num_pages: 288
description: Often pushed to the margins queer transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional violence against women framework the book is multi-gendered multi-racial and multi-layered. This thirty-seven piece collection disrupts the mainstream conversations about sexual violence and connects them to disability justice sex worker rights healing justice racial justice gender self-determination queer &amp; trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections personal narrative and strategies for resistance and healing. Where systems institutions families communities and partners have failed them this collection lifts them up honors a multitude of lived experiences and shares the radical work that is being done outside mainstream anti-violence and the non-profit industrial complex.
language: English
title: Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books