‘Dirty clothes’: intra-lively entanglements in a curriculum of sexual violence: Sex Instruction: Vol , No

Abstract

Politically expedient approaches to tricky information about sexual violence have incorporated instructional practices that produce conditions for ‘safe’ areas, this kind of as announcing articles in advance, result in warnings and other pedagogical practices that make treatment allowable and sleek out the sharp edges of violence that can knowingly invoke trauma. This paper is about the energy of curricular components charged with violence in educational procedures that are unable to ensure protection. I draw from feminist new materialisms to analyse the thing-ness of outfits in an artwork installation that was curated as a sexual violence avoidance curriculum at my college. I think about the outfits as mattering as the compound of have an affect on and imagined. The beginning issue is that pedagogies of affectively billed encounters in schooling make relations of hazard and fix with essential implications for victims’ and survivors’ awareness, memory and trauma. The aim is to issue the hope for pedagogical ensures regarding tricky awareness and have an understanding of what a lot more precarity might necessarily mean for pedagogical responsibility in sexual assault curricula. The paper concludes by looking at the curricular prospects of tough affective understanding for a kind of queer therapeutic and collective focus to sexual violence.