Sexual Assault Awareness Month Materials Available in Mullins Library and Online

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Each April, the U of A recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month. University Libraries staff have compiled a list of relevant digital materials. Physical items are also available on display in Mullins Library on Level 4.

eBooks

• How to Defend Yourself is the story of seven college students who learn self-defense after their sorority sister is assaulted.
• The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America documents how rape has been and continues to be used against Native women.
• Parent Guides to Mental and Sexual Health: 5 Conversation Starters: the Sex assists parents in breaching sensitive topics like sex, pornography, sexual assault, suicide, self-harm, depression and anxiety.
• The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul aims to help ease the burden of overwhelm, restore perspective and provide strength to navigate what is yet to come.
• Self-Care for College Students: From Orientation to Graduation offers suggestions to tackle every aspect of taking self-care, from simple tasks to rewarding activities that might require more planning.
• I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope is about a young survivor telling her story of assault, justice and healing.
• Ways to Overcome Sexual Assault: How to Deal with & Recover From a Sexual Assault covers the meaning of sexual violence, prevalent symptoms, best time to get treatment, effective treatments, risk and exposure, medical conditions that are caused by trauma, some physical effects that relate to trauma, how to seek help and more.
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is about a journalist who is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for 40 years.
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others provides ways to stay engaged, hopeful, balanced and healthy when dealing with hardship, suffering and trauma.
• Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power & a World Without Rape teaches men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, asserts that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it and, ultimately, that it is possible to create a world in which rape is rare and swiftly punished.
• UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir presents the diary of an 11-year-old girl who was branded a "slut" by her classmates and bullied for years. Readers will see themselves in the story, whether as the bully, the shamed or the passive bystander. This book also includes advice and commentary.

Streaming Videos

• The Hunting Ground exposes sexual assault on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. The film follows survivors as they pursue their education and legal justice, despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback.
• Brian Banks is the true story of an all-American high school football star who found his life upended when convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite a lack of evidence, he was sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing in the NFL.
• Anita: Speaking Truth to Power is the story of Anita Hill, whose graphic testimony against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual harassment and power in the workplace.
• CATCH AND KILL: THE PODCAST TAPES is a six-part, half-hour docuseries on the whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and other sources surrounding Harvey Weinstein.
• The Central Park Five tells the story of the five Black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989.
• On the Record follows former A&R executive Drew Dixon as she grapples with her decision to become one of the first women of color, in the wake of #MeToo, to publicly accuse hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct.
• When #MeToo Hits Home provides a panel discussion of the questions: what mistakes do companies make in dealing with sexual harassment, pay inequity and other gender issues in the workplace, and how can they be best addressed to mitigate business risk?
• #MeToo Episodes 1-5