Take Back The Night

Tonight I volunteered at and attended a program called Take Back the Night! Take Back the Night is a program to honor survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. At this particular Take Back the Night, the scene is a large group of students around the Belk Tower. There is a resource table and a table for the Feminist Union on campus. It begins with a survivor telling her story of the many years of abuse in her marriage. Then with some speakers to discuss resources on campus. Resources including Campus Police, the Counseling Center, and the Student Health Center. As they are speaking, Luminaries all around the area are being lit and each person in attendance is receiving a candle and all of those candles are being lit for the candle light vigil. Then a man comes up to speak and has all the men in attendance come up to the front and make a pledge not to commit or condone violence against women. Amazingly the men make up almost half of the population in attendance. Then many other survivors come up and tell their stories. To conclude, everyone is brought over to the Garden of Hope and a moment of silence is taken to remember those who were killed from domestic violence. The whole thing was amazing, sad and yet inspiring that so many people could come together and work to end such a horrible phenomenon in our society.


Note: I made this purple because that is the color to represent domestic violence awareness.