My project has formed into many different potential shapes, everything from a chapbook to a performance art piece, and I think I am falling in on the latter. In my Acting Studio class we have begun to explore work on biographical one person performance pieces in which I have been turning my own experience and history of sexual violence into a performance in attempt to turn the worst experience of my life into art as a method of healing. I would like to expand this into the stories of other women, and not just woman of my cultural group, women everywhere.
I was surprised by the statistics I found when researching sexual violence in both the US and Cuba. According to the UN Woman's global database on violence against women, Cuba experienced '650 cases of rape in 1996, 747 in 1997 and 664 in 1998'. In 1995 556,000 women experienced sexual violence in the US.
In cuba 70% of women received treatment and assistance after their assault. In the US only 23% of women received treatment.
My project is going to be a performance art piece where I read slam poetry written inspired by the experiences of both American and Cuban women. My goals are to give voice to women who have had theirs taken away and to contribute to the fight against violence against women.
http://evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/-/media/files/un%20women/vaw/country%20report/america/cuba/cuba%20srvaw.pdf
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fvsv9410.pdf
I was surprised by the statistics I found when researching sexual violence in both the US and Cuba. According to the UN Woman's global database on violence against women, Cuba experienced '650 cases of rape in 1996, 747 in 1997 and 664 in 1998'. In 1995 556,000 women experienced sexual violence in the US.
In cuba 70% of women received treatment and assistance after their assault. In the US only 23% of women received treatment.
My project is going to be a performance art piece where I read slam poetry written inspired by the experiences of both American and Cuban women. My goals are to give voice to women who have had theirs taken away and to contribute to the fight against violence against women.
http://evaw-global-database.unwomen.org/-/media/files/un%20women/vaw/country%20report/america/cuba/cuba%20srvaw.pdf
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fvsv9410.pdf
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