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SPARK a Movement!
SPARK:
1. (noun) a movement to speak out, push back on the sexualization of girls, and have fun while fighting for girls' rights to healthy sexuality.
2. (verb) to rouse strong feeling or action

SPARK is an intergenerational movement fueled by girl activists & their allies. Get at us on Facebook, Twitter, & and SPARKmovement.org!

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With Circle of 6, you can connect with your friends to stay close, stay safe and prevent violence before it happens. Need help getting home? Need an interruption? Two touches lets your circle know where you are (with exact GPS coordinates!) and how they can help. Icons represent actions, so no one can tell what you’re up to—it’s quick and discreet. C6 is already on iPhone, and now it will be available for Android starting September 6th! Tell all your friends! 

With Circle of 6, you can connect with your friends to stay close, stay safe and prevent violence before it happens. Need help getting home? Need an interruption? Two touches lets your circle know where you are (with exact GPS coordinates!) and how they can help. Icons represent actions, so no one can tell what you’re up to—it’s quick and discreet.

C6 is already on iPhone, and now it will be available for Android starting September 6th! Tell all your friends! 

— 9 months ago with 241 notes
#circle of 6  #violence  #tech  #mobile 

Circle of 6, the free, award-winning anti-violence app from The Line Campaign and Isis Inc., launches today! Circle of 6 is designed to help college-aged youth prevent violence in their social circles. It has a discreet, simple design, allowing users to contact their six closest friends to come pick them up (with GPS coordinates gathered from the phone), call and interrupt a potentially dangerous situation, or give advice about healthy relationships. The app also comes loaded with two pre-programmed national hotlines and one local number users can enter on their own.

Read more & download the app here, & help us spread the word using the #C6 hashtag on Twitter!

— 1 year ago with 26 notes
#circle of 6  #violence  #anti-violence  #the line campaign  #isis  #nancy schwartzman  #app 
"Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo, as well as excerpts from interviews with actual convicted rapists originally published in the book The Rapist Files. The participants couldn’t reliably identify which statements came from magazines and which from rapists — what’s more, they rated the magazine quotes as slightly more derogatory than the statements made by men serving time for raping women. The researchers also showed both sets of quotes to a separate group of men — the men were more likely to identify with the rapists’ statements than the lad mag excerpts. The only slightly bright spot in the study: when researchers randomly (and sometimes incorrectly) labelled the quotes as coming from either rapists or magazines, the men were more likely to identify with the ones allegedly drawn from mags. At least they didn’t want to agree with rapists."

Can you tell the difference between a men’s magazine and a rapist? | Jezebel

The full story includes quotes used in the study, and they are profoundly disturbing. We couldn’t read the whole list.

— 1 year ago with 611 notes
#rape  #assault  #vaw  #violence  #rape culture 
"Women are not a special interest group and fighting for the ability to live without violence is not a pet project."
Soraya Chemaly | Violence Against Women is a Global Pandemic
— 1 year ago with 129 notes
#women  #violence  #vaw  #soraya chemaly 
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