Performance artist turned standup tyro, Truscott delivers an extraordinary comic dressing down of sexist comics and rape discourse.
It's so exhilarating to see the ugliness of rape discourse taken on, and bested, not with humourlessness or censoriousness, but with firecracker wit, sophistication and luminous humanity.
"The problem is not just the numbers of women who are getting raped but the discourse after the rape and the response of the state," said Kavita Srivastava, national secretary of the People's Union for Civil Liberties, who attended the protest in Rohtak.
In mainstream discourse on rape culture, many fail to make the connection between colonization and rape culture.
The image of the "perfect victim" has been intrinsically woven into our daily discourse of rape, intimate partner violence, popular culture and media discourse more broadly, yet we know that this image of the virtuous woman is a myth that was historically scripted for white women.
Speaking at a literary festival in Wales, she declared she wanted to turn the discourse about rape "upside down".
They can actually be made with care and imagination and serve to advance the discourse about rape culture in our society.
This article addresses the relationship between the evolving social, political, and legal discourses surrounding rape in India that permeated the attack and its aftermath.
This was probably engendered by the strong current discourses describing rape in Congo as a 'weapon of war' , thereby seemingly silencing rape by civilians or other forms of sexual violence (e.g. forced sexual experiences in marriage), which are described as 'everyday, and even boring' [ 6].
The view most commonly identified with feminism in popular discourse is that rape is a crime of "violence, not sex"—that is, a form of assault whose sexual nature is irrelevant, and which is analogous to other violent crimes.
When we continue an outdated public discourse that allows rape victims to be put in two categories, the blameless and the wanton, we take culpability off where it belongs -- on the perpetrator.
