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On January 24, 2011, during a safety forum at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School located in Toronto, Canada, Toronto Police Constable, Michael Sanguinetti, advised students on how to prevent sexual assault. The constable instructed that ‘women should avoid dressing like sluts’(Millar 2011). This comment and the mounting public reactions sparked a protest called SlutWalk that quickly moved from Toronto throughout North America and around the globe. SlutWalk protests became infamous because protestors wore clothes that resembled the stereotypical image of ‘sluts’ as a strategy to challenge prevailing presumptions among law enforcement officers and the broader public: that women are raped because of how they dress (Figure 1.1). The goal of the protests was to illustrate the assertion that dressing a certain way invites rape. These protests also sought to shift the conversation away from victim …