Signature events
Wear Purple Day
Taking place every October, Wear Purple Day is a national day of awareness focusing on domestic and relationship violence prevention and survivor support. ASU encourages staff, faculty and students to wear purple and band together against domestic violence. ASU community members can show their support by wearing a large sticker with a message of support to victims, wearing purple on this day, updating their social media accounts with Wear Purple Day profile pictures and more. On Wear Purple Day, the ASU Sexual and Relationship Violence Program provides stickers and education at all four ASU locations. Visit Upcoming Events for more information and to view sticker pick-up dates and locations.
The Clothesline Project
The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with graphic messages and illustrations that have been designed by survivors of, and individuals impacted by domestic and relationship violence. The purpose of the project is to increase awareness, destabilize stereotypes about victims, celebrate a person’s strength to survive, and provide another avenue to courageously break the silence that often surrounds these experiences.
Boundaries and Beyond
Exploring and encouraging healthy behavior in relationships is a key strategy to preventing relationship violence and harm. Boundaries and Beyond is a passive educational event that takes place every October, during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Boundaries and Beyond seeks to empower all individuals to self-reflect and implement any relational boundaries that are important for their wellness and health. This event strives to raise awareness around the prevalence and root causes of relationship violence and provides education on the skills to cultivate healthy relationships.
The Red Flag Campaign
The Red Flag Campaign uses a bystander intervention strategy to address and prevent sexual assault, dating violence and stalking on college campuses. The campaign encourages friends and other campus community members to say something when they see warning signs or red flags, for sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking in a friend’s relationship. The campaign is a project of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, and was created by college students, college personnel and community victim advocates. ASU implements the Red Flag Campaign every February.
Consent and Beyond
Asking for consent is necessary to end sexual assault, but in order to change the culture of violence we must address root causes of violence. Consent and Beyond is a passive educational event where student organizations and departments gather together to raise awareness about sexual assault and relationship violence by providing education about consent and addressing root causes of violence such as misogyny, oppression and power.
Denim Day
National Denim Day aims to raise awareness about sexual violence, consent and healthy relationships. The event began after outrage over an Italian Supreme Court decision that wrongly freed someone who had committed rape because his victim wore tight jeans, arguing that because her jeans were tight she had to have removed them herself, making the act consensual. Every April, students, faculty and staff are invited to participate by wearing jeans and official ASU Denim Day stickers, which show support for victims and survivors of sexual violence.