April 24th, 2024 is Denim Day, a day where you are encouraged to wear denim in support of sexual assault victims. Denim Day began in 1999, after the Italian Supreme Court overturned a rape conviction on the basis that the 18-year-old victim was wearing tight jeans. The justices felt that because the victim wore tight jeans, she must have helped her rapist remove them and thereby consented to the assault. Since then, wearing jeans on Denim Day has become a symbol of protest erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault.
The CWA Local 1036 Women’s Committee is making a social statement by asking our union brothers and sisters to wear jeans or denim on April 26th as a visible means of protest the misconceptions that surround sexual assault. We hope you will join us in this act of solidarity.
