... Translated by James Swenson Sexual Violence at the Border Borders Violence explodes at the border between Mexico and the United States, revealing the corruption that is eating away at the city as do...

...Samia Vasa In 2002, the state of Gujarat in India erupted in extreme anti-Muslim violence. The sexual violence against Muslim women and girls was particularly brutal. Survivors bore witness not only to the violence and destruction but also to the intense sexual enjoyment of the Hindu rapists...

...Michael Dango A queer renovation of “rape” requires beginning not with actors, but with acts, which brings into view the central role of the state as a perpetrator of sexual violence. Radical feminists moved the “paradigmatic scene” of rape from the stranger in the alley to the acquaintance...

... of sexual violence in the absence of legal convictions or even criminal behavior. Both result in hyperpunitive policies that reproduce the state’s capacity to manage, regulate, police, and define what constitutes illegal forms of sex and illegal sexual subjects. This keyword will explore the constitution...

...Erin A. Spampinato This essay identifies what the author terms “adjudicative reading,” a tendency in literary criticism to read novels depicting sexual violence as if in a court of law. Adjudicative reading tracks characters’ motivations and the physical outcomes of their actions as if novels can...

... of breeding farms, unspeakable, unspoken acts of sexual violence, and suspiciously light-skinned household bodies counted as inventory rather than progeny, the essay addresses how this legacy of fear and loathing, of “in-law” and “outlaw” family lingers today, codified in and by our language as who gets...

..., always already shaped by (gendered, racialized, classed, sexual) power. This fiction of mutuality emphasizes the importance of the individual rather than structures of power, strengthening the logic of “he said, she said” in the aftermath of violence and once again leaving redress for harm largely out...

...: the sadomasochistic blur of sexuality and violence. In effect, she sets up an s/m scene of and for feminism. The self-flagellating reading pleasures of MacKinnon unsettle the relation between her dismissal of lesbian sadomasochism and her own s/m textuality. This is not to say that her argument is flawed...

...Jennifer C. Nash “Pedagogies of Desire” explores how women’s studies—a field that has long engaged sex as a space steeped in power, hierarchy, and inequality—has come to invest in affirmative consent as the sexual ethic that can produce sex as a territory free of violence. This essay explores...

... to offer not only innocence but repair. © 2018 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2018 Bill Cosby fans Kobe Bryant Michael Jackson sexual violence Nate Parker Twenty years after Anita Hill came forward to testify that Supreme Court nominee...

... : U of California P , 1998 . Merry Sally Engle . Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2006 . Mir Hosseini Ziba . `` Criminalizing Sexuality: Zina Laws as Violence against Women in Muslim Contexts...

... and political genealogy of these terms in the West is deeply implicated in the history of racism, sexual violence, economic exploitation, and power. In contrast to the active and intelligible principle of form, “mat- ter,” associated...

... of sexual violence and sexual harassment. That year, a case of sexual violence and relational abuse at msu had opened a Harper’s Magazine article, “Ending College Sexual Assault” (Kang). Local news outlets routinely covered the university’s struggles with cases of sexual violence, including high-profile...

... violence are vacated of these nuances, deployed to register unwelcome verbal sexual advances, the forcible violation of one’s corporeal edges, and the kinds of sustained, systemic sexual assaults associated with colonialism and slavery. While each kind of violation evidences harm, the extent and impact...

... the material dimensions (volume and capacity) of the hold of the slave ship but also the metaphysical violences that captive Africans underwent in the hold. Through poethical meditations on the hold of the ship, the essay offers Black holds as a practice of Black women’s sexuality. The essay concludes...

... folks medically unfit either to fight for the country or to be protected from the gender and sexualized violences that disproportionately target trans prisoners. Religious liberties bills make possible such minimal recognition of trans lives, that is, the base acknowledgment that trans people exist, so...

.... Walkowitz Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1992 . Walkowitz Judith R. “ Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence .” Feminist Studies 8 ( 1982 ): 543 - 74 . Warner Michael . “ Homo...

...—and continue to be—lynched around the United States under the state-sanctioned guise of white female sexual protection and preservation ( Wells-Barnett ). The normativity of sexual violence against black women not only engendered the formation of early twentieth-century black feminist activist groups...

... the concomitant pleasure (and violence) bound with the broader cultural repetition of blackness as itself a mimetic practice. © 2020 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2020 Bill Cosby black sexuality The Cosby Show mimesis mimicry pornography sitcom...

... that springs from understanding oneself as part of a fairly undifferentiated group (81). “All women” has been an undergirding premise of the #MeToo social media movement. Affinity springs from the idea that all women have experienced some form of sexual harassment, violence, or abuse. But the Pussyhat Project...