Shameless

SHaME team member Allison McKibban gives a behind-the-scenes look at her own experience in one aspect of planning the Shameless! Festival. She explains how safeguarding training not only helped her prepare for the festival, but also transformed her ways of thinking around survivorship and the intricacies of creating safer spaces. You can read more about…

The SHaME Project and WOW are excited to share the schedule for the first ever Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence at the Battersea Arts Centre on 27 November 2021. The festival schedule features artists, activists, and scholars covering issues including the normalisation of sexual violence, rape myths, consent, everyday triggers, and survival. You can check…

Professor Joanna Bourke offers a warm invitation to the Shameless! Festival on November 27th at Battersea Arts Centre. The event will bring together artists, activists, and scholars in a powerful and uplifting day of programming to confront the global crisis of sexual violence. You can watch Joanna’s welcome message on the SHaME blog.

Professor Joanna Bourke interviews academic and activist Dr Maryyum Mehmood ahead of her appearance at the Shameless! Festival. They discuss Dr Mehmood’s campaigns to empower women that combine the forces of academia and grassroots activism. You can read the interview on the SHaME blog.

The SHaME Project and WOW – Women of the World are thrilled to host Poetic Unity for ‘Safe Space’, an evening of poetry and spoken word confronting attitudes towards sexual violence and advocating for a safer world for women and girls. The event will feature four amazing poets; rising musician from Myanmar Phe Phe; spoken word artist…

The SHaME Project and WOW are excited to announce more amazing speakers and creators joining us for the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence at the Battersea Arts Centre on November 27th. We’ve brought in amazing artists, advocates, scholars, activists, health and wellness practitioners, and survivors for panels, workshops, and performances that will stimulate important conversations on sexual…

The SHaME Project, along with WOW, were delighted to launch the Shameless! Festival on Wednesday 27 October, at a reception hosted at the Wellcome Collection. We were thrilled to hear from HRH the Duchess of Cornwall who spoke inspiringly about building a rape-free world. You can read more about the reception on our SHaME blog.…

Tickets are now on sale for the Shameless! Festival of Activism Against Sexual Violence on 27 November 2021. You can find them HERE. We are also thrilled to announce that the festival will be taking place at the Battersea Arts Centre in Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN. There will be a full programme of events,…

On 18 August 2021, we were thrilled to announce that the first ever Shameless! Festival will take place on 27 November 2021. You can read more about this exciting announcement on the SHaME blog and the WOW website. We’re looking forward to announcing which major London venue the festival will take place in, as well…

In June 2021, we released a Call for Proposals seeking public engagement activities from academics working in collaboration with artists, activists, survivors, practitioners and others working on sexual violence from a medical or psychiatric perspective. You can find out more and read the CFP on the SHaME blog. We’re looking forward to sharing the Shameless!…

In July 2020, we were thrilled to announce that we had been awarded a ‘Research Enrichment – Public Engagement’ award from the Wellcome Trust to co-produce a series of Shameless! Festivals of Activism Against Sexual Violence with The WOW Foundation. You read more about the announcement and our enthusiasm about this ground-breaking collaboration on the SHaME blog…