Beyond Equality: Research to Action with Mary Morgan on Tackling Rape Culture
Seminar Friday, June 16, 10 AM BST
I am (beyond) excited to announce I’m partnering with Beyond Equality for a seminar this week all about tackling rape culture. In this session, I’ll explore how to use a combination of research and personal narrative to challenge rape culture.
The Beyond Equality Research to Action seminars connect researchers and activists to rethink and rework masculinities, deepen the fight against gender based violence, and build for gender equality. The seminars give leading researchers an opportunity to share their work, and open the floor for a Q&A session to deepen the conversation.
In this session, we will discuss how combinations of research, writing, personal narrative, and art can help change our culture for the better. Whether through writing, research, film, books, fiction, non-fiction, visual arts - the possibilities are endless. Through this work, writers, activists and artists can work to shift culture and eradicate sexual violence.
Read more about the seminar below and please come along to discuss such an important topic.
SPEAKER: Mary Morgan
TITLE: A World Without Rape: Combining research and personal narrative to change culture
DATE: Friday, June 16, 2023
TIME: 10-11 AM
COST: Free!
ABOUT: “Nothing happened.” Those were the first words Mary heard when she woke up in the bed of a colleague. Ten hours of memory had been wiped. The rape kit results proved what she had feared, she had been drugged and raped.
Sadly stories like these are not rare. Statistics show how common rape and sexual assault are. Justice for victims remains elusive. How society treats rapists versus victims is steeped in history, and many of our cultural norms are deeply rooted in our society.
But that can change. A world without rape is possible. Rape is a cultural issue, meaning that a rape-free world is possible. But how do you change a society that is so deeply entrenched in rape culture?
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About Mary Morgan
Mary Morgan is an academic, writer and artist who focuses on body politics. Her work uses a combination of personal narrative, research, history and theory to discuss a wide range of topics connected to body politics.
Morgan’s research and theory centers around the elimination of rape culture and rape myths at the roots, and how to change a societal culture that is deeply entrenched in both. As a survivor of rape and sexual assaults, Morgan uses her personal experiences as case studies in her research and work, both written and visual.