Debate on Systemic silencing

titled 'Controlling our own words: Survivors of sexual violence speak out' .The authors begin with an explanation of Speak Out.This was a tactic chosen by the US movement of survivors of rape, sexual assault, and incest that emerged in the late 1970s with the determined aim 'to empower [one's self] through empowering each other' via the sharing of personal narrative accounts.Alcoff and Gray's commentary draws attention to some of the risks associated with speaking out, namely how a survivor's speech could be 'used against' them.They describe a media process whereby survivors are reduced to experiences of trauma, often analysed by a so-called expert, and how this process reaffirms notions of who is considered an acceptable victim and who not.This process, they argue, is a way for the dominant system 'to find ways to recuperate or co-opt such emerging discourses, and turn them to its ends or at least minimize their disruptive effects' (Alcoff and Gray 1992).Reading Alcoff and Gray through the lens of McGregor, we can see that this process is an aspect

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