ZebraDayCSA is a child sexual abuse survivor pride event on Friday 31st January 2025. Our theme for the 2025 event is building community.

We’re inviting CSA survivors, friends, and allies to come together for Zebra Day, a supportive online event focused on connection, creativity, and community. Here’s what you can expect:

Safe and Supportive Space

You’re welcome to join with your camera on or off—whatever feels right for you.
You won’t be asked to speak; live responses can be shared via the chat function, which will be monitored to ensure a safe environment free from hate speech or safeguarding concerns.
You can change your display name for privacy if you'd prefer to remain anonymous.

Accessibility & Wellbeing

Live captions will be provided by 121 Captions for real-time subtitles.
A wellbeing support person will be available if you need time to process or ground yourself; breakout room support will be explained at the start of the event.
Our events are relaxed spaces—feel free to engage however suits you best: camera on/off, lying down, moving around, or eating etc. We just ask that mics stay muted to minimise distractions.

Event Schedule

Welcome & Opening Speech: Viv Gordon will introduce Zebra Day CSA and the power of community.
Campaign Film Premiere: A collective film created by and for our community and allies.
Creative Showcase: Up to 15 CSA survivors will present their micro-commissioned works, including poetry, song, animation, photography, and visual art.
Moment of Reflection: A minute’s silence to honour our community and those who have not survived.
Collective Poem: Led by Viv Gordon, we’ll co-create a poem via chat responses centred around the Zebra Day slogan, ‘We see you’.
The event will last 2 hours.

We’d love to see you there—whether you actively participate or simply observe, this space is yours.

Why Zebras?

In 2023 we launched our ABC of CSA - a creative resource developed with over 40 CSA survivors to support better conversations about surviving child sexual abuse. The Z card is “Feeling like a zebra in a world of giraffes” which speaks to many of us about how we live our lives feeling different and are alienated in the dominant culture.

BUT zebras are brilliant and we think they are a potent image to celebrate CSA survival because:

Each zebra stripe pattern is unique reflecting the individuality of us as survivors
They travel long distances through often harsh terrain to survive
They know about community, understand the power of numbers and form superherds
The collective noun is Dazzle.

The event will be a space for us all (CSA Survivors and Allies) to gather, share the micro-commissions (both live and pre-recorded work) as well as the launch of our full video campaign, all hosted by Viv Gordon Company as a part of the Home Office UpFront Survivors Project.

Dazzle of Zebras: ZebraDayCSA Online Event

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