Love Should Always Be Safe

  • As part of their campaign, Voices Her'd participants created a series of posters about teen relationship abuse.
  • The Voices Her’d team takes time to strike a pose, showing that its message will be heard.
  • These T-shirts were created during a screen printing day open to the public.
  • Groundswell converted its studio into a temporary gallery space to exhibit the youth artists’ sketches, research, and artwork.
  • Proudly holding their participation certificates, the team stands together by its posters.
  • One of the main themes Voices Her'd participants discussed was that there are many kinds of abuse, including (as depicted here) financial abuse.

Project Description

Young women participating in Groundswell’s Voices Her’d Visionaries program created a unique public art campaign in partnership with Day ONE to raise awareness of teen dating violence among their peers. As part of the campaign, the girls designed posters in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, screen printed t-shirts and tote bags, and hosted a blog, which outlined their research process and provided educational resources for their peers. The posters illustrated the different kinds of abuse experienced in negative teen relationships, including physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, technological, and financial abuse. These posters were distributed to Day ONE’s community partners and public schools throughout New York City. They are available online as well.

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Fun Facts

Research
Healthy relationships involve respect, trust, and consideration by and for the other person. Unfortunately, one in 11 young women report being physically hurt by a date during their four years of high school.
Fun Fact
The 1970’s and 80’s saw the development of radical women-run, peer-education based printmaking collectives around the country, the most notable of which included New York’s own Creative Women’s Collective and the Madame Binh Graphics Collective.
Research
According to Day ONE, women aged 16 to 24 experience the highest per capita rate of intimate partner violence, three times the national average.