Silence Will Not Protect Us - Virtual Symposium

We are thrilled to be collaborating with the Silence Will Not Protect Us Symposium: Sexual Violence and Power in Academia- the symposium takes place on Feb 25th (virtually, and in person in Oxford). Get yourself a ticket HERE, and you'll find us on the Symposium discord chatting books and offering recommendations throughout the day.

Silence Will Not Protect us foregrounds collective resistance as a vehicle for radical change, refusing concessions and mere reform.

Contextualizing these dynamics within academia demonstrates how complaint policies and procedures reproduce the power disparities that make complaints necessary, and the very societal hierarchies that make abuse possible.

When discussing these dynamics, their symposium addresses everyone whose labour contributes to academia – from students and support staff to administrators and full professors – and engages them in thinking about how the university works and for whom it works. Find out more about the program HERE.

We're proud to support these important discussions, and recomend resources to take these discussions further.

WIth that in mind, here are some reading lists curated alongside the Symposium organisers.

Readers who are too broke to buy books are welcome to use the code SPEAK-UP-SOLIDARITY at checkout and it'll zero the value of your basket, courtesy of unnamed friends who have paid forward book money for fellow readers :)

BOOK LISTS:

• SILENCE WILL NOT PROTECT US: POWER, GENDER & ACADEMIA
• IN HER OWN WORDS
• DESERVE KINDNESS: SELF CARE AS POLITICAL WARFARE
• ON BEING INCLUDED: BELONGING & EXCLUSION IN ACADEMIA
• HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE AND ACTIVISM
• BLACK FEMINISM: A CELEBRATION
• THE TROUBLE WITH MAINSTREAM FEMINISM
• POWER & QUEERNESS

This event must be booked through the symposium directly HERE.