Blog Eval (Sexual Assault)
I am going to talk to you about a growing issue which is plaguing the United States it is eating away at the very heart of our great nation. When we hear about this topic it is primarily known as women’s issues that some good men help out with. This is not a women’s issue this is a man’s issue, when we as men start to turn a blind eye we are just as guilty as the person committing the crime. The issue I am talking about is sexual violence, when given this assignment I had already been following a blog called Project Unbreakable. You see about six months ago I became a sexual assault victim advocate and I am nationally registered with the National Organization for Victim Assistance, although I work with military personnel I am certified to work with the civilian population. This essay is not only to evaluate a blog website but to ensure that the brave women who share their stories openly are heard and not silenced.
First let’s look at the writer of this blog and when she started blogging, the blog was started October two thousand and eleven. The writer of this blog is Grace Brown she is now twenty years old and is a photographer and public speaker from Massachusetts. Ms. Brown does extensive work with survivors of sexual assault, capturing them in photos holding a quote from their attacker. Ms. Brown has currently photographed over four hundred survivors and has received over a thousand submissions. The Project Unbreakable blog has between 13,000 and 14,000 followers and TIME magazine has named her blog one of the top thirty tumblr blogs to follow. Her blog is dedicated to empowering survivors of sexual assault by allowing them to reclaim the words that had been used against them by their attackers.
As you search through the blog you can see each Project Unbreakable image is that of a survivor who has written out the words that had been used by his or her attacker piece of paper. While the words on each survivor’s paper may vary, each one exemplifies how a
First let’s look at the writer of this blog and when she started blogging, the blog was started October two thousand and eleven. The writer of this blog is Grace Brown she is now twenty years old and is a photographer and public speaker from Massachusetts. Ms. Brown does extensive work with survivors of sexual assault, capturing them in photos holding a quote from their attacker. Ms. Brown has currently photographed over four hundred survivors and has received over a thousand submissions. The Project Unbreakable blog has between 13,000 and 14,000 followers and TIME magazine has named her blog one of the top thirty tumblr blogs to follow. Her blog is dedicated to empowering survivors of sexual assault by allowing them to reclaim the words that had been used against them by their attackers.
As you search through the blog you can see each Project Unbreakable image is that of a survivor who has written out the words that had been used by his or her attacker piece of paper. While the words on each survivor’s paper may vary, each one exemplifies how a
References: Grace Brown. (October 2011) Project Unbreakable http://projectunbreakable.tumblr.com/