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Gender Violence Edition Gender Violence Edition

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Content in this edition increases the voice and agency of people of color and their eperiences with sexual assualt and gender violence. Material may be especially triggering, please take the necessary measures to take care of yourself. In the back of this edition, there are resources should you want to seek help.

Gender Violence Gender violence includes rape, sexual assault, relationship violence in heterosexual and same sex partnerships, sexual harassment, stalking, prostitution and sex trafficking. The term “gender violence” reflects the idea that violence often serves to maintain structural gender inequalities, and includes all types of violence against men, women, children, adolescents, gay, transgender people and gender non conforming. This type of violence in some way influences or is influenced by gender relations. To adequately address this violence, we have to address cultural issues that encourage violence as part of masculinity. Sexual Harassment uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature especially by a person in authority toward a subordinate (such as an employee or student) Sexual Assualt illegal sexual contact that usually involves force upon a person without consent or is inflicted upon a person who is incapable of giving consent (as because of age or physical or mental incapacity) or who places the assailant (such as a doctor) in a position of trust or authority

Content in this edition increases the voice and agency of people of<br />

color and their eperiences with sexual assualt and gender violence.<br />

Material may be especially triggering, please take the necessary<br />

measures to take care of yourself. In the back of this edition,<br />

there are<br />

resources should you want to seek help.

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