and 36% of adolescent boys reporting a sexual coercive incident.”7 • “Estimates suggest 13% of women and 6% of men will experience sexual coercion (unwanted sexual penetration after being pressured in a non-physical way) in their lifetime; 27.2% of women and 11.7% of men experience unwanted sexual contact.”8 It made Tawnya feel relieved to know that whether she found herself in a sexually coercive situation in a new or long term relationship, specific safety planning techniques and tactics were available through the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s website.9 Tawnya further learned that because she is a Black woman, due to the sexual exploitative mindset from Jim Crow, along with society’s denial of Black women’s victimhood,10 that she needed to get culturally-specific help to avoid future cycles of DV for herself. When she got home from the event, she went to cfirellc.com/ specialty, scrolled down to Survivor Support and clicked on “Sign Up” to learn how to end future cycles of DV by participating in Empowerment through the Arts™.11 I’m sharing Tawnya’s story during the month before Domestic Violence Awareness Month to help you embrace or support sexual safety in the following ways: 1. In a relationship? Make sure it’s healthy: Healthy Relationship Wheel Illustration. Or go to TheHotline.org, or Phone: 800-799-7233 2. In an abusive relationship? Talk to The Hotline.org to commence safety planning 3. Survivor and stable in your new life? Sign up for Empowerment through the Arts™; avoid future DV cycles: Survivor Support 4. Community member? In the month of September 2021, you have access to training to support Black DV survivors at NO COSTS. Call us at 515-428-0077 or email us at cfire2019@gmail: Awareness Talks & Community Safe Spaces 5. Want to financially support the work? Donate Here Blessings. #Permission By Courageous Fire DV Advocate & Founder of Courageous Fire, LLC Endnotes 1. Tawnya* is a fictitious, composite character, as well as the other characters in this story. Tawnya is used to demonstrate the factual material contained within this article. The characters’ attributes/demographics are taken from case studies, articles, and DV abuse definitions. 2. Sexual coercion definition: happens when someone won’t accept “no” and continues to try to convince you to change your mind about engaging in sexual activity. Taken from Healthline.com article, “What Does Sexual Coercion Look Like” 3. Sexual coercion additional definitions and facts National Domestic Violence Hotline article: “A Closer Look at Sexual Coercion” 4. Sexual abuse definition taken from NDVH article “Types of Abuse”: You may be experiencing sexual abuse if your partner has or repeatedly does any of the following: 5. Taken from National Domestic Violence article, “A Closer Look at Sexual Coercion” 6. Taken from VAWNET.org article, “What is connection between domestic violence, sexual assault, and reproductive justice and how does it impact Black women?” 7. Taken from National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine publication: “Predicting sexual coercion in early adulthood: The transaction between maltreatment, gang affiliation, and adolescent socialization of coercive relationship norms” 8. Taken from Domestic Violence Statistics on National Domestic Violence Hotline website: thehotline.org 9. Taken form NDVH article: “Safety Planning around Sexual Abuse” 10. Taken from VAWNET.org article, “What is connection between domestic violence, sexual assault, and reproductive justice and how does it impact Black women?” 11. Empowerment through the Arts™ is a program made specifically for Black female DV survivors of abuse at the hands of their male partners. It incorporates the healing empowerment of art, music, Black sisterhood, traditional therapeutic techniques, as well as guided discovery of predatory relationships planted within foundational learning. CFireLLC.com/specialty
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