Not All Who Wonder Are Lost

sexxxisbeautiful:

Asking For It: 6%

It is estimated that only 6% of rapes and sexual assaults are actually reported, which is a frightfully low number. I have started a new project aiming to explore the reasons behind this, which started from the #ididnotreport hashtag on twitter - where survivors or rape/sexual abuse tell of their numerous reasons why they didn’t report it to anyone. This is the first series of images - numerous things that victims are told time and time again whenever they do actually report their abuse to someone - be it a friend, parent, family member, stranger or the authorities. We live in a society of rape culture where the victim is almost constantly blamed - told that they drank too much, wore too little, were out too late by themselves, flirted too much, are too “slutty”, are too “frigid”, are making a big deal out of “nothing”, the rapist was their partner so it obviously wasn’t rape because you can’t be raped by someone you’re in a relationship with. The things that victims constantly get told by the media, the people they know, rape “jokes”, songs, the authorities…they are painted on them so that they can never forget. To remind them that it is all “their fault” - if they hadn’t gone there/drank alcohol/wore that skirt/flirted etc, it wouldn’t have happened. Obviously.
 

I intend to expand on this series of photographs in the near future, and there is a lot more to come from this project, this is only the very starting point. My aim is to bring the idea of rape culture, slut-shaming, and victim-blaming to the attention of more people. To try and examine why 94% of rapes/assaults/abuse are never reported to the police, and to try and make that number decrease.

Linzi Clark

soft-as-sin:

I actually live a few blocks away from this building. That wall got painted on a few months back, tho.
(the cufflinks were epic shit) 

socialistexan:

I know people like to try to dismiss protests and boycotts of the Salvation Army especially when “they do so much good, and besides, lighten up, they are a private private charity with huge influence, you think you not donating will hurt them?”

Actually yes, yes it will, especially if a lot of “us” can take down them. I don’t agree with their bigoted and ignorant policies, they won’t get my money. All that “good” that they do doesn’t negate the transwoman they let freeze to death in the street, or the gay couples they forced to break up and be forced into their beliefs just so they can live another day.

Yeah, they are a private entity, but that doesn’t give them the right to decide who lives and who dies, especially when they have the capability.

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