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An interactive panel entitled, “‘Rapey’ Songs? Blurring the Lines between Music, Politics and Rape Culture“, will take place as part of the Sexual Assault Awareness Week 2014. Participants will explore the strategy of identifying a song as ‘rapey’, the significance of such accusations when applied to songs by men of colour, and the ambivalent meanings that can be embedded in lyrics.
Tuesday, February 11
12:00pm | Room 482 MacOdrum Library
This workshop does not seek to provide definitive answers as to the ‘true’ meaning of any song, but rather to encourage self-reflection on our reactions to problematized songs, the assumptions we bring in our interpretations, the confliation of racialized masculinity and violence, and the strategies we choose in challenging rape culture.
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Prof. Ummni Khan (Department of Law and Legal Studies)
Dr. Rena Bivens (Banting Fellow in the School of Journalism and Communication)
Deborah Connors (PhD candidate, Department of Sociology and Anthropology)