# @ggxnews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-05-02T04:57:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Golden Gate Xpress (@GGXnews) — https://gondola.cc/GGXnews

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Various shades of blue denim flooded the campus on Wednesday as the Associated Students Women’s Center hosted its annual Denim Day event at Malcolm X Plaza.

The Women’s Center invited students to decorate a pair of blue jeans with affirmative messages outside the Cesar Chavez Student Center. The center also distributed products such as tampons, Plan B and pamphlets about women’s health services, including Planned Parenthood.

Denim Day originated from a 1998 landmark case in Italy in which a young woman was sexually assaulted, but the perpetrator was later acquitted due to the victim wearing “very, very tight jeans.” The chief judge claimed that “she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.” 

A decade later, the decision was reversed, but the case made a lasting impression on how sexual violence is perceived.

Denim Day falls on the last Wednesday of April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The day seeks to “reclaim denim” in order to combat the stigma of sexual violence, according to Women’s Center intern Marian Martinez.

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✍️ & 📸: Klyde Java (klydejava)

#sfsu #sfstate #associatedstudents #aswomenscenter

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