Both on here and on the facebook page/group. If you’re interested please contact me through the ask box (preferably not on anon) or reply to this post. GrrrlVirus (NZ) is great, but we need more people to actively update the pages, or at least to contribute in some way. By being an admin you’d be doing me a huge favour, so please think about it. GrrrlVirus NZ is dying out, and I don’t think it would be if we had more cooperation, exposure.etc. Every 2 hours new charges are filed with NZ police regarding individual sexual assault crimes. This is not okay. This is one statistic.
End rape culture / Smash the patriarchy / GrrrlVirus New Zealand.
Statistics from the NZ Police website regarding sexual assault offences.
Note the increase in reported sexual assault cases from 2008-2011, and the resolution rates for each year. This year, only 58% of sexual assault cases ended in resolution. Less ended in conviction. And these are only the reported cases - can you imagine how many people didn’t report their assaults? Maybe people are feeling more confident in filing reports, that could be a plus, or is the number of sexual-oriented assaults occurring in NZ generally increasing?
As part of its 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Amnesty International is proud to be part of the national White Ribbon Day collective. White RIbbons are a symbol of opposing violence against women.
For more information or to register the hours that you can help please contact Sabine.
When: Saturday 26 November- 11am to 6pm
Where: New World Supermarket, Cambridge road. Hillcrest, Hamilton
Contact: Sabine: phone- 07-8550929 email- spahl@xtra.co.nz
8 page mini-zine
Get it HereI just finished printing and reading this little mini-zine on girl love. What Happened to Sisterhood is a free one page zine available at Zine Library that gives a short lesson on how our patriarchal society teaches girls to be jealous of and compete against each other instead of banding together and supporting one another. It covers slut shaming, body policing, name calling and internalized oppression.
There is lots of great info packed into a tiny one page zine. These would be great to print out, carry around and hand out whenever the need arises. Or to just leave around various places such as libraries, magazine racks, makeup counters, etc.
