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Join FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture for Hike for Healing -- a national movement of action to build consent culture. Participate by taking a walk or hike to support survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence on their lifelong healing journey. Funds raised will support FORCE’s newest programs, Ballet After Dark and Youth Voices for Consent, in 2020.
Ballet After Dark is a trauma-informed, holistic dance therapy curriculum that allows survivors to refocus trauma into triumph using ballet fundamentals, athletic conditioning and empowering mantras. Created for women (and those who identify as women), this unique PTSD ( post traumatic stress disorder) service aims to bridge the gap between trauma experienced and safe spaces for survivors to heal.
Now entering its second season, Youth Voices for Consent (YVC) is a paid, youth-led program for young people to discuss issues of power and consent while creating innovative consent culture campaigns through art and performance.
After completing the Monument Quilt in 2019, FORCE is looking to the future by focusing our efforts on the development of direct service programs, advocacy, youth leadership and projects that feature young people’s voices. Your investment made the Monument Quilt possible. With your support, we want to pay it forward and invest in survivor/victim programming and young people's leadership.
There are 3 ways to support FORCE through Hike for Healing.
WHAT YOUR DONATION MEANS
Beginning in 2010, FORCE’s work has had an immeasurable impact on creating a culture of consent. Our work created a culture where the phrase “You Are Not Alone” and “We Believe You” are common and where our friends and supporters are better informed about how to support survivors. Over the last 9 years, we’ve been creating a world where consent is a mainstream idea, and where survivors can connect with one another and organize together.
Join us now to fund the future of FORCE by investing in programming that turns trauma into triumph and helps young people envision what a new world based on consent can look like. Here’s what the funds raised will support.
In support of Ballet After Dark, donations will support
ORGANIZE YOUR HIKE
We will keep you updated with the growing list of locations here on the site. Join one, plan a hike/walk, or do a healing activity on your own! Email UpsettingRapeCulture@gmail.com to tell us about your meet-up so that we can share.
Founded in 2010 by and for survivors, FORCE is an art and activist collective dedicated to constructing a culture of consent. FORCE is an intersectional, LGBTQ focused, multicultural, pro-black and anti-white supremacist collective, who has done our deepest organizing work in Baltimore and Mexico City, and has planted seeds globally. We strive for our visual imagery, language, resources, and organizing strategies to have a local and global impact in our efforts to end sexual and intimate partner violence by changing social attitudes and connecting these shifts to policy change.
FORCE is best known for blanketing the National Mall last May with the Monument Quilt, a collection of over 3,000 stories by survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and our allies, written, painted, and stitched onto red fabric. Our stories literally blanket highly public, outdoor places to create and demand space to heal, and resist a singular narrative about sexual violence. Over the 6 years that the project was organized, we received coverage national coverage including CNN, MSNBC and Refinery 29. The culminating display was covered by Ms Magazine, the Marshall Project, Washington Post, and Voice of America.