Trigger Warning: This months video looks at how high profile cases of sexual assault and rape has influenced the work of artists, and what they tried to convey with their artworks. Audience discretion is advised as some topics may be extremely triggering.

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Highlighted Sources (full list available here: https://youtu.be/7xmrRbetIhw):

Darcy O’Brien, Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers, https://b-ok.cc/book/2382031/0ca45e

Suzanne Lacy, In Mourning and In Rage, https://www.suzannelacy.com/in-mourning-and-in-rage-1977

In Mourning and In Rage Performance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idK02tPdYV0&feature=youtu.be

Lacy and Labowitz, Feminist Media Strategies for Political Performance, http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~mma/teaching/MS80/readings/lacy.pdf

Sarah Burns, The Central Park Five A Chronicle of a City Wilding, https://b-ok.cc/book/2269610/ba6e13

Lisa W Foderaro, ‘Angered by Attack, Trump Urges Return Of the Death Penalty,’ NY Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/01/nyregion/angered-by-attack-trump-urges-return-of-the-death-penalty.html

Carolee Thea, Sabine Women, http://www.caroleethea.com/archive/sabinewomanindex.html

Juliet Macur, Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html

Andrea Bowers, #sweetjane Exhibition, https://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2014/andrea-bowers

The Guardian, ‘Child sexual abuse in Catholic church was ‘swept under the carpet’, inquiry finds’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/10/child-sexual-abuse-in-catholic-church-swept-under-the-carpet-inquiry-finds

Thomas G Plante, Sin against the innocents: sexual abuse by priests and the role of the Catholic Church

Laia Abril: the photographer bearing witness to rape, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/19/laia-abril-epidemic-rape-abuse-photographs