

8. Knowing that you can heal and there is support out there. 

Let's focus on making this world safer for men and women.

9. There's a large community of survivors rallying for you. 

And we're so proud of survivors.

10. Freedom in knowing how to teach our kiddos about consent. 

How neat is this? Consent can start from such an early age!

11. Knowing that there is help out there on the hotline. 

Don't be ashamed to need it.

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