JOIN TODAY'S #HERDREAMDEFERRED EVENT UNSPEAKABLE TRUTH THE REALITY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AT HBCUs
2:00 EST - THURSDAY MARCH 31
DID YOU KNOW?
Approximately 40 percent of Black women report coercive contact of a sexual nature by age 18.
The lifetime rate of rape / attempted rape for Black women is 18.8 percent.
9.7 percent of women-identified HBCU undergraduates report experiencing sexual assault since entering college. The rate is 13.7 percent at non-HBCUs.
From a 2008 study of undergraduate women at 4 HBCUs, 69.2 percent of forced sexual assault victims disclosed the incident to “someone close,” while only 9.9% reported the incident to law enforcement.
The same 2008 study revealed that 75.6 percent of all victims of incapacitated sexual assault had been drinking prior to the incident, as were 23.1 percent of all victims of forced sexual assault.
While studies have shown that incidents of sexual assaults on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are lower than they are on the Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), the rates we see at HBCUs are alarming and possibly even more underreported than those at PWIs. Uniquely intersectional dynamics at HBCU campuses can place additional barriers on students not to come forward about their assaults. Addressing the societal and cultural differences that silence women at HBCUs is a matter of grave importance.
Join us as we break the silence surrounding the reality that Black women are experiencing campus sexual assault. Speakers include Jamilah Lemieux, Farah Tanis, Synclaire Butler, and Charnessa Ridley, who will tackle these questions and more: How can we combat the media erasure of campus sexual assault at HBCUs? How can we foster dialogue about gender-based violence in these spaces while avoiding racist tropes criminalizing Black youth? How can we expand widely accepted definitions of who can be a victim of sexual assault to include Black women?
Join the conversation on social media using the hashtags #SayHerName and #HerDreamDeferred!
A Twitter chat will be held at 3:30 EST, directly following the panel discussion.
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