'Slut-up!' - Crossroad Women’s Centre prepare to join protest as backlash over cop’s sex attack remarks grows

CAMDEN women are expected to join the backlash sparked by a Canadian police officer this weekend by taking part in a “SlutWalk”.

Those preparing to protest held a meeting at the Crossroad Women’s Centre in Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town on Saturday. It follows similar action in Toronto last month in reponse to the cop who said women should “avoid dressing like sluts” to reduce the chances of being the victims of sex attacks. 
 

Elizabeth Head, 54, one of the Camden organisers, said: “This centre is the perfect place to prepare, because a lot of the women who come here regularly know the agonising reality of rape and its painfully long list of after-effects. 

“The mythology that clothes cause you to be attacked is absurd, it’s an inherently sexist idea – men, children, and the elderly are raped. So it’s not women’s clothes that are to blame, it is the rapist.”
 

Representatives from Women of Colour, Women Against Rape, Legal Action for Women, English Collective of Prostitutes and disabled charity WinVisable all attended.

Niki Adams, from the English of Collective of Prostitutes, has worked at Crossroads centre for more than 25 years. She said: “It’s saying that there are no ‘good’ girls or ‘bad’ girls, there is no divide between women, none of us deserve to be raped.”

London SlutWalk protest­ers will meet at Piccadilly Circus at 1pm on Satuday.

Pictured preparing at the Women’s Centre are Stef Radu, Elizabeth Head, who runs a feminist magazine, Lisa Longstaff, from Women Against Rape, SlutWalk organiser Anastasia Richardson and Kristin Aune, author of the book Reclaiming the F-Word.