Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Research
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Shameless!
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Search
F31DB8AA-A866-47F2-A134-640BF62E7754 Created with sketchtool.
  • Home
  • About
  • Research
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Shameless!
  • Blog
  • Contact
Shameless! Festival Toolkit for Activism
Blog

Shameless! Festival Toolkit for Activism

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! Festival1111
SHaME team 27 November 2021
Shameless! Festival

To mark the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, the teams from the SHaME Project and WOW put together this toolkit with actions, resources and books to read.

Five things everyone can do to be Shameless

  1. Talk to friends, family, and acquaintances about cultures of sexual humiliation, abuse and consent and listen to what they think are important ways to counter it
  2. Be creative. Art, literature, poetry, film, performance, theatre and music have the power to change people’s minds
  3. Celebrate the achievements of girls, women and non-binary people, and explore the ways they (and their allies amongst all genders) have fought for better lives for everyone. Don’t be shy in challenging racism, sexism and all other forms of discrimination when you hear or see it
  4. Examine how many rape myths and ideas you have been taught to believe. Ask whether you are carrying shame or imposing shame because of them. Work to unlearn the bias you’ve been brought up on
  5. Write to newspapers or media platforms every time a report contains inferences of victim blame

Five things to emotionally consider

  1. How can I become more positive about creating a rape-free world?
  2. What are my spheres of influence and how can I work within them to make a difference?
  3. Have I been harmed by the sexist culture, and how can I help heal myself before reaching out to others?
  4. Don’t expect healing to be linear. It isn’t a simple upward curve. Don’t blame yourself further by feeling you ‘ought’ to have dealt with it by now
  5. Don’t internally minimise your own experience by making it relative to worse examples others have been subjected to. You are entitled to feel a full sense of anger

Shameless! Festival Reading List

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li

Flood by Clare Shaw

Little You byRachel Nwokoro

The #MeToo Movement by Laurie Collier Hillstrom

Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women by Helena Kennedy

My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose

Our Bodies Their Battlefields: What War does to Women by Christina Lamb

Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present by Joanna Bourke

The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivisan

Rough by Rachel Thompson

Screw Consent. A Better Politics of Sexual Justice by Joseph J. Fischel

Sex and Crime (Key Approaches to Criminology) by Alex Fanghanel

Sexual Violence in a Digital Age by Anastasia Powell and Nicola Henry

Supporting Someone After Sexual Assault by Mary Morgan – available to read at missmarymorgan.com

Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive by Sabah Choudrey

Teeth in the Back of My Neck by Monika Radojevic

The Trial / Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates

The Way we Survive: Notes on Rape Culture by Catriona Morton

What is Consent? Why is it Important? And Other Big Questions by Yas Necati

Shameless! Festival Schedule
CFP: Films on Medical or Psychiatry Aspects of Sexual Violence

Further Reading

CFP: Humour and Sexual Violence Workshop

20 Jan 202320 Feb 2023
SHaME team
Call for papers
no comments
The SHaME project is pleased to present a Call for Papers for our upcoming workshop, 'Humour and Sexual Violence', taking place online on 15 March 2023.

Reflections on Ecoar!

09 Dec 202220 Jan 2023
Rhian Keyse
General
1 Comment
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.

Laia Abril and A History of Misogyny

16 Nov 2022
SHaME team
Events
1 Comment
Curator Fiona Rogers discusses the work of artist Laia Abril in the context of how gendered violence and rape appear in the canon and spaces of art history. An exhibition of Abril's work is on display at the Copeland Gallery from 10-27th November 2022.
View all

Get updates from SHaME

Join our mailing list

Follow us

Supported by

  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy

2019-2023 © Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters Research Group. All Rights Reserved.

Design and Build by Playfields