UnSlut: A Documentary Film

UnSlut: A Documentary Film

39 mins | Documentary | July 22, 2015

In 2013, seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life. The Halifax teenager had been gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "slut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Rehtaeh's is not the only story like this to make headlines in recent years. Why is the sexual shaming of girls and women, including sexual assault victims, still so prevalent in the United States and Canada?

UnSlut: A Documentary Film

39 mins | Documentary | July 22, 2015

UnSlut: A Documentary Film
In 2013, seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life. The Halifax teenager had been gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "slut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Rehtaeh's is not the only story like this to make headlines in recent years. Why is the sexual shaming of girls and women, including sexual assault victims, still so prevalent in the United States and Canada?
Producers The Unslut Project
Original title UnSlut: A Documentary Film
Directors Emily Lindin
Writers Emily Lindin

Cast

Njaila Rhee

as Herself - Panelist

Gina Tron

as Herself

Mick Foley

as Himself