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Writing About Sexual Violence: Principles, Ethics, and the Question of Voice

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Writing about sexual violence is one of the most ethically complex things a writer can attempt. Whether you are working in memoir, journalism, academia, fiction, or arts-based research, the risks are real: retraumatisation, sensationalism, legal vulnerability, institutional backlash, and the pressure to become the “right kind” of survivor or storyteller.

This downloadable PDF offers a clear, practical set of principles for writing about sexual violence with accuracy, dignity, and political accountability. It covers content warnings, language choices, survivor-centred framing, and the dangers of sanitising harm through euphemism or institutional “safe” wording. It also addresses the limitations of “trauma-informed” discourse, the ethics of writing across class, and the specific challenges of arts-based and autoethnographic work.

This is not a guide to writing “carefully” in order to be palatable. It is a guide to writing truthfully—without reproducing harm, and without surrendering your voice.

Purchasing this PDF supports survivor-led research and writing.

Writing about sexual violence is one of the most ethically complex things a writer can attempt. Whether you are working in memoir, journalism, academia, fiction, or arts-based research, the risks are real: retraumatisation, sensationalism, legal vulnerability, institutional backlash, and the pressure to become the “right kind” of survivor or storyteller.

This downloadable PDF offers a clear, practical set of principles for writing about sexual violence with accuracy, dignity, and political accountability. It covers content warnings, language choices, survivor-centred framing, and the dangers of sanitising harm through euphemism or institutional “safe” wording. It also addresses the limitations of “trauma-informed” discourse, the ethics of writing across class, and the specific challenges of arts-based and autoethnographic work.

This is not a guide to writing “carefully” in order to be palatable. It is a guide to writing truthfully—without reproducing harm, and without surrendering your voice.

Purchasing this PDF supports survivor-led research and writing.