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Shameless! Festival London feat. Allison McKibban - Big Ideas
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Shameless! Festival London feat. Allison McKibban – Big Ideas

SHaME’s Allison McKibban presents her ‘Big Idea’ on academia, activism, and sexual violence at the 2021 Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence. Her talk is now available to stream on the Birkbeck Youtube channel with captions.

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Allison McKibban 10 June 2022
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Shameless! Festival London feat. Allison McKibban – Big Ideas

Inspired by WOW Festivals, these Big Ideas were filmed at the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence in London. Each Big Idea introduces you to thoughts and ideas from people you’ll know and those we think you should.

SHaME Senior Associate Fellow Allison McKibban joins Thuto Mali and Mamatha Isha Sumah to share her ‘Big Idea’ on activism, academia, and sexual violence. In this talk, she argues that academia and activism must be co-conspirators in the pursuit of a rape-free world, and researchers must actively consider their positionality and their relationships to the communities they research. 

The Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence took place on 27th November 2021, created in collaboration by Birkbeck’s SHaME project and WOW – Women of the World. The festival featured high profile speakers, survivors, researchers and medical professionals, alongside performances by incredible artists, poets and musicians, interactive workshops, ‘how to’ clinics, wellness spaces and more.

Inspired by and building on the work of SHaME, WOW and activists and academics across the world, the festival aimed to revolutionise conversations around sexual violence; burst open inherited ideas of shame; and give everyone the chance to say to all societies, enough is enough, sexual violence must end. A number of the day’s talks are now available to watch on the Birkbeck YouTube channel, with captions by Stagetext.

Allison McKibban is a doctoral student and Senior Associate Fellow for The SHaME Project at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests occupy the intersection of gender, law, and decolonising studies. Her current project confronts the ways in which U.S. federal policy utilizes settler colonial discourses to (re)produce sexual violence against Indigenous women. Allison also works as the Public Engagement Officer for the AHRS-funded project ‘What is Public History Now?’ She tweets as @AllisonMckibban.

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Reflections on Ecoar!

09 Dec 202220 Jan 2023
Rhian Keyse
General
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On 24 September, Ecoar!, the second Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Seeking to empower survivors in their healing, and to provide a call to action for urgent changes to professional practice and policy around abuse, the festival aimed to create a space to share perspectives and build ongoing collaborations. The SHaME delegation to Rio reflect on their experience.

Announcing Ecoar! the second Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence

21 Sep 202228 Sep 2022
SHaME team
Events
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On 24th September, the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence will take place in its second year in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. Called Ecoar! Festival, the one day festival will be created and presented by Redes da Maré, in partnership with SHaME and the WOW Foundation.

Global conversations about a rape-free world

24 Aug 202208 Nov 2022
SHaME team
Events
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On October 7th, SHaME will be celebrating the release of Professor Joanna Bourke's new book, Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence, published by Reaktion Books. Joanna will be joined by Jude Kelly CBE, Marai Larasi, Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh, and Maisha Sumah in a conversation between artists, activists and academics on boundary-crossing global approaches to creating a rape free world.
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