S.A.F.E., Inc.  takes part in “Jeans for Justice” in several ways:

Our Fundraiser

  • We encourage people to wear jeans to work on Friday April 29th & make a donation to S.A.F.E. Inc.
  • Get your workplace involved! We provide you with posters, Sexual Assault Awareness Month pins and information to host your own “Jeans for Justice” event.
  • Please register online www.safeshelter.net/justice/ or call (662) 841-2273

Mobile Art Exhibits

  • View the “Jeans for Justice” art exhibit at Tupelo’s Link Centre in the month of April. Jeans painted with messages about violence have been created by residents of northeast Mississippi from a wide variety of backgrounds and age groups in conjunction with our annual “Jeans for Justice” fund-raiser. The jeans reflect the individual artists’ feelings about violence in our community. Some jeans honor victims of violent crime, others state facts and statistics, and others send a message of hope.

  • Come and paint with the Tupelo Women’s Club “Jeans for Justice” Paint Party. Sunday, April 10th from 2PM until 4 PM at the Link Centre in Tupelo. You can create your own pair of jeans to help send a message about violence. Jeans will become a part of a traveling exhibition that touches the lives of many people in northeast Mississippi.

 

  • Come and paint at the “Jeans for Justice” Paint Party hosted by the Daily Corinthian Newspaper in Corinth, Mississippi 10AM-2 PM Saturday April 16th. You can create your own pair of jeans to help send a message about violence. Jeans will become a part of a traveling exhibition that touches the lives of many people in northeast Mississippi.

 

Sexual Assault Awareness Films

This year we are trying something new. We are screening two films about sexual violence in the Black Box Theater at the Link Centre in Tupelo.  This event will be held on Tuesday, April 12 and will begin at 6:30 PM. There is no cost for this event.

We will show these films as well as a short film about the S.A.F.E., Inc. “Jeans for Justice” Exhibit.

“Asking for it: The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent”

The line between sexual consent and sexual coercion is not always as clear as it seems — and according to Harry Brod, this is exactly why we should approach our sexual interactions with great care. Brod, a professor of philosophy and leader in the pro-feminist men’s movement, offers a unique take on the problem of sexual assault, one that complicates the issue even as it clarifies the bottom-line principle that consent must always be explicitly granted, never simply assumed. In a nonthreatening, non-hectoring discussion that ranges from the meanings of “yes” and “no” to the indeterminacy of silence to the way alcohol affects our ethical responsibilities, Brod challenges young people to envision a model of sexual interaction that is most erotic precisely when it is most thoughtful and empathetic.

“Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol”

Spin the Bottle offers an indispensable critique of the role that contemporary popular culture plays in glamorizing excessive drinking and high-risk behaviors. Award-winning media critics Jackson Katz and Jean Kilbourne contrast these distorted representations with the often disturbing and dangerous ways that alcohol consumption affects the lives of real young men and women. Illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Katz and Kilbourne decode the power and influence these seductive media images have in shaping gender identity, which is linked to the use of alcohol.

 

Friday, April 29th 2011 is S.A.F.E. Inc.

”Jeans for Justice” Day!

“Jeans for Justice,” in its fourth year in this area allows businesses make donations to our local rape crisis center in exchange for allowing their staff to wear jeans to work on Friday, April 29, 2011. Each participating business receives a poster to display in their office which will provoke discussion and education around the issue of sexual assault. The purpose of the poster is to provide a fixture to spark discussion for employees “around the water cooler” so to speak on the issues of sexual assault and the judicial system.

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A short history of  “Jeans for Justice”

 

In 1999, a judge in Italy overturned the 1998 rape conviction of a 45 year-old driving instructor who had been convicted of raping his 18-year-old student. A lower court had sentenced the defendant to 2 years and eight months in prison but the appeals court sent the case back for retrial and a higher court overturned the ruling on the basis of what the victim was wearing. The higher court ruled that it is impossible to take off tight pants such as jeans “without the cooperation of the person wearing them”, and said it was impossible if the victim is struggling. The court also doubted the testimony of the victim because she waited several hours to tell her parents she had been attacked.

Following the ruling, a group of female Italian lawmakers wore jeans to parliament. This action prompted women all over Italy to join in a “skirt strike” and wear jeans. Female TV personalities known for chic dress began to don only denim. A housewives’ federation offered a prize to any designer who could come up with “easy off jeans” and planned a jean march to the justice ministry. Union Official Stefania Sidoli said, “We thank the court for having enriched women’s wardrobes with a new garment. To the business suit and the little black dress, we can now add the anti-rape outfit: a comfortable and resistant pair of jeans.”

 
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