Name: Militarizing Rape: Case Studies of Colonial Violence
Start: 2024-11-23T11:00:00-0500
End: 2024-11-23T12:00:00-0500

Welcome to Georgetown Day School’s 2024 Summit on Sexual Assault & Consent! This annual Summit brings together students, educators, and parents from across the country to learn and create change around the topic of sexual assault and consent. We look forward to seeing you there!

Saturday November 23, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm EST

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This presentation aims to discuss the concept of "historical amnesia" and the use of rape as a weapon of colonization by taking students through three case studies of colonial violence in North America, French Algeria, and Israel. At the GDS conference, it's important to talk about what it means to be a survivor, and the community, present and historical, that you embrace in your healing/life post-assault. There is an extensive history of colonies utilizing rape and gendered violence to facilitate their colonies and subdue Indigenous populations through trauma. Through discussing this history, we hope to prompt critical thinking about the following: Who are the survivors of colonial and genocidal sexual violence? Why are their stories important, and what does it tell us about colonialism at large? How do these colonial empires go about revising and rewriting these histories, and how does this remind us of our modern-day silencing structures and how they operate to perpetuate rape culture, protect rapists, and suppress survivor voices?

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