Writing Victimhood

Non-consensual sharing of intimate images, here called digital sexual assault (DSA), has been a heavily debated subject in Denmark over the past few years. In the polarized public and academic debate, DSA victims are often either subjected to victim blaming or portrayed as ‘broken’ victims with lit...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d2afb93afe0e4a93b45803acf224ca3c2021-11-29T16:53:05ZWriting Victimhood10.7146/kkf.v29i2.1248932245-6937https://doaj.org/article/d2afb93afe0e4a93b45803acf224ca3c2021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/124893https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937 Non-consensual sharing of intimate images, here called digital sexual assault (DSA), has been a heavily debated subject in Denmark over the past few years. In the polarized public and academic debate, DSA victims are often either subjected to victim blaming or portrayed as ‘broken’ victims with little agency and hope of redemption. This article presents a methodology for working with DSA victims to construct their own alternative and empowering stories of victimhood. Through an experimental methodology based on creative writing, I have included three young women in a process of collectively developing and exploring aspects of their experiences with DSA. With this methodology, I aim to combine activism and research in investigating DSA and actively supporting victims in constructing progressive stories of victimhood; stories that, as activism, work in opposition to oppressive discourses, and, as research, offer insights into complex experiences of victimhood. The article ends in a discussion of change as the prospect of activist research and experimental methodologies and concludes with a “manifesto for writing victimhood” stating activist aims that encourage and value social, personal and political change in and through research. Signe UldbjergThe Royal Danish LibraryarticleDigital sexual assaultImage-based sexual abusevictimizationactivismmethodsethicsSocial SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Vol 29, Iss 1 (2021)
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topic Digital sexual assault
Image-based sexual abuse
victimization
activism
methods
ethics
Social Sciences
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Image-based sexual abuse
victimization
activism
methods
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Signe Uldbjerg
Writing Victimhood
description Non-consensual sharing of intimate images, here called digital sexual assault (DSA), has been a heavily debated subject in Denmark over the past few years. In the polarized public and academic debate, DSA victims are often either subjected to victim blaming or portrayed as ‘broken’ victims with little agency and hope of redemption. This article presents a methodology for working with DSA victims to construct their own alternative and empowering stories of victimhood. Through an experimental methodology based on creative writing, I have included three young women in a process of collectively developing and exploring aspects of their experiences with DSA. With this methodology, I aim to combine activism and research in investigating DSA and actively supporting victims in constructing progressive stories of victimhood; stories that, as activism, work in opposition to oppressive discourses, and, as research, offer insights into complex experiences of victimhood. The article ends in a discussion of change as the prospect of activist research and experimental methodologies and concludes with a “manifesto for writing victimhood” stating activist aims that encourage and value social, personal and political change in and through research.
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