October is Sexual Violence Awareness Month.
Over 30 victim-survivors participated in photographic and art workshops across Queensland, from Logan to Townsville, producing photographs and art reflecting the Sexual Violence Awareness Month main theme: Survivor Voices with sub-themes including “Hear Us Rise Together”, “I Refuse To Be Silent” and “Women, Find Your Voice!” amongst many others.
This original work captures the strength, fortitude, dignity and hope for change of victim-survivors and evidences the importance of them having a voice that shapes and improves the way our community responds to sexual violence.
QSAN thanks the Queensland Government for supporting these activities and SVAM 2024.
In particular, QSAN would like to thank the many victim survivors of sexual violence who participated in the workshops so positively and helped produce this amazing art!
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October is Sexual Violence Awareness Month.
Over 30 victim-survivors participated in photographic and art workshops across Queensland, from Logan to Townsville, producing photographs and art reflecting the Sexual Violence Awareness Month main theme: Survivor Voices with sub-themes including “Hear Us Rise Together”, “I Refuse To Be Silent” and “Women, Find Your Voice!” amongst many others.
This original work captures the strength, fortitude, dignity and hope for change of victim-survivors and evidences the importance of them having a voice that shapes and improves the way our community responds to sexual violence.
If you wish to talk to someone about issues of sexual violence, please contact the national sexual violence helpline 1800 Respect 1800 737 732 (24/7) or contact a QSAN service at https://qsan.org.au/services/
In an emergency phone the police on Triple Zero (000).
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This project was funded by the Queensland Government.
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Week One
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Alternative text: Fingers point to a sign that says ‘Who is responsible for the rape? The Rapist.’
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Alternative text: A person with their back to you holds a sign over their shoulders that says ‘No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.’
Week Two
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Alternative text: A collage of images on an ochre painted background with a white handprint. Words include ‘kindness’, ‘unsilent voices’, ‘blak women lead’.
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Alternative text: A hand holds up a megaphone in front of a black sign with the words ‘Women, find your Voice!’.
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Alternative text: A collage of images of leaves, butterflies, mushrooms and fruit along with people holding signs that say ‘responsibility and caring’, ‘boundary’, ‘spirit’ and ‘respecting each other’.
Week Three
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Alternative text: A sign in black letters surrounded by a red wavy line, with the words ‘Consent is not assumed’.
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Alternative text: A sign which says ‘no-one asked what the rapist wore’ with a painting of a pair of pants.
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Alternative text: A hexagon decorated with tiny coloured beads with the word ‘Survivor’.
Week Four
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Alternative text: A collage of images including leaves and words on a black background. Words include ‘You have what it takes’, ‘unsilent voices’, ‘you are enough’, ‘disability survivor advocate’.
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Alternative text: A hexagon with the words ‘Together we rise’ around an image of 7 fists in different colours and ‘rise above all discrimination’ and ‘raise against all violence’.
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Alternative text: A collage of images of birds and plants over a yellow background, with people holding up signs that say ‘love’, ‘gentleness’, ‘passion’.
Week Five
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Alternative text: Hands holding up a sign next to a traffic light on red. The words on the sign say ‘Stop hurting women’.