NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 21 -- Delgado Community College issued the following news release:
October 21, 2026
The What Were You Wearing? exhibit is a powerful visual arts initiative that challenges
the stigma surrounding sexual violence and dispels the harmful misconception that
a victim's clothing somehow contributes to an assault. Delgado displayed their version
of the exhibit at the Student Life Center last week.
Created in 2013 and displayed at the University of Arkansas in 2014, the exhibit was
inspired by a poem by Mary Simmerling. The poem challenges the deeply rooted culture
of victim-blaming by addressing the question survivors of sexual violence are all
too often asked: "What were you wearing?"
A college faculty member suggested...