Almeida-Amir, Maya, Sikka, Tina, ackhurst, molly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-5238, Cooke, Jennifer and Markham, Katie (2025) Exploring anti-carceral pathways to address gender-based violence in universities: a conversation. Feminist Legal Studies. ISSN 0966-3622 (Print), 1572-8455 (Online) (In Press)

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Abstract

This article is an overview of a Legislative Theatre (LT) workshop that was organised by the authors at Newcastle University in June of 2024. The workshop was aimed at both rethinking and reimagining the university’s broadly defined approach to and policies around complaint handling with a specific focus on instances and reports of gender-based violence (GBV). All of the authors are committed to enacting anti-carceral feminist futures aimed at challenging structures that cause harm and perpetuate racial and colonial violence. This is expressed throughout our conversation as we shift between the political to the personal reflecting a feminist praxis. These normative commitments are also reflected in our methodological decision to draw attention to our redactions of the comments we felt uneasy about including. Despite having consent from all workshop participants, this choice reflects tensions between privacy, harm, frustration, and care that persisted far past the day itself, and which speak to the ongoing pressures feminist researchers face when talking about sexual violence in the neoliberal academy (Godden-Rasul and Serisier, 2024).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sexual violence, anti-carceral, abolition, university, legislative theatre, creative methods, justice
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > Centre for Communities and Social Justice Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Law and Criminology
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2026 13:28
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/52034

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