Rad Social Media Campaigns for Changing Culture about Sexual Assault

Fill your social media feeds with original inspiration and information (in no particular order).

Love is Respect

https://www.instagram.com/loveisrespectofficial/

https://www.loveisrespect.org/content/lets-continue-talking-about-sex-and-consent/

This website is full of healthy relationship tools, quizzes and blog posts. They ask what’s the spectrum of healthy, unhealthy, and abusive relationships? You can even take a quiz on “Can Abusive Partners Change?”

For adults, they have useful tips and tools in their toolkit for high school teachers and middle school teachers.

https://www.loveisrespect.org/educators-toolkits/

Love is Respect organizes an annual respect week to raise awareness of teen domestic violence in February. They use the following hashtags:

#loveisrespect #TeenDVMonth #HuddleUp for #HealthyRelationships #orange4love #respect #love #datingwithrespect #datingviolence #datingabuse #abuse #violence #relationshipgoals #inlove #iloveyou #dating #loveis #selfie #me #healthyrelationships101 #unhealthy #friends

Catharsis Productions

https://twitter.com/CatharsisProduc

www.catharsisproductions.com/

Catharsis excels at media literacy and sexual violence prevention with a sense of humor. Their media feed features news and nuanced discussion of sexual violence issues. They make some great shareable images (see above), and mostly they write and share fascinating blogs that deepen our ability to address sexual violence.

Ok for Pets, not Partners

http://www.petsvspartners.com/

#okforpetsnotpartners

Search Instagram #OKforpetsnotpartners for memes about the difference between healthy pet relationships and healthy human relationships. You can make your own at http://www.petsvspartners.com/

One Love

https://www.instagram.com/join1love/

Twitter: @Join1love

https://www.joinonelove.org/relationships-101/

#okforPetsnotpartners is a project of One Love. Which has lots of healthy relationship resources for teens and adults looking to change the culture around violence.

New Mexico has a team of partners working to prevent sexual violence. Follow these organizations for interesting and meaningful content.

New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs (NMCSAP)

Twitter @endsvNM

https://www.nmcsap.org

https://www.instagram.com/nmcsap/

NMCSAP Instagram feed will inspire and inform you. They create important messaging about Anti-racism, anti-ablism, and the intersections of sexual violence with people targeted with violence. The Coalition also advocates for survivors and prevention legislation at the Roundhouse each year.

Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

Twitter @CSVANM

https://www.csvanw.org/

https://www.instagram.com/csvanw/

CSVANW is a New Mexico organization brilliant at educating about sexual violence prevention. Their social media feed provides prevention tips that are beautiful and helpful. They work on multiple fronts such as raising awareness of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, reproductive rights, mental health support, and community healing practices.

Solace Crisis Treatment Center

https://www.instagram.com/solacecrisistreatment/

https://twitter.com/SolaceCrisis

https://www.facebook.com/SolaceCrisisTreatmentCenter/

Solace Crisis Treatment center is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and they posts rad social media images and articles that draw attention to the role of power imbalances in relationships, intersectional oppression, and positive messages of hope and healing.

La Piñon (Las Cruces)

https://www.instagram.com/lapinonsars/

https://twitter.com/LaPinonSARS

https://www.facebook.com/lapionsars/

La Piñon has an incredible program partnering with local stylists, barbers, and adolescents as leaders in their community for sexual violence prevention.

Arise Sexual Assault Services (Portales)

https://www.instagram.com/arisesas/

https://www.facebook.com/AriseSAS/

Arise does a weekly coffee and consent video with their totally rad educators.

Community Against Violence (Taos)

https://www.instagram.com/taoscav/

https://www.facebook.com/CAVTAOS/

See our blog post about their process to prevent sexual violence on a structural level.

HEAL Plus NM (Health Equity Alliance for LGBTQ+ New Mexicans)

https://twitter.com/HEALplusNM

https://www.facebook.com/HEALplusNM

https://www.instagram.com/healplusnm/

HEAL Plus NM is a statewide LGBTQ+ Health Advocacy group working towards health equity. They have an online healthy relationship course for GSA clubs at www.healplusnm.org/squinch.

Sexual Assault Services of Northwestern New Mexico (Farmington)

https://www.facebook.com/SASNWNM/

SASNWNM has some incredible educators that make rad videos for you!

Tewa Women United (Northern New Mexico)

https://twitter.com/tewawomenunited

https://www.facebook.com/TewaWomenUnited/

https://www.instagram.com/aginmeansrespect/

Tewa has a youth program called, A’gin means Respect. It is designed to serve Native youth in Northern New Mexico that promotes healthy sexuality and positive choices for one’s life journey.