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The 5th annual Take Back The Night Events in April

This year’s events will begin with two film and discussion nights on April 2nd and April 16th, and culminate in a day of presentations and interactive workshops on April 29th. Below you’ll find more information about the films and events we have planned. Please consider bringing your class(es), schedules permitting, or offering extra credit to those students who attend/participate.

The detailed Schedule is as follows:

Thursday April 2nd
6pm-8pm, Campus Center Room 03-3545

Film and Discussion:
Viewing and facilitated discussion of “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes”, an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival that “…provides a riveting examination of representations of manhood in hip-hop culture [and] …pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for too often perpetuating destructive, deeply conservative styles of manhood that glamorize sexism [and] violence…”.

 

Wednesday April 29th
10:00am-6:00pm, Ryan Lounge

A day of workshops and programs addressing sexual/domestic/relationship violence against women, culminating in a community meeting. Presentations include:

  1. The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) will offer a workshop on the myths and facts about sexual assault.
  2. BARCC may also offer an interactive program related to the Clothesline Project (part of which we will be exhibiting in the Ryan Lounge all day).
  3. Beth Israel’s Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery will present on the impact of early and/or repeated sexual and relationship violence and how we can be supportive of friends and family members who are survivors.
  4. The Mentors in Violence Prevention will offer an interactive workshop on how men and women can work together to confront abusive peers and prevent gender-based violence.
  5. Love146 will present on child trafficking and exploitation.
  6. Michelle Decker, MPH, research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health who has done extensive research and writing on gender-based violence (including dating violence among adolescents and the sex-trafficking of girls and young women), will be our keynote speaker

 

We also plan to include

  1. Tabling by community agencies/resources such as Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, Casa Myrna Vasquez, Domestic Violence Ended (DOVE, Inc.), Elizabeth Stone House, Cambridge Health Alliance/Victims of Violence, Fenway Community Health Center/Violence Recovery Program, Network LaRed. “Community meeting” at the end of the day – an alternative to the traditional candlelight march and speak-out that worked out very well last year
  2. A “story wall” with submissions from students, collected anonymously via the TBTN website

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in April.