SAGE Week




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SAGE (Students Advocating Gender Equality) ran first for AUBG sexual harassment and assault awareness week from Nov. 18 till Nov. 22. The week started with the screening on Tuesday, Nov. 19, of “North Country,” a movie by the director Niki Caro which tells a story about the first successful lawsuit on sexual harassment in the United States. On Wednesday, Nov. 20, SAGE held a panel discussion on sexual harassment with AUBG professors. Filitsa Mullen, Didar Erdinc, Diego Lucci, and Dannie Chalk explained how to recognize the signs of sexual harassment, what consent is and what is not, and how to report a sexual assault at AUBG, if it happened. “Everybody has a right to have their bodies respected as well as their minds,” Mullen said. “We have to understand that we have the right to protect ourselves … and expect others to respect us as human beings, regardless of gender, regardless of age, regardless of ethnic, regardless of intellectual mental ability; we are all equal.” As professors pointed out, the most important thing for the person who experienced sexual harassment or sexual assault is to report to the respective advisers, at AUBG these are Filitsa Mullen and Diego Lucci. “Gender equality … is about the rights of men, and LGBT issues, and many other social issues which relate to gender,” said Dinara Urazova, a senior at AUBG and a member of SAGE. “This event is important because this hasn’t been done before at AUBG … this [sexual harassment] is an important issue; in order to prevent it, we should start talking about it.”
The last event SAGE organized was a self-defense workshop on Friday, Nov.22. You can see our photo story below:
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