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Friday, April 29, 2016

W.A.S.P. -Heather Clevenger

I was very intriguing by the idea of W.A.S.P., or Women Against Sexual Predators, by creaters Ryan Mabry, Jasmine Guy, Jennifer Adair, Maya Donald, and Nadia Powell. W.A.S.P. is a website that is for rape victims to communicate with one another in a safe space. W.A.S.P. is for men, women and children a like and there are even different pages just for them.
Since black, white, old, young, straight, LGBT a like can be raped, W.A.S.P. haso created a page for all. While it is statistically that women get raped more than children that does not mean that they don't get raped.
W.A.S.P. wants to combat rape culture and the stigmas that come along with being raped and or raping in the American culture and teach people, not just men, that it is never OK to rape rather than only teaching women how to prevent their own rape.
On to the technology that WASP has created. WASP created a website that has five main pages with four off pages that are all easily accessible. They have a Home page, a Mission page, which hashould a drop down to their Contact page, a Prevention page, a Statistics page, and a Community page that has a drop down to their Donate page, Chat Rooms page, and finally More Programs page. Their More Programs page has links to their other two websites, Drone'so Dome, and W.A.S.P.'s Kids Korner, which are their websites for men and children who have been sexually abused. The children's website is for parents of children who have or the parents suspect have been sexually abused. it gives information with their pages, Welcome, Knowing When Something is Wrong, Parents Part and Learn Together.
Their rape prevention page has a few guidelines that everyone should follow.
be aware of your surroundings
be safe going out alone and/or while consuming alcohol.
watch your friends
make sure your intentions are clear.
speak up for yourself and for your friends
keep "backup" handy.
no means no
if a person is unable to give consent it's considered rape.

they also have chat rooms where people who have been raped can go and communicate with others who may or may not have similar experiences. it's a great way to get things off ones chest with people who understand what they have gone through.

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