Queering sexual violence
Subtitle: radical voices from within the anti-violence movement
By: Jennifer Patterson
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Riverdale, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781626012721
Subjects: Queer theory; Sexual minorities; Violence against; Sex crimes; Sex role; Sexual abuse victims; Prostitutes; Social justice; Intimate partner violence
Description: Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since it's birth. 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, gender self-determination, queer & trans liberation and prison industrial complex abolition through reflections, personal narrative, and strategies for resistance and healing. While 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 non-profit industrial complex.