Thinking Gender 2020 - Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice

Friday, March 6, 2020

UCLA Carnesale Commons

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Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence. It will also feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, with Mariame Kaba, Mimi Kim, Emily Thuma and moderator Sarah Haley. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.


Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities. Organized by the Center for the Study of Women.


Co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center and others.

For more info and registration: Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice