Instructions: For this fifth essay, please feel free to expand on your in-class writing, discussion board posts, and class discussion based on MODULE 10. Your essay should be about 500 words (2 pages double-spaced, in 12 point font). You can turn your essay in on Blackboard OR as a post on Open Lab. If you make a post on Open Lab, you can write in the text box or “Add Media” and upload your document. Make sure to select Essay #5 as your category for the post.
You can write in response to any of these prompts– make sure to be clear about which prompt you are using.
Prompt 1: Based on Anita or Out in the Night (or both), what do we learn about the process of speaking out or fighting back in situations of gendered violence? What do the victim-survivors say about their experience and how are their stories received– by their family/friends/colleagues, the legal system, the media? Where did they receive support, healing, or have their needs met? What does this show us about what is useful for survivors and what needs to change?
Prompt 2: Why do INCITE/Critical Resistance (and the signers of the statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex) believe that prisons are not the solution for gendered violence? What do they say are the problems with prisons? What are the limits of the anti-prison’s movement work to address gendered violence? What are the solutions that they propose? Where do you agree or disagree with their position and why?
