Thursday, September 29, 2016

Lauren Kelleher Video Diary

1.  The way we can raise awareness for sexual assault it to destigmatize the victims of rape and sexual violence. The stigmatization that exists is helping the attackers and discouraging the victims. Survivors feel that they are not able to come forward because of legitimate reasons that unfortunately, are probably going to become reality. Being called a liar, a slut and an attention hog are probably all going to happen to survivors that come forward. The accused assailant sometimes are not guilty this is true, but all you have to do is look at the numbers to see that someone lying about sexual assault is overshadowed by the true accounts. Lady GaGa’s “Til it Happens to You” music video has been viewed over 35 million times that is comprised of people who don’t know about rape and people who have been raped and everything in the middle, this video is a great step towards making sexual assault real to many people. And making sexual violence a real thing to people who don’t want to see it will bring awareness to the cause.

2. A. SurvJustice was founded by Laura L. Dunn in 2013 after she was sexually assaulted by two crewmates and struggled and eventually triumphed to get justice for herself.
     B. SurvJustice’s key objectives are in a wordle on their webpage; justice, innovation, expertise, uncompromised, and survivor focused.              
     C. The organization receives its funding from donations which are split up into angle donors, and warrior donor. The angle donors go to fighting for justice for a specific survivor. Warrior donor’s money goes to going up against big companies or institutions.   
     D. SurvJustice and unparticular Lauren Dunn is portrayed in the media as being a lawyer, advocate and well informed fighter for justice for sexual assault victims, saying “was my personal moment of justice as a survivor, that what happened to me would never happen to anyone else.”                                      

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