W&GS Event

 I recently visited the "What Was I Wearing" event in Lib-Jackson, along with many others who have previously shared their thoughts and experiences with the event. I had previously seen events like these specifically through TikTok, and I've always considered them to be both a solemn yet empowering display. Events like these truly help break through the stigma that what a woman is wearing effects rather or not she is raped or not and help to begin breaking these misogynistic stereotypes. It truly highlights how it doesn't matter your age, what you look like, what you were wearing, what you were doing, all that truly matters is that it happened. These acts are cruel displays of trust being broken and women being taken complete advantage of and it is insane that we have dumbed such a tragic event down to simply being about what the effected person was wearing. I'm glad that we had an event like this present and that individuals, rather they paid attention or not were able to see a glance of the harsh truth. I hope that events like these help us as a society break away from that victim-blaming stigma and work towards instead stopping these individuals from committing heinous acts, rather than worrying about what the victim was wearing and how that could be related.