What is the One Billion Rising movement?
One Billion Rising is the largest global campaign to stop violence against women and girls( cisgender and transgender), gender expansive people, and the Earth. Launched on Valentine’ s Day in 2012, the movement arose from the shocking statistic that one billion women and girls on the planet will be beaten or raped during their lifetime.
Since that time One Billion Rising has become a movement of yearly radical artistic risings around the world to confront all oppressive systems that intersect with gender-based violence, including patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, war, and violence to our earth.
From February through April, we rise – in countries across the world – to shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face and to celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable.
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