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April 2021 marks twenty years of Sexual Assault Awareness Month — a campaign that endures as a way to shine a light on the issues of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse and focus on solutions to ending these types of violence.
April also marks one year of living with and identifying the impact of the pandemic on the issue of sexual violence. In the past year, online platforms have been crucial in helping us stay connected, however, the amount of abuse
that occurs over these platforms has also increased, as expanded use of online tools have created new opportunities for abuse to occur.
That’s why this year’s
SAAM We Can Build Safe Online Spaces campaign is all about bringing attention to online harassment and abuse and providing solutions on how we can prevent it. While we’re still building the future of how we work, date, and connect we can start with a foundation
that supports respect, equality, and safety.
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Throughout April,
the We Can Build campaign will educate on topics like how we can practice digital consent and communicate boundaries, ways we can create safe online communities and keep kids safe online, and how we can support survivors by creating trauma-informed online
spaces. There are lots of ways you can get involved, like hosting an online event, participating in the #30DaysofSAAM Instagram Challenge, or downloading a teal awareness ribbon Zoom background.
For the past nineteen years, advocates have reached out to their communities during SAAM to show visible support for survivors and to educate community members on skills that can prevent sexual violence. Thanks in part to awareness-building
efforts like this, the public understanding of this issue has become more developed and progressed, making our world a little safer today. On this twentieth anniversary of SAAM, we’re laying the groundwork for safe spaces of the future — both on and off-line,
we hope you’ll join us.
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