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Denim Day Detroit Returns to End Rape Kit Backlog

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Detroit’s Hip Hop Community joins Enough SAID to End Sexual Assault with 2nd Annual Denim Day Detroit
For a second year in a row, Inspirational hip hop artist, MAHOGANY JONES is bringing Denim Day to Detroit in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month! This year’s event introduces a partnership with Enough SAID (Sexual Assault In Detroit) to again raise donations to help fund the processing, investigation and prosecution of Detroit’s +30 year rape kit backlog.

Last year’s free event successfully raised enough money to process one rape kit. This year’s goal is to raise at least $2,000, which thanks to the new labs processing the kits, is now enough to process 4 rape kits.

“Testing just one kit can solve and prevent multiple assaults,” Wayne Co. Asst. Prosecuting Attorney, Mary DuFour Marrow expressed in her email of thanks after attending last year’s event. “Please know we appreciate every penny!”

Denim Day is a global movement to end victim blaming and correct misconceptions surrounding sexual assault. It takes place the last Wednesday in April, sparked by a ruling of the Italian Supreme Court which overturned a rape conviction because they felt a teenage victim must have helped her rapist remove her tight jeans, thereby implying consent.

DENIM DAY DETROIT will again be free, however, we are asking supporters for donations of $5 of more, and inviting businesses to participate by wearing jeans and making a donation.

Realizing sexual assault is a heavy topic, DENIM DAY DETROIT will feature Music, Poetry, Talk Show – style Discussions, Self Defense, a Denim Photo Shoot and interactive activities designed to make people feel empowered and enthused about their involvement in ending sexual assault in Detroit. The after-work event will again be hosted by singer and activist, Consuela Lopez of BombaRica Cultural and Performing Arts.

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Mahogany Jones is the force behind a CD compilation entitled PURE, Vol. 1 which celebrates women and addresses issues including sexual assault. The CD spawned A PURE Movement as a form of Hip hop activism focused on empowering women.

FOR MOR INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Jasmine Stallworth, Event Organizer
313 – 585 – 3322
APUREMovement@gmail.com
www.APUREMovement.com

Contact
Get Jayne Consulting, LLC
***@getjayne.com
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Next Foundation meeting October 12th 2pm

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Our next Foundation of Women in Hip Hop meeting will be held on Sunday October 12th 2pm-4pm @ Wholefoods in Midtown Detroit 115 Mack Avenue 48201.

Question from the book:
How do the strategies of organizing at the local level, the use of popular culture to mobilize others, and popular understandings of the word “activism” combine to affect the predominant understandings of youth, social movements, and activism?

 

Please email your upcoming news, releases, and events to: thefoundationofwomeninhiphop@gmail.com
We’d like to put them in our calendar and of course highlight and promote the wonderful work you’re doing.

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SASHA Center + Marygrove College collaborate to discuss Intimate Partner Violence!

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On Monday, October 27, 2014 from 6-8pm join us at Marygrove College in the Main Dining Hall of the Madame Cadillac Building to hear a panel of men advocates discuss intimate partner violence.

Organizations that would like to have a free display table call 313-927-1484. Space is limited and we give priority to Domestic Violence and/or Sexual Assault agencies, no vending allowed, information only tables are available.

It is imperative that we provide opportunities for community members, students, staff, faculty and local organizations to get together and discuss intimate partner violence.

We use Domestic Violence Awareness Month to become aware of the impact of relationship violence within our communities. We also know that non-battering men can be very instrumental in stopping intimate partner violence if given the opportunity to share their stories and expertise in being non-violent in their own relationships and passing on their wisdom to other men.

Therefore, Marygrove College is hosting our annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month event for students, faculty, staff and the community to raise awareness, acknowledge survivors/victims of sexual assault/intimate violence and suggest solutions to the problem.

Our goal is to dispel myths and provide a forum with honest dialogue among ourselves-with men leading the way!
Special guests have been invited!!!

The Marygrove College Social Work Department, The Women’s Center, and SASHA Center will host a reflective evening to educate, inspire and provide support to survivors/victims/all persons affected by sexual assault and domestic violence.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND.

On our campus there will be Purple Ribbon Campaign, Domestic Violence Dinner Table Display and The Clothesline Project -honoring those lives that have been impacted by Domestic Violence for the entire month of October.

This is a coordinated activity for the purpose of engaging our students and community and supporting those who may be currently in a violent relationship or recovering from one.

Contact:
Kalimah Johnson: Info@sashacenter.org

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Pillow Fight Oct 17 + 18

For this year’s PURE Purple event, we’re doing something completely different.

On Friday, October 17th, Mahogany’s PURE Movement is hosting a PURE Purple Soiree Masked Party at Drive Table Tennis Social Club. It’s more party then program and is really just a fundraiser for Handbags for Hope, a local nonprofit that serves domestic violence shelters around the Metro area.

On Saturday, PURE Movement and P.O.S.itive Native Initiative are hosting a Public Pillow Fight. The Pillow Fight is going to have more program-like features and we see The Foundation as one of the presenting organizations with POSitive Native and PURE Movement.

AND we’re looking for sponsors for everything. There’s 15% commission for anyone who sells a sponsorship package.

We’re asking pillow fight attendees to donate to the YWCA Interim House, the only domestic violence shelter in the city. At both events we’re asking people to donate used cell phones for Verizon Wireless HopeLine which provides free, prepaid cell phones for victims fleeing domestic violence. Both events are considered official cell phone drive events.

JAYNE MARIE SMITH
EDITOR, PURE Magazine
Visit: www.APureMovement.com
Read: http://issuu.com/mahoganyjones/stacks/
Twitter: @APureMovement
Twitter: @GetJayne
Direct: (248) 919-8GET(438)
Cell: 248-636-6450
Skype: Jayne.Marie.Smith
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A Confidential Peer-Support Group Series

Soar_Flyer_HIPHOP_2014This focus of this group is to provide a space for women to come together and talk about their portrayal in hip hop.

September 10th-thru-October 29th

Occurring Dates:

Wednesday’s

TIME: 6pm-8pm

Registration Deadline Date: MONDAY, September 8, 2014

Held at: Marygrove College- 8425 West McNichols Rd., Detroit, MI 48221

~Women must call and register before the start date~

Call 1-888-865-7055 for more information & to register today!

Pre-registration required!

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Next Foundation meeting Sept 28th 2pm

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Our next Foundation of Women in Hip Hop meeting will be held on Sunday September 28th 2pm-4pm @ Wholefoods in Midtown Detroit 115 Mack Avenue 48201.

Please email your upcoming news, releases, and events to: thefoundationofwomeninhiphop@gmail.com
We’d like to put them in our calendar and of course highlight and promote the wonderful work you’re doing.