And yet, e5m has found that our membership over the past three years has been ,like our audiences, predominantly female. It woke me up to what I felt was a responsibilty to keep male audience members from zoning out, to keep them from thinking e5m was just a raving hoard a women out to castrate men. It was never the case. I can honestly say that my time in e5m was the most influential time that I have spent in college. Rape is not a woman's issue.
Rape is everyone's issue.
Rape is not only sexual assault. Rape is social assault. The sad truth remains, nevertheless, that students and faculty alike would rather not hear that rape can and does occur on university campuses, our academic safe-havens. At Cornell University and at Syracuse University, putting reserach into perfomrmance through interactive theatre has had the effect of making the relevant facts and figures come to life, in a sense. It is a process of which reflects back to student audiences the harsh reality of the social cultures that perpetuate sexual violence and the silences that aid and abet.