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Public Engagement

The Shameless! Podcast: Voices From the Festival

17 May 202218 May 2022
George Severs
Podcasts
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SHaME Postdoctoral Research Fellows Dr George Severs and Dr Rhian Keyse speak to contributors from the 2021 Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence about their work, their reflections on the festival, and their insights on creating a rape-free world.

Healing Hearts: A poetry film presented at the Shameless! Festival

06 May 202211 May 2022
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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Healing Hearts is a short film of poetry created by a young women's group from The Lighthouse Service in North London, filmmaker Sunnah Khan, Clinical Psychologists Dr Anna Churcher Clarke and Dr Isabella Girling, and Assistant Psychologist George Yerbury.

A Place for Anger: An Interactive Space for Survivors at the Shameless! Festival

23 Feb 202211 May 2022
Adeline Moussion
Shameless! Festival
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SHaME researchers Emma Yapp and Adeline Moussion share their experiences designing and facilitating the ‘Unpopular Opinions Workshop’ at the Shameless! Festival. The workshop provided a space for survivors to express their anger and frustrations, while challenging institutional and societal expectations of victimhood and survivorship.

'History Investigators': An Interactive Workshop on the History of Resistance to Sexual Violence at the Shameless! Festival

07 Jan 202211 May 2022
Ruth Beecher
Shameless! Festival
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Dr Ruth Beecher overviews her workshop, History Investigators, from the Shameless! Festival. The interactive session asked festival goers to delve into fact, myth, folklore and personal histories to build a timeline of resistance to sexual violence.

CFP: Films on Medical or Psychiatry Aspects of Sexual Violence

02 Dec 202102 Dec 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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SHaME is pleased to present a Call for Proposals for filmmakers to create films linked to the themes of medical or psychiatry aspects of sexual violence.

Shameless! Festival Toolkit for Activism

27 Nov 202117 May 2022
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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SHaME and WOW have collaboratively assembled an essential activism kit to mark the launch of the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence. From simple actions to recommended reading, we are excited to have you join us in the movement to create a world free from sexual violence.

Shameless! Festival Schedule

24 Nov 202128 Mar 2022
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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The SHaME and WOW teams are thrilled to share the schedule for the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence on November 27th at Battersea Arts Centre. The festival schedule features artists, activists, and scholars covering issues including the normalisation of sexual violence, rape myths, consent, everyday triggers, and survival.

'What's Missing From The Conversation?' on Trust: A podcast with researchers Emma Yapp and Aviah Day

17 Nov 202125 Apr 2022
Emma Yapp
Public Engagement
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SHaME researcher Emma Yapp is joined by researcher and activist Dr Aviah Day on the 'What’s Missing from the Conversation?’ podcast to discuss trust. The podcast is now live on Mixcloud.

Safeguarding the Shameless! Festival: Lessons from a Transformative Process

15 Nov 202125 Apr 2022
Allison McKibban
Shameless! Festival
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SHaME team member Allison McKibban gives a behind-the-scenes look at her own experience in one aspect of planning the Shameless! Festival. She explains how safeguarding training not only helped her prepare for the festival, but also transformed her ways of thinking around survivorship and the intricacies of creating safer spaces.

An official invitation to Shameless! from SHaME's Joanna Bourke

09 Nov 202101 Dec 2021
Joanna Bourke
Shameless! Festival
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Professor Joanna Bourke offers a warm invitation to the Shameless! Festival on November 27th. The event will bring together artists, activists, and scholars in a powerful and uplifting day of programming to confront the global crisis of sexual violence.

SHaME’s Joanna Bourke interviews Dr Maryyum Mehmood ahead of the Shameless! Festival

08 Nov 202101 Dec 2021
Joanna Bourke
Shameless! Festival
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Professor Joanna Bourke interviews academic and activist Dr Maryyum Mehmood ahead of her appearance at the Shameless! Festival. They discuss Dr Mehmood's campaigns to empower women that combine the forces of academia and grassroots activism.

Shameless! Festival Further Line-Up Announced

04 Nov 202101 Dec 2021
Allison McKibban
Shameless! Festival
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The SHaME and WOW teams excitedly announce more speakers and event details for the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence on November 27th. In collaboration with artists, activists, and scholars, the event will address issues including the normalisation of sexual violence, rape myths, consent, everyday triggers, and survival.

Shameless! Festival Launch Reception

04 Nov 202101 Dec 2021
Rhian Keyse
Shameless! Festival
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The SHaME Project team and WOW celebrated the launch of the Shameless! Festival with a reception featuring HRH the Duchess of Cornwall. During her address, the Duchess conveyed the importance of changing the culture of shame surrounding survivors of sexual violence. The festival will take place on November 27th at the Battersea Arts Centre.

Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence: Announcing some speakers and the location!

08 Sep 202101 Dec 2021
Joanna Bourke
Shameless! Festival
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We are thrilled to announce that plans for this one-day event bringing together activism and art to confront and change attitudes towards sexual violence are...

Date announced for Shameless! Festival

18 Aug 202101 Dec 2021
Joanna Bourke
Shameless! Festival
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Save the date! We are excited to announce the first ever Shameless! Festival will take place on 27 November, alongside a series of digital events...

SHaME @ Bloomsbury Festival 2020 Recap

01 Jul 202101 Jul 2021
SHaME team
Public Engagement
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SHaME researchers contributed two events to Bloomsbury Festival 2020, which took place 16-25 October 2020.
Beam of light against cement wall. Photo by Callum Wale on Unsplash

Spotlight On: Jon Bird

28 Jun 202129 Jun 2021
Ruth Beecher
Spotlight On
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In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Ruth Beecher interviews Jon Bird from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.

CFP: Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence

17 Jun 202105 Aug 2021
SHaME team
Shameless! Festival
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SHaME is pleased to present a Call for Proposals for public engagement activities for our upcoming Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, co-produced with The WOW Foundation.

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