Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

[Susan Marine <>]

Greetings,

Janine Cavicchia inquired about Sex Signals. Since I am currently on a
sex signals induced high, I thought I'd reply. Gail and Christian visited
Harvard Monday and did three amazing back to back performances. They are
incredibly high energy, talented, and committed actors and educators and
their delivery of important messages about sexual communication, respect
for boundaries, and the role of male/female socialization in perpetuating
sexual violence is subtle and dead-on relatable to college students. They
received three standing ovations from our students-- and that *just
doesn't happen* very often at Harvard! students came up to me and the
performers after the shows and raved about them. I have seen many, many
incarnations of what I call 'traveling rape education roadshows' and I
think they do it best.

Having worked with Gail and Christian twice now, and found them both to
be exceptionally professional, savvy, and accommodating in every way, I
cannot imagine why there might have been problems at any other school--
then again, I am a rape educator, not a student activities director, so I
have very different needs and expectations of the show. I have found them
and their entire team to be amazingly easy to work with.

To read the student newspaper coverage of the show, go to:
http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article348696.html

to read an article from earlier in the year which more
explicitly addresses the *content* of the show, go to:
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/03.13/13-sexsignals.html

Clearly, I cannot recommend them highly enouh, but if you have
additional questions or concerns feel free to call or email me

Thanks!

Susan Marine 
Director 
Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response 
Harvard University 
874 Holyoke Center 
1350 Mass. avenue 
Cambridge MA 02138 
617 384-9081