Conference Talk
There is something profoundly strange about becoming the scholar of an archive created by your younger self. The girl wrote the diary. The criminal justice system read it as evidence. And now the woman reads it back.
Why Violence Is the Answer to the Rape Problem
Perhaps what frightens society about female rage is not that it is irrational. Perhaps it is that sometimes it makes perfect sense. Rage breaks the script. The compliant survivor asks society to save her. The furious survivor asks why society didn't. And the really furious survivor begins asking a much more dangerous question: if you cannot protect us from violence, on what moral authority do you demand our endless commitment to peacefulness?
We were groomed too!
In other words, when does an account of how people were manipulated become an account that inadvertently excuses their failure to act?
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
This project looks at school culture, gender, and experiences of institutional abuse and other forms of sexual violence—particularly the ways these were normalised, dismissed, or left unspoken. I am inviting former students to contribute their own reflections to help build a shared account of that time.
The Distance Between Their Story and Mine
It's Not Defamation Just Because You Don't Like It
Telling It As It Was: Violence, Explicit Language, and Truth in Feminist Life Writing
For me, not using explicit language feels like a betrayal of what my lived experience actually was.
You Can’t Write That!
Writing rules when writing about sexual violence
Valentines Day Love
With Love … Supporting our work for valentines day
Writing Rules
Writing rules when writing about sexual violence