A woman stands in the middle of the stage with red paint covering one hand and a fake sunflower held in the other.

Bowling Green senior Emily Cooper delivers her last line during a rehearsal Monday night and then, smack.

She slaps her face, leaving her cheek bright red.

She smears the paint across her body to her hip.

Cooper is part of The Raw Women Theater Group, which will perform “I am a She: A Night of Reclaiming You” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday at the Gordon Wilson Lab Theater.

She said her piece is about how women think sexual abuse can’t happen to them because they aren’t “that girl.”

But there isn’t a specific type sexual abuse victim, she said.

“My piece is about ‘who is that girl’ because, in actuality, we are all that girl,” Cooper said.

The event is part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she said.

The show is free, but Hope Harbor will accept donations, Cooper said.

She said there are two pieces about sexual abuse in the show.

“The whole sexual assault awareness month is about speaking up and standing up and not being afraid to do that,” Cooper said.

Raw is a group of nine theater majors. They chose the name because they provoke raw emotions and break issues down to their raw form during performances, Cooper said. This is the group’s first performance.

Cooper said the women formed Raw after taking a contemporary performance class together.

Andrea Grapko, an assistant theater professor who taught the class, said the projects were often personal and performed with a combination of techniques such as dance and multimedia.

The Raw performance will be similar, she said.

Six members will perform pieces about personal experiences and three will be the stage crew, she said.

The theme is taking back your womanhood, Cooper said.

Louisville senior Emily Althaus practiced her piece chronicling her relationships during the rehearsal.

“I’m not really clear on the whole baseball/sex analogy, but I was pretty sure I was as far away from the bases as you can get,” Althaus said.

The other women laughed.

Cooper said that since women talk about relationships and body image a lot, they each choose a related topic.

Another piece represents how media affects female body image.

Nashville junior Molly Todd stands in front of a projector screen showing photos of ideal women, Cooper said. Todd was wrapped in fabric during the rehearsal.

As she talked, the other women pulled the fabric in different directions and then let go.

The release represents Todd realizing that she is beautiful, Cooper said.