Last night the easter distribution (for the Great American Condom Campaign) went off without a hitch! Myself and a few friends filled plastic easter eggs with condoms and slips of paper with STD facts. Then, wearing our Easter bunny ears of course, went around campus at about 3am putting 200 condom-filled eggs everywhere we could think of. We also gave out egss to people we saw walking around campus. Everyone loved it! Walking to class this morning I saw several eggs that no one had noticed yet but I'm sure they will be founf before the end of the day. I'm seeing and overhearing people talking about them and enjoying the little messages inside advotcating safe sex. It makes me proud!

Distribution Event #1 = SUCCESS!

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P.S. My basket on my dorm door has slowed in its need to constantly be re-filled. I think the students on my floor might have finally gotten their fill! :-)

So far my condom distribution (for the Great American Condom Campaign) has gone really well. On April 1st, I gave away about 150 of them at a Campus Women's Coalition table in the Union. At the table, we were telling people about the dangers of fake clinics. So many of fake clinics tell young women half-truths from old studies when these young women need real facts and help or Plan B or birth control or access to abortion.

I went to a fake clinic in Sioux Falls, SD, and all they cared about was if I was pregnant. I took their free over-the-counter pregnancy test and as soon as they found out I wasn't pregnant and asked if "I knew who the baby's father would have been," they were basically done with me. They didn't offer me STD information and when I asked, they handed me a stack of pamphlets on abstinence, second virginity, and how condoms don't work. The 'counselor' even assured me that "We in the medical profession don't worry about a missed period. Just don't have sex until your next period at least to make sure." She ended all of this nonsense with a prayer, thanking God that I was on my parents insurance, that I was a student, and for other things she read off my stack of forms.

All of the half-truths and them pushing their conservative agenda angered me. Vulnerable women need to know that fake clinics can't be trusted. So I took the Feminist Majority Foundation's idea and did Don't Be Fooled Day with CWC. I plastered the busiest buildings on campus with posters that said in giant letters "DON'T BE FOOLED! Come to the Union..." And it worked. We were able to expose these fake clinics and encourage people to use things that actually work - condoms, birth control, Planned Parenthood services, etc. 

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I've just typed up a little note to go with the condoms when I pass them out.