Sexual Violence and Intersectionality

What might sexual and gender-based violence and sexual harassment responses look like if we truly took into account intersectional and anti-carceral approaches? How might we best bring decades of feminist research, scholarship, and activism to bear on our responses to sexual violence and harassment?

Our research proposes intersectional, abolitionist interventions in sexual assault policy at the level of university campuses and beyond. How, we ask, can we move beyond punitive and carceral solutions that only perpetuate violence, and instead work toward justice?

About the Research

Research Projects

Survivors + Allies

Survivors + Allies, a UCLA student organization that advocates for and with survivors of sexual violence in the University of California system works to improve existing resources, services, and communications available to survivors, as well as to advocate for improved UC-wide policies and funding for additional support to survivors.

Defending Self-Defense

This community-based, survivor-centered research report identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions of criminalized survival.

INTERSECTIONAL AND ANTICARCERAL APPROACHES TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE ACADEMY

In her article “Intersectional and Anticarceral Approaches to Sexual Violence in the Academy” for the American Association of University Professors, CSW|Streisand Center Director Grace Hong discusses the center’s work on sexual violence. Hong asks:

“What might responses to sexual and gender-based violence and harassment on campus look like if we truly took intersectional and anticarceral approaches? How might we best bring decades of feminist research, scholarship, and activism to bear on our responses to sexual violence and harassment?”

SVI FACULTY WORKING GROUP

CSW|Streisand Center’s Faculty Working Group on Sexual Violence is led by the center’s director, Grace Hong.

The group is conducting research on campus sexual assault policies and Title IX, and will be issuing a report on how campus policy makers can best serve students, faculty, and staff.

2018-2019 POLICY BRIEFS

Addressing Sexual Violence, Reshaping Institutions, Achieving Justice: Shelter, Intersectionality, and Sexual Harassment Policy

For the 2018–2019 edition of our Policy Brief publication, we invited UCLA Graduate Students to submit work that answers the following questions: When the institutions tasked with providing shelter instead become sites of sexual violence and harassment, how should feminist policy-makers respond? How can we think of sexual violence as not a stable or monolithic category, but differentiated by citizenship, race, sexuality, gender, and class? What might an intersectional, abolitionist practice of policy making around sexual violence look like?