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for the Petal Project Creation! Click here to RSVP for Take Back the Night!
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is a national campaign intended to raise awareness about sexual violence and educate individuals and communities about violence prevention. Often, however, awareness of this issue often leaves out the human impact of sexual violence. Survivors carry the trauma of violence throughout their lives, and this can come with many challenges and difficult emotions.
This year, the National Sexual Violence Research Center (NSVRC) theme is “Together We Act, United We Change,” highlighting the importance of working together to address and prevent sexual abuse, assault, and harassment. This focus is intended to enhance public understanding of sexual violence, amplify the voices of survivors, and focus on togetherness to promote safety and well-being.
For our purposes, we situate the national campaign within a Transformative Justice Framework and focus on grief as a communal practice. Often, mainstream messages given to survivors are around moving on and moving forward with little emphasis on sitting with grief. SAFE Center hopes to support survivors in embracing grief and allowing ourselves to feel and mourn what has been lost in the aftermath of trauma.
For 2025, SAFE Center chose to highlight the ebb and flow of grief many survivors feel. We hear from survivors that they grieve many things, such as the person they were before the assault, the things and people they lost in the aftermath, the trust they had in their abuser, and more. We center survivors this awareness month, and always.
We hope our campus community will join us in centering survivors and holding space for grief.
Tarot readings, henna, and crystals, oh my! 🔮 Celebrate Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) and Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) & Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Heritage Month with Healing through Community!
Connect in community with APACC, SAFE, and RamEvents for an evening filled with traditional healing practices, goodie bags, and boba! April 1 in the LSC Theatre from 4-6:30pm. Learn about traditional healing practices from APIDA & SWANA regions and continue your healing journey at home with goodie bags!
Joanne Kirves is a local artist who creates ceramics and sculptures around healing as a survivor.
Joanne will be facilitating her Petal Project where survivors and their supporters can engage in a meaningful writing exercise and create unique clay rose petals with survivor declarations through her ceramics workshop. Petal creation will take place on Tuesday, 4/8, from 9am – 4:30pm. Click on the QR code above to sign up for a spot!
Joanne will glaze and bake the petals in her personal studio to create an interactive art installment where she will be returning on Tuesday, April 22nd, from 3:00-5:00pm in LSC 234 to display the petals in our office community space. The installation piece is collaborative, so anyone is welcome to come help with the installation even if you didn’t create petals!
The petals will remain in our SAFE LSC office 234 so that visiting survivors can cut down and keep a petal as a reminder of the community supporting them or you could gift a petal to a friend in need of a supportive gesture.
All are welcome at this self-paced activity designed to foster exploration of cultural healing through the care of plants. Please join us for this drop-in event on Thursday, 4/10, from 11am – 4pm in LSC 226/28.
As you pot and nurture your plant, you’ll be invited through a series of prompts to reflect on resilience, growth, and the diverse cultural practices surrounding the healing aspects of plant life.
Crafting can help survivors – and their support people – cope with difficult emotions in the aftermath of trauma. SAFE Center will be offering three crafting opportunities throughout the week. Feel free to drop in and create!
All crafting will be throughout the day in LSC 234. Please see the poster below for details!
Animals – pets in particular -have the ability to help people regulate their emotions and find a sense of peace. Please join SAFE Center and Human-Animal Bond in Colorado (HABIC) to love on some furry friends!
Pups will be in LSC 234 from 11am – 12pm on Monday, 4/28.
This event will take place on Wednesday, 4/30, from 6 – 7:30pm in LSC Grand Ballrooms C&D.
Take Back the Night (TBTN) is a global movement to stand against sexual violence and support survivors. This event is typically a march and keynote, and SAFE Center has moved to hosting a reverent space instead.
This years theme ‘Portal of Possibility’ is situated within the Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2025 theme contending with the ebbs and flows of grief, where we see the practice of truly feeling our grief— deeply, safely, and on our own terms, as a portal of possibility to new ways of living, dreaming, and thriving as survivors.
“Tending grief can support us to feel more choice and support us to resolve conflicts, build trust, and engage in somatic transformation as a group—changing ways of being that have become automatic. These are all factors that create supportive conditions for relationships as well as sustained movement work.”
― Camille Sapara Barton, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
Please join us in accessing this portal as we hold and move with grief as a community, followed by the celebration of the new possibilities that come with graduating as we recognize survivors and allies who are graduating Spring 2025.