NOT LIKE THAT, BUT LIKE THIS!
CAMPAIGNWe call on all elements of society to become a part of the solution to prevent and reduce sexual violence in Turkey as well as to increase social awareness about the matter. We have launched an awareness-raising action against sexual violence with Ayça Damgacı, Berrak Tüzünataç, Ceren Moray, Esra Dermancıoğlu, Hasibe Eren, Laçin Ceylan, Seyhan Arman, and Tülin Özen, who have responded to our call, grown our struggle and played an active role in social transformation, by saying not like that, like this.
From now on:
Instead of a pitying, victimizing, sacrificing, judging and embarrassing social language and approach while speaking about people exposed to sexual violence,
For an empowering, solidarist, and rights-based language and approach,
“Not Like That, But Like This”
For a language and approach that do not focus on the acts of the one exposed to sexual violence but on the responsibilities of the perpetrator and institutions, while speaking about sexual violence,
“Not Like That, But Like This”
In order to be aware that anyone can be the perpetrator of sexual violence or anyone can be exposed to violence,
“Not Like That, But Like This”
Instead of a language that aestheticizes and reproduces violence,
For a social perception that claims violence starts with the language,
“Not Like That, But Like This”
Because change will start with us,
“Not Like That, But Like This”
In the “Not Like That, But Like This” campaign, we have preferred to work with well-known public figures with their efforts to disseminate the truth instead of myths. They had a say about the issue, a gender-equal perspective, and reacted to rights violations. We have initiated a sexual violence awareness campaign with the title “Not Like That, But Like This” with Ayça Damgacı, Berrak Tüzünataç, Ceren Moray, Esra Dermancıoğlu, Hasibe Eren, Laçin Ceylan, Seyhan Arman, and Tülin Özen, who have responded to our call, bolstered our struggle and had an active role in being part of social transformation.
The messages on the campaign visuals were presented in two categories, one as myths and the other as the truth. We have collectively produced the slogans. We shared these with the participants and discussed them. We skimmed through the news headlines in mainstream media for the myths. We built on the common language used in the media and aimed at everyone understanding what we wanted to say after reading it for the first time. We wrote what is and should be as a response to these myths. We responded to the common narrative, “A well-established professor – there is no way he would do that, I would never believe that” with the truth: Anyone can be the perpetrator of sexual violence. One’s status, socio-economic situation, academic career, marital status do not mean they cannot be perpetrators of sexual violence. So we wanted to talk about this problem that pertains to the whole society by attracting attention to the false language used commonly in the media.
With this campaign, we call on all elements of society, especially members of the press, to be a part of the solution to reduce sexual violence in Turkey. At the Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence, we know that sexual violence can be prevented by the transformation of social perception and the language of media that feed it.
