April 29, 2026 12:00 AM -
April 29, 2026 11:45 PM
$0.00
Statewide Event
North Dakota Domestic & Sexual Violence Coalition
The Denim Day campaign began in 1999 after an Italian Supreme Court case was overturned on the judgment that the victim was wearing very tight jeans when she was assaulted. The justices decided that the victim would have had to have helped the offender remove the jeans, meaning that the incident was not rape, but consensual sex. Enraged by the verdict, the women in the Italian Parliament protested this ruling by wearing jeans on the steps of the Supreme Court. Every year, we continue to wear jeans on Denim Day to protest harmful myths about why women and girls are sexually assaulted.
Read more about the history of Denim Day at https://denimday.org/
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