MADISON, Wis. –In roughly a month, students will take over UW-Madison’s campus again. Organizers at the Sexual Violence Resource Center want to make sure students can defend themselves effectively.
“Chimera is a program of empowerment, self-defense.” ”That means we want, self-defense to fit into other people’s lives and not have people change their lives to be safer,” said Natalie DeMaioribus lead instructor of Chimera at the RCC
“Other self-defense classes tend to say, you know here’s what you do.” But situations are actually infinite, they can be totally different.” “And there might be like if you learn A, B and C there might be something that keeps you from doing A and then you can’t and then you have nowhere to go right.” “Whereas if you are freely pulling tools from your toolbox, you can be like okay that’s not working. I’ll try this other thing, said DeMaiorbus…