Final Project: Awareness to Domestic Violence

                                                      Awareness to Domestic Violence

https://awarenesstodomesticviolence.portfoliobox.net/

For my final project, I created a website to bring awareness to domestic violence. Domestic abuse, also called "domestic violence," can be defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure, or wound someone. Domestic abuse can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, or religion. I created different categories on the website to organize all the information I wanted my audience to have access to on the website. The purpose of this website project was to bring awareness to domestic abuse and give survivors a safe place and a platform to share their stories under a false name so their identity can be protected. In addition, bringing awareness to domestic violence can help women identify the signs of an abusive relationship before it is too late. I chose this topic for my project because many women experience abuse and are scared to speak up. Creating this website allows me to reach out to a bigger audience and encourage women to come forward with their stories once they see that other women have also shared their stories. To bring this project to life, I reached out to a couple of friends that had confided in me before with their stories and asked them if they felt comfortable sharing them with a bigger audience. Many agreed and thought the website would be a great idea. When the website "Awareness to Domestic Violence" was almost done, I shared the link with them, gaining their approval on how everything looked.This project was not only important to me, but to women who went through domestic abuse, so their opinion on how the website looked so far was very special to me. 

My website reveals the type of abuse women experience in a domestic relationship. Many people will come across my website and read all its information, and I only hope that they remember everything if they are ever in an abusive situation. According to "National Statistics," it states, "1 in 3 women have experienced some form of physical abuse by an intimate partner." This information is shocking because this only counts the women that have come forward; imagine all the ones that haven't, and the statistical results would be higher. A group of artists that I found inspiring for my project was the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), founded in 1987, a collective of five tactical media artists of various specializations, including wetware, computer graphics, web art, and film, photography, and performance. When I came across CAE, it gave me an idea of how I could bring my intervention to life using technology which helped me create a safe place for women to share their stories and have their voices heard.

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Resources:

“Effects of Violence against Women.” Effects of Violence against Women | Office on Women's Health, www.womenshealth.gov/relationships-and-safety/effects-violence-against-women. 

Fontes, Lisa Aronson. “Find Domestic Violence and Abuse Help, Information and Stats.” DomesticShelters.org, www.domesticshelters.org/. 

“National Domestic Violence Hotline.” The Hotline, 11 Apr. 2022, www.thehotline.org/. 

“NCADV: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.” The Nation's Leading Grassroots Voice on Domestic Violence, ncadv.org/STATISTICS. 

“Together We Improve Lives.” Center for Family Services, 26 Jan. 2022, www.centerffs.org/serv/domestic-violence-services.