Deconstructing Rape

Professor Tanya Serisier draws on her extensive knowledge of rape memoirs to craft her own narrative, inviting survivors to move beyond the constrained politics of speaking out to create a better cont...

3 Jul 20241h 4min

Pioneering feminist law professor, lawyer, political operative, and columnist Susan Estrich reflects on how grappling with her own rape shaped her life and work.

3 Jul 20241h 3min

Psychology professor Jennifer Freyd discusses how the unwanted disclosure of repressed memories shaped her research on betrayal trauma, institutional betrayal, and her policy activism to promote equal...

3 Jul 20241h 2min

Feminist philosopher Susan Brison discusses how surviving first an acquaintance rape while studying abroad and then a violent stranger rape in France shaped her theories of embodiment and the self as ...

3 Jul 20241h 4min

Linda Martín Alcoff discusses how she and other survivors come to understand the impact of sexual violence and deploys her philosophical expertise to deconstructs the espistemic injustices of philoso...

3 Jul 202457min

Psychology professor David Lisak discusses his experience as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, his research on serial rapists, and his activism on campus, in the military, and with survivors on de...

3 Jul 20241h

Political scientist Vanessa Tyson discusses speaking out against sexual violence, first against her father and then against Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax.

3 Jul 202444min