Aurora Murphy: Preventing Rape Through Performance: Australian Women's and Gender Studies Conference

How can performance prevent rape?

On-stage performance can help us reimagine what we take for granted. This blog looks at how performance can explore different ways to be a woman or a man, and negotiate relationships that are flexible, fun, and freeing.

I suggest that performance can be used as a tool in rape prevention. I look at how performative methods of rape prevention may build upon and develop other forms of social education that work to end rape, creating possibilites for different ways to engage in intimate relationships.

This blog is a personal, theoretical, and performative exploration of how performance can be used in rape prevention.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Australian Women's and Gender Studies Conference

It's day 1 of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies conference in Adelaide.
And no, I haven't actually finished my presentation yet...... (giving it well, tomorrow).

This uni (UniSA) is so swish, built all in circles, that I've spent half the day trying to make it back to the refreshments (I did)....