THE FEMINIST SEXUAL ETHICS PROJECT INVITES YOU
“How Do Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Intersect with Sexual Violence?”
Friday, November 3, 2017
12:00–2:00, Reception Following
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Brandeis University
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Welcome
Lisa Lynch, Provost, Brandeis University
Moderator
ChaeRan Freeze, Historian, Brandeis University
Presenters
Angela Frederick Amar, Trauma Researcher, School of Nursing, Emory University
Bernadette J. Brooten, Scholar of Religion and Advocate, MacArthur Fellow, Brandeis University
Sarah Deer (Muscogee [Creek] Nation), Legal Scholar and Advocate, MacArthur Fellow, University of Kansas
In the U.S., sexual violence is racially charged. Such violence occurs in all communities, but differently in each. By learning about those differences and by working to create the conditions in which all victims/survivors know that reporting will result in justice, we can reduce sexual harassment and violence. Black and Native communities have experienced especially high levels of sexual violence since colonization began and slavery was legal. Today, Black and Native survivors rarely obtain justice under the law. The best strategies and solutions to this inequity will come from survivors from within each community. Religion can provide deep healing to survivors. In some traditions, however, religious interpretations can hinder survivors from seeing themselves as victims of a crime rather than as transgressors of religious modesty and sexual purity. Please join us for thoughtful discussion.