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Spotlight On: Prof Aisha K Gill CBE
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Spotlight On: Prof Aisha K Gill CBE

In this edition of Spotlight On, SHaME’s Principal Investigator Prof Joanna Bourke interviews Prof Aisha K Gill CBE from the University of Roehampton.

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Joanna Bourke 10 June 2021
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In April 2021, SHaME Principal Investigator Joanna Bourke interviewed criminologist Prof Aisha K Gill CBE, who is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Roehampton.

In their interview, Joanna and Aisha speak about the pernicious aspects of patriarchy and its impact on girls’ and women’s aspirations, the intrinsic link between community-based activism and academic research in Aisha’s work, and how we can use education and an understanding of lived experiences to hold systems of power to account and demand remedies and protection for all girls and women whose lives have been devastated by violence.

Watch the video below to find out how you, too, can ‘build your own seeds of protest, and rage, and resistance against the systems you’re located in’, enable transformative change, and nurture and actualise your ‘hope for a better tomorrow’:

 

FIND OUT MORE:

Website: Prof Aisha K Gill Academic Profile
Twitter: @DrAishaKGill

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Rhian Keyse
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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

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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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