Colorado College Student Organization for Sexual Safety - SOSS

04/03/2019

Spring Sextival: If you're part of any club or organization on campus and are interested in having a booth at this carnival-styled event, please read and fill out this form below!!!

Join the Wellness Resource Center, Planned Parenthood and our partners for our Spring Sextival, a rousing climax to the semester! There will be old-school carnival games with a s*xy twist, performances from musicians, burlesque and drag performers. Celebrate a culture of consent and community at Colorado College. This event is open to Colorado College constituents and the Colorado Springs Community; vendors and complimentary refreshments will be provided.

The goal of each booth is to have some sort of activity or game with the ultimate goal of a specific topic related to s*x. Some topics we want to include are consent, pleasure, s*xual exploration, body positivity, bystander intervention, s*xual safety, legislature surrounding abortion and s*x educat...

03/25/2019

Do you make stuff about s*x or relationships or consent? Submit your work for an installation!

Submit an 11x17 visual creation for the spring semester edition of the WRC’s Consent at CC Poster Campaign! Your submission could be a drawing or painting, a collage, a poem, a photograph, a print, even just one big word. The idea is to get as many representations of CC students’ experiences with consent as possible, whether in s*xual contexts or otherwise. All submissions will be hung in an installation in Worner for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Submission and questions to [email protected] or [email protected] by March 27 (1st Wednesday 7th block).

Artist: Ayangbe Mannen

12/13/2018

Tomorrow is the day! Today we are going to be discussing a very significant proposed change to the Title IX process:

Assumed Innocence of Perpetrators: This change would mean that the school would operate from the belief that the accused is not responsible or “innocent” and in a Title IX investigation and the victim would have to present clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. This would be a change from the current policy which puts both parties on an equal playing field with no assumed innocence.
For more information on opposing this and the other proposed changes go to: https://nwlc.org/respect-students/

12/13/2018

3 days left! Today we will be discussing the proposed change to Title IX involving mandatory reporting:
Reduction of Mandatory Reporters: Instead of all employees of an institution being required to be mandatory reporters (required to report to the IX coordinator when they have heard of or seen s*xual harassment or assault) a small group of school employees would be the only people responsible which would decrease the amount of reports immensely.
For more information on opposing this and the other proposed changes go to: https://nwlc.org/respect-students/

12/12/2018

Four days to go! As promised another proposed Title IX change, and a very significant one for our campus and all other schools of any kind.
Restriction to Academic Campus: This change to the Title IX would mean that any assault or harassment that occurred “off academic campus” would not and actually could not be investigated under Title IX. Particularly for CC campus, this would be horrific since this would include all events hosted at off campus houses, where the majority of assaults occur. In fact with national statistics, only 8% of reported assaults occur on academic campuses, which would mean the vast majority of assaults could not be investigated under the new Title IX rules.
For information on opposing this and the other proposed changes go to: https://nwlc.org/respect-students/

12/10/2018

Five days until Classy Christmas! As excited as we are to dance with you this Friday we also want to use this week to talk about the proposed Title IX changes and what they could mean for our campus. We will be highlighting five important changes Betsy DeVos has proposed and how we can all help to oppose them.

Change to the definition of Sexual Harassment: In the new proposed legislation, in order for s*xual harassment to be considered valid under Title IX it would have to be “severe and pervasive”. This is very concerning because this would mean harassment would have to be very detrimental to the victim, such as missing class or work, before it could be considered worthy of a report.

For information on opposing this and the other proposed changes go to: https://nwlc.org/respect-students/

10/23/2018

This Wednesday we will be discussing trumps proposed legislation which would mean erasure of trans identity in the legal and political sector. We will also be discussing concrete actions which can be taken against this by all of us. In the mean time: educate: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-s*x-definition.amp.html, and get furious.

Chase Strangio of the ACLU offers a call-to-action against Trump's transphobic memo.

10/01/2018

Have you seen the clothesline project outside of Warner? Do you want to learn more about and process your reaction to it? There is an event in the WRC at 4 that does just that! Hope to see you there