ABSTRACT
SlutWalk aims to reclaim the word "slut", by taking to the streets and demanding people begin to think about the way women are damaged by stereotyping. SlutWalk was conceived after a cop reportedly told a group of Toronto students that women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized during a campus event to address sexual assault, which he was invited to. As Trymaine Lee has reported, black, poor and transgender women are being disproportionately and systematically branded as criminal "sex offenders" on an online database for engaging in "survival sex" in New Orleans. SlutWalk has proven itself to be a maddening distraction from the systematic and interpersonal violence that women of color face daily. If SlutWalk has proven anything, it is that liberal white women are perfectly comfortable parading their privilege, absorbing every speck of airtime celebrating their audacity, and ignoring women of color.
