Book Launch

On 05 March 2024 SHaME is holding its final online event, a book launch for Challenging Conceptions: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation in collaboration with Tufts University.

On 20 February 2024, SHaME is hosting its final in person event, a book launch for Sophie Olson and Patricia Walsh’s The Flying Child: A Cautionary Fairy Tale for Adults.

On March 9th, SHaME will be celebrating the release of Emily Hunt’s new book, We Need to Talk: The Truth about Sexual Violence and My Fight for Justice, published by Mardle Books. Emily will be joined by a panel of speakers, including Alexandra Topping of The Guardian, barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman and SHaME’s Emma Yapp, for a conversation on the fault lines of a system and a society that is failing rape victims.

SHaME is collaborating with the V&A and Photoworks to create a programme of events in response to artist Laia Abril’s new exhibition at the Copeland Gallery, A History of Misogyny, Chapter Two: On Rape and Institutional Failure.

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.

SHaME is thrilled to host the official launch of Charlie Jeffries’s new book, Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the US Culture Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2022). Jeffries will be joined by SHaME’s Prof Joanna Bourke for a short reading from the book and a Q+A discussion.