In the 1990s, SAPAC produced a series of promotional materials to publicize sexual assault prevention activities on campus and to raise awareness and educate the student body. Posters, brochures, handouts, and bookmarks announced multiple SAPAC events, such as the Acquaintance Rape Prevention and Awareness Workshops, Peer Education Programs, and various activities for Sexual Assault Awareness Week and Rape Prevention Month. 

These materials offer insight into how SAPAC creatively approached educating University of Michigan students about sexual assault prevention and encouraged the student body to attend its activities. These documents also illustrate how SAPAC expanded its understanding about sexual assault and sexual harassment over the decade through changes in these published materials, which feature shifts in language and approach to addressing sexual assault prevention. In one instance, these materials feature a change in how SAPAC addressed and expanded the identity of sexual assault survivors. Through a transformed language of inclusion, posters moved from focusing on how women are targets of sexual assault from a male perpetrator to including forms of sexual violence between same sex partners and male sexual assault. There is also greater attention over time to how sexual assault affects minority groups on campus, including Black and Native American students.

A few of the posters for SAPAC activities include screenings of educational films. A selection of these videos are included in this archive under “Pedagogical Videos,” and are further indicated on the poster that features the title as an annotation. To view the archive of these selected materials in full, follow the link below to the next page.

Content Notification

These documents contain description of events leading up to, during, and after sexual assault and defines abusive relationships and scenarios featuring or refuting justification for sexual assault that may be uncomfortable to some readers.

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