Shameless

The SHaME Project and WOW are excited to share that the Shameless! Festivals of Activism Against Sexual Violence has been written up into a case study by the NCCPE, the UK’s national body for supporting public and community engagement across the higher education sector. The Shameless! case study explores how academics and arts organisations can…

On 24 September, Ecoar!, the second Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The culmination of several years of partnership work between the SHaME project, the WOW Foundation, and Redes da Maré, the vibrant one-day festival brought together creatives, researchers, activists, front-line practitioners, and members of the public,…

The SHaME Project and WOW are excited to share the official programme for the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, which took place at the Battersea Arts Centre in London on 27 November 2021. The festival featured artists, activists, and scholars covering issues including the normalisation of sexual violence, rape myths, consent,…

On 24th September, the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence will take place in its second year in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro. Called Ecoar! Festival, the one day festival will be created and presented by Redes da Maré, in partnership with SHaME and the WOW Foundation.

Six months ago, nearly 1000 people joined the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence. The festival sold out and we know not everyone who wanted to be there could be, so we’re really pleased to announce a number of the day’s talks are now available to watch on the Birkbeck YouTube channel, with captions…

SHaME team members Dr George Severs and Dr Rhian Keyse have created a series of podcasts in which they speak to contributors from the 2021 Shameless! Festival about their work, their reflections on the festival, and their insights on creating a rape-free world. You can find out more and listen to The Shameless! Podcast: Voices…

Healing Hearts is a short film of poetry created by a young women’s group from The Lighthouse Service in North London, filmmaker Sunnah Khan, Clinical Psychologists Dr Anna Churcher Clarke and Dr Isabella Girling, and Assistant Psychologist George Yerbury. The film was presented at the Shameless! Festival along with a panel discussion covering the background…

SHaME team members Adeline Moussion and Emma Yapp share their experiences of designing and facilitating the ‘Unpopular Opinions Workshop’ at the Shameless! Festival. The workshop provided a space for survivors to express their anger and frustrations, while challenging institutional and societal expectations of victimhood and survivorship You can find out more about Adeline and Emma’s…

SHaME team member Dr Ruth Beecher gives an overview of her Shameless! Festival workshop, History Investigators, an interactive session that invited festival goers to delve into the fact, myth, folklore and personal histories in order to build a timeline of resistance to sexual violence. You can read all about Ruth’s workshop on the SHaME blog.

Scholar, writer, artist, expert on body politics and speaker at the Shameless! Festival, Mary Morgan has written a blog for SHaME about rape myths, stereotypes about the ‘ideal victim’ and how these harmful ideas shape outcomes for survivors of sexual violence in their pursuit of justice. You can read Mary’s thoughtful piece, ‘Words from an…

The SHaME Project and WOW are excited to share our bespoke Code of Conduct, created for the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, which took place at the Battersea Arts Centre in London on 27 November 2021. The SHaME and WOW teams, along with specialist organisations, worked together to make the Shameless!…

As part of the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence, The SHaME Project and WOW worked together to create a special Shameless! Festival Toolkit with resources, books to read and actions to take. Whether you attended the festival or not, we encourage you to check out the Shameless! Toolkit on the SHaME Blog and…