What is Take Back the Night?
Take Back the Night is a time to join with others to speak out against sexual violence, to build community support and care for all impacted, to organize for institutional change, and more. We strive to make visible the multiple forms of sexual violence as they intersect with racial, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist systems of oppression, and to recognize that all people — women, men, queer, trans, gender nonbinary — can be survivors, perpetrators, witnesses, bystanders, resisters, and healers in sexual violence. This year, we invite you to participate in storytelling, creative expressions, a rally, speak out, march through campus, and community support circles.

Call for Stories:
For Sexual Assault Awareness Month we are inviting members of the DePaul community to share their experiences with sexual violence. These can be stories of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault, and their intersections with various forms of oppression. We invite stories of hurt, survival, resilience, resistance, and healing. We invite stories of your own experiences as well as stories of when you've supported someone, cared for someone, acted as a witness, or intervened. These submissions can be in any medium — poem, letter, short story, visual art, etc. These stories will be collected and displayed as an art project for the event!

To submit your story (anonymously or otherwise):
Online submissions: go.depaul.edu/tbtnstory
Drop off submissions:
- The Cultural Centers, O'Connell 3rd floor
- HPW, Student Center Suite 302
- The Women's Center, SAC 150
- OSI, Student Center Suite 201
- College of Education, 2247 N Halsted St.

Take Back the Night Schedule:
12 - 5 PM: Art & Story Display (SAC pit)
5 - 5:30 PM: Speak Out (SAC pit)
5:30 - 6 PM: Campus March
6 - 8 PM: Community Support Circles (Arts & Letters 310)

With questions, please contact womenscenter@depaul.edu or srjdepaul@gmail.com.

We hope to see you there!