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  Queering Sexual Violence seeks to confront the current state of the anti- sexual violence movement. It seeks to address the ways that some survivors are centralized and some are relegated to the margins. It works to magnify those of us who find ourselves defined by splintered identities and are often unable to weave all of these truths together because of mainstream dominance and erasure. This anthology will bring visibility to those of us that are rendered invisible by mainstream anti-sexual violence work, organizing and aftercare. Through critical and personal narratives, this anthology addresses the limitations of a society that is not only unequipped to deal with rape culture but is also unable to look at it without the lens of heterosexual privilege and through the interests of a gender binary system.

  
  

  Jennifer is a survivor of rape and a lesbian. She also identifies as queer. She is constantly motivated by how these cohabiting aspects of herself seem to be a point of confusion and contention for other people. Jennifer has participated in fundraising, was a volunteer rape crisis counselor at an emergency room in NYC and has advocated and organized on behalf of local anti-sexual violence organizations as well as individuals. She trained and worked as a group facilitator / community organizer for Project Envision, an off- shoot of New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault before leaving to focus on the anthology. She believes in the power of working with productive anger and from the center of our overlapping and often shared marginalizations. Her work was included in “The Survivors Project: Telling the Truth About Life After Sexual Abuse”.  She is the editor of an anthology titled “Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Sexual Violence Movement”.

  Photo taken by Alexandra Lauro