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PACE Center
Creating a Safer Viking Community
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Decreasing violence on campus through outreach and advocacy.
The PACE Center is open to individuals of all genders in the ECSU community. The PACE Center works to promote awareness of cultural factors that support violence and to combat these factors in efforts to change cultural norms on campus related to sexual assault, relationship violence, domestic violence, and stalking.
The PACE Center continuously promotes the importance of consent in all campus communication, particularly with regards to sexual behavior. Consent is a clear agreement, expressed in mutually understandable words and/or actions, to engage in a particular activity. Both partners are involved in any decision regarding sexual activity.
Our Goals:
- Development of survivor-focused programming to aid victims of sexual assault and sexual violence
- Continued education of campus community members on the importance of consent
- Implementation of prevention and education materials for all incoming and current students
- Provision of bystander intervention training to campus and student leaders
- Fostering of dialogue among campus departments and between students, faculty and staff
- Raising awareness of violence against women through campus-wide and community-focused events
- Communication of the unacceptable consequences of sexual violence on the individual and the community to students, staff, and faculty
- Consistent review of university policy and protocol related to sexual misconduct and sexual assault
Consent Matters
Consent is clear, informed, voluntary, and ongoing agreement between participants.
Consent is:
- Voluntary
- Enthusiastic
- Informed
- Sober
- Ongoing
Consent IS NOT:
- Silence
- Pressure
- Intimidation
- Assumption
- Impairment due to alcohol/drugs
How We Help
Resource Hub
On-Campus Resources
Hotline and Apps Resources
- Albemarle Hopeline (24-hour rape crisis hotline) 252.338.3011
- National Domestic Violence Hotline (24-hour hotline) 1.800.799.7233
- National Dating Abuse Helpline (24-hour peer advocate dating abuse hotline) 1.866.331.9474
- National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (24-hour hour violence prevention hotline; dedicated to LGBTQ individuals) 212.714.1141
- One Love MyPlan App (tool for determining whether a relationship is unhealthy and for safety planning) Available for free download in iTunes App Store and Google Play
- Free Expression Hotline Number 1-804-993-4795
Reading Materials
Fiction
- The Awakening, by Kate Chopin – A short novel about a Southern woman with unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood viewed as a landmark work of early feminism.
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison – A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the emotional and familial devastation caused by slavery set in post-Civil War America.
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison – Written when Morrison was teaching at Howard University, the novel is about a tortured year in the life of a young girl in Ohio struggling with an inferiority complex about being black.
- Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, by Audre Lorde – A collection of political and non-political poetry by Audre Lorde, a radical feminist thinker.
- A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen – A play about a woman striving to find herself amidst 19th-century marriage and gender norms.
- The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin – A science fiction novel regarding the development of an instantaneous communications device in a fictional universe. If you are interested in science fiction and/or fantasy, le Guin has written a number of respected works in this genre.
- The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood – A novel about a woman who feels detached from reality and from herself following her engagement, and who begins identifying with food and becomes unable to eat.
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf, by Ntosake Shange – An experimental series of poems about obstacles faced by black women throughout their lives, including love, abandonment, domestic violence, poetry, and rape.
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood – A dystopian novel about reproductive politics set in a theocratic dictatorship of the future.
- The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton – A novel set in turn-of-the-century New York about wealth, social hypocrisy, and prescribed gender roles.
- The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros – A coming-of-age novel about a young Latina growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago written in vignettes
- Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi – A graphic autobiographical novel about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.
- The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant – A fictional retelling of the Biblical story of Dinah, giving Dinah a voice of her own.
- Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson – A novel about the assault and recovery of a high school survivor of rape.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston – A novel about the life of a woman in central south Florida during the early 20th Century. One of TIME‘s top 100 English-language novels.
- The Thing Around Your Neck, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche – A short story collection by a Nigerian author featuring stories set both in Africa and the United States.
- Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, by Sandra Cisneros – A short story collection about the experiences of women of Mexican heritage negotiating American influences in their lives.
Nonfiction
- Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, by bell hooks – An examination of the combined effects of racism and sexism on black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements in the United States.
- Feminism is for Everybody, by bell hooks – An analysis of feminist politics and theory of genuinely feminist politics.
- Gender Trouble, by Judith Butler – A work on gender identity feminism, and intersectionality viewed as some of the first work in queer theory.
- I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde – A collection of writings by Audre Lorde, a poet and radical feminist.
- Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules, by Anastasia Powell – A discussion of real-life experiences of young women and men negotiating love, sex, relationships, and consent.
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, by Audre Lorde – A collection of writings by feminist writer Audre Lorde on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class.
- This Bridge Called My Back, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa – An anthology of writings by feminist women of color viewed as the first major work of third-wave feminism.
- Women, Race & Class, by Angela Davis – A study of the women’s movement in the United States from the 1860s-present day that documents the racist and classist biases of the movement’s leaders.
- Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power & A World Without Rape, by Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti – A work on shifting the paradigm from “no means no” to positive consent, featuring a variety of perspectives on female sexuality and pleasure and on violence prevention.
Internet Resources
- http://www.avp.org/index.php The Anti-Violence Project focuses on ending violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected individuals. Their website contains many resources specifically produced for LGBTQ individuals and includes a lot of information on intimate partner violence in LGBTQ relationships. Their 24-hour hotline number can be found on the (link) Hotline Resources page.
- http://www.nsvrc.org The National Sexual Violence Resource Center, funded by the Centers for Disease Control, is designed to provide creative resources and scholarly research in a collaborative format to violence prevention specialists around the country.
- www.knowyourix.org A campaign aiming to educate college students (and educators) about their rights under Title IX. The campaign was begun by a collective of survivors of college assault and features information on Title IX rights, advocacy, grievance proceedings, and complaint filing.
- www.rainn.org RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) is the country’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. Their website contains an abundance of information on many different issues related to sexual violence.
- http://www.loveisrespect.org A website dedicated to educating individuals on healthy relationships and on how to handle abusive relationships. For a guide to safety planning, please see here.
- http://nomore.org/ The NO MORE effort is a nation-wide media campaign to end domestic violence and sexual assault. A number of major violence prevention initiatives in the United States are involved in the campaign, and it provides materials and information on a variety of topics related to sexual violence.
- https://www.addictions.com/domestic-violence-resources/ At Addictions.com their mission is to help individuals and families facing substance use disorders find the treatment they need. They hope that by providing a better understanding of addiction, and co-occurring disorders, they can remove the barriers to treatment many people face.