Question Oppression

Exploring the Connections Between Sexual Violence & Oppression Use these questions to explore the connections between sexual violence and oppression with staff, volunteers, or board members. Try discussing one or more at a staff meeting, in-service, volunteer training, or board retreat. They may also be helpful when developing or redesigning prevention programming.

Several authors make the case we need to shift towards promoting pleasurable and joyful sexuality. In what ways do you see forms of oppression directly intersecting with sexuality? What are steps you can take in your work to address these barriers for communities?

The Garfield SAAC described their goals to center intersectionality and explore power differentials in consent efforts. What does this look like in your prevention work? Are there ways you can strengthen this focus too?

Reproductive justice includes having the freedom to choose when and how to create a family and having the ability to safely parent and raise children, free from systemic and interpersonal violence. What connections can you see between this and sexual violence prevention? How can you deepen these connections in your own work?

Black women are disproportionately impacted by issues like maternal and infant mortality – how can our work to prevent sexual violence recognize and counteract these health disparities? How are issues like maternal and infant mortality explicitly connected to experiences of sexual violence? What prevention strategies can we design to meet this need and advance community-level prevention?

Our Pop Culture Corner encourages cultivating more opportunities for us to develop and practice critical thinking as it relates to media consumption. What opportunities can you take to explore how coercive norms about gender, sexuality, and race are replicated throughout our society?