Rape Outcry’s Mission is to empower, support and raise awareness, particularly among students and young people, that rape is unacceptable so that the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators, potential-victims and rape survivors change to lessen the incidence of rape in our lives. The focus is...
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Rape Outcry’s Mission is to empower, support and raise awareness, particularly among students and young people, that rape is unacceptable so that the attitudes and behaviours of perpetrators, potential-victims and rape survivors change to lessen the incidence of rape in our lives. The focus is two-fold: mobilizing students to be more active within their institutions as well as beyond their student environments.
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Rape Outcry was founded as a non-profit organization by a South African student, Ms. Jenna-Lee Procter, in 2007 and has subsequently been supported by many other students at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Some of the organization’s activities...
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Rape Outcry was founded as a non-profit organization by a South African student, Ms. Jenna-Lee Procter, in 2007 and has subsequently been supported by many other students at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Some of the organization’s activities include a 13-week anti-rape poster campaign, 'No More Pussy-Footing Around,' which was conducted on the South Campus of NMMU from July to October 2007 under the auspices of the HIV/AIDS Unit of NMMU. The campaign focused on breaking the silence surrounding sexual abuse by encouraging students to speak out against rape. In March 2009 two students from NMMU, including Rape Outcry’s founder, started a support group for adult sexual abuse survivors which is still running in Port Elizabeth. In addition, a group of some 20 student-volunteers did weekly arts and crafts activities with children from a crèche in Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, through one of Rape Outcry’s projects, Colour my World.
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Currently, Ms. Procter is in planning an awareness and fund-raising event, in the form of an art and poetry exhibition in Osnabrück, Germany, which will be based on Rape Outcry’s second poster campaign, Do you see? The primary focus of this campaign is to move away from the objectification of...
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Currently, Ms. Procter is in planning an awareness and fund-raising event, in the form of an art and poetry exhibition in Osnabrück, Germany, which will be based on Rape Outcry’s second poster campaign, Do you see? The primary focus of this campaign is to move away from the objectification of violence to self-reflection of one’s own intentions and responses regarding sexual violence. Therefore, the exhibition is directed at raising anti-rape awareness by encouraging viewers to “look beyond the image” and relate to each other non-apathetically and respectfully. It is envisioned that student-activists-and-artists from all over the globe participate in and assist in organizing similar events as the campaign spreads internationally.
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