April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Each week this April, we are focusing on a different theme:
Keep an eye out all month for related blog posts, social media posts at @jhuwellbeing, well-being carts at Homewood and East Baltimore, and the Consent Campaign at Spring Fair.
Check out our planned events and workshops below.
All events and workshops are free, but please RSVP using the links below, where applicable, with your Hopkins email so we can send you the meeting info.
If you have general questions or need disability accommodations, please email Alyse Campbell at [email protected].
Event: Paint Splatter Tent
Date: 4/11/24
Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm
Location: Grassy circle outside O’Connor Center, Homewood Campus
Details: Throw some paint around. We’ll be setting up a tent outside of the Rec center for students to throw paint, work through stress and frustration, and feel agency in their bodies. Please register for a time slot at the link below.
Registration: https://slotted.co/40zj9zwh
Event: Healing Honestly Book Club (Homewood)
Date: 4/16/24
Time: 6:00-7:00pm
Location: O’Connor Recreation Center, Meeting Room A
Details: Join us for a discussion of Healing Honestly: The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame by Alisa Zipursky. This guide for survivors, written by a survivor, helps to break through the negative self-talk and debunk the myths that impact victims. With an approachable style that makes heavy topics not so damn scary, this book shows how trauma survivors can learn to identify these untrue stories that often come up in dating, in friendships, in families, at work, and more. Readers will discover strategies so that they can hear their own wisdom and inner truth more clearly. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided. Please use the registration link to get your FREE copy of the book.
Registration: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=OPSkn-axO0eAP4b4rt8N7GVvBfTrmWhNhI_Y5NqONTtUQ1k4TFdNTjBTRTdYU1VDRzFPUUYxSFdCNi4u
Event: Zine Making
Date: 4/17/24
Time: 7:00-8:00pm
Location: O’Connor Recreation Center, Meeting Room A
Details: Flex your creativity and empower your communities with a zine-making workshop. We are gathering with the Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) to make zines focused on gender-based violence prevention for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (but you can make a zine about anything). Dinner from Ekiben will be provided!
Registration: https://cglink.me/2dh/r1951571
Event: Healing Honestly Book Club (East Baltimore)
Date: 4/18/24
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: School of Nursing, N140
Details: Join us for a discussion of Healing Honestly: The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame by Alisa Zipursky. This guide for survivors, written by a survivor, helps to break through the negative self-talk and debunk the myths that impact victims. With an approachable style that makes heavy topics not so damn scary, this book shows how trauma survivors can learn to identify these untrue stories that often come up in dating, in friendships, in families, at work, and more. Readers will discover strategies so that they can hear their own wisdom and inner truth more clearly. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided. Please use the registration link to get your FREE copy of the book.
Registration: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=OPSkn-axO0eAP4b4rt8N7GVvBfTrmWhNhI_Y5NqONTtUQ1k4TFdNTjBTRTdYU1VDRzFPUUYxSFdCNi4u
Event: Hon’s Honey Speaker
Date: 4/22/24
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: School of Nursing, Carpenter Room A (N115)
Details: Join us for lunch and a talk from members of Hon’s Honey, a social enterprise dedicated to giving dignity and purpose to women survivors of trauma—addiction, trafficking, generational poverty, and abuse. Hon’s Honey is handcrafted in Baltimore by women survivors, with the healing power of love. Hon’s Honey is an employment program of a non-profit called The Well. Learn about the work these organizations do for survivors of trauma in Baltimore. All attendees will receive a free jar of Hon’s Honey and will be entered into a drawing to win one of three Hon’s Honey gift baskets! This Sexual Assault Awareness Month Event is part of a week focused on taking action to create communities that uplift survivors, and are not permissive of gender-based violence. Lunch will be provided. Vegan, gluten-free, and vegetarian options can be made available; please email Alyse Campbell ([email protected]) for dietary preferences.
Registration: https://jhu.campusgroups.com/CHEW/rsvp_boot?id=1951336