Blah! I feel like such a shitty feminist right now. Not only have I not been promoting that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but I totally forgot it was Sexual Assault Awareness Month! One may ask, “How can I help stop sexual assaults?” or “Why do we need an awareness month?” Every 2 minutes, someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. The Department of Justice estimates that one in five women will be sexually assaulted during their college years.This blog is called Scandalous Sundays and these numbers are pretty fucking scandalous to me. So how can you help? It’s quite simple:

• Don’t sexual assault anyone! DUH!!!
• Don’t victim blame. I don’t care if the person is a $2 prostitute, cracked out, running through an alley naked, no one deserves to be violated and it’s never the victims fault.
• Get involved. Campuses across the nation holding “Take Back the Night” marches to acknowledge Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
• Be supportive of victims. Get them in touch with different organizations that help survivors and encourage them to report their assaulters.

This may be last minute considering April is almost over, but it’s better late than never.

(Source: rainn.org)